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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 9, 2025
Retired nuclear sub captain on how to reframe, remain 'super calm'

Oftentimes crucial leadership decisions are made with little foresight. There is a better way.

  • Leadership
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2007
Re-focus for Growth

The founder of GLE Associates narrows the company's market niche and partners with multibillion-dollar companies to jump-start its growth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • December 17, 2010
Positive Impact

A growing chorus of local governments are singing the praises of cutting impact fees, but curiously it's not all about jobs or the economy.

  • Florida
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • June 22, 2021
Developer's hyper-focus on land deals pays big dividends.

Cameratta Cos. prioritizes innovation in each community it launches, while also not neglecting its core focus: astute land deals.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 15, 2019
Medical device maker wakes up a bedroom community

Thanks to a $30 million investment by TouchPoint Medical, a subsidiary of Concordville, Pa.-based TouchPoint Inc., Pasco County, Florida, will receive an influx of 116 good-paying jobs and a division of a multinational company.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 30, 2012
Kaplan alleges how he was scammed

Sarasota real estate investor Marvin Kaplan has lost about $22 million in what his attorney alleges to be a Ponzi scheme involving Sarasota entrepreneur Larry Starr.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 16, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Tierra Verde developers buy Bongos restaurantOwner buys final piece of St. Armands PharmacyStarling buys land, sells to HealthSouthCircle K Corp. purchased, sells three Bradenton stores

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • September 17, 2009
Power Grab

Regulating reductions in greenhouse gas emissions puts more control of energy markets in the hands of government in a mandated “market”-based cap-and-trade system.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 26, 2010
Dreams With Teeth

A bold group of entrepreneurs hopes to take a big bite out of an even bigger market. Plans include going from 20 to 280 employees in five years.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 23, 2010
Sports Craze

Sports facilities, businesses and teams have become highly prized trophies of local economic development efforts and more than just a seasonal tourist attraction. More new facilities are on track.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 23, 2011
Own the Market

A medical supply-buying cooperative that delivers market share for medical manufacturers translates to big savings for some hospitals on the Gulf Coast.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 13, 2012
Sign of the Times

Jamie Harden was only two years into running his own business, a 100 employee-firm, when the downturn forced him to transform the company. It was tougher than he thought, but now he can see success.

  • Strategies
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • October 12, 2018
Company credits growth to ESOP structure

B&I Contracting ESOP double-digit growth

  • Strategies
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  • By Ted Carter |
  • November 11, 2016
Go young

Less than 5% of millennials seek a career in insurance, according to one survey. But the industry is attacking the issue with vigor.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • February 7, 2024
Entrepreneurs aim to thwart Haines City’s food truck ban

Haines City delayed a reading and potential vote on a proposed ordinance banning food trucks after a public interest law firm argued that the ban violates Florida law.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • November 12, 2010
Celebration Service

Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes are trying new methods to help families through the mourning process. Customers have responded well, despite criticism from industry peers.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 6, 2013
Signs of the Times

A $20 million business doubled its sales force and revenues in three years. Success, though, couldn't have come without one tool: a phone.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 12, 2012
Good Vision

Retina Health Center in Fort Myers is an incubator of new ideas to make medicine better for patients.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 25, 2020
Industrial Juggernaut

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic — or perhaps even because of it — distribution space in along the Interstate 4 corridor is flourishing

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 7, 2014
Get a Dell, dude

A Gulf Coast technology hardware firm is on a five-year growth surge. It's a long way from selling computer servers out of a backyard shed.

  • Strategies
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