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  • October 10, 2024
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40 Under 40 winner Caitlyn Cobb is the owner at Star Academy of Dance & Aerial Arts.

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  • August 26, 2022
Multitalented entrepreneur works to create brighter futures for kids, adults

Yvonne Fry has been a force for economic good in Plant City, the hometown that she once wanted to leave behind forever.

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  • February 28, 2014
Flex casual

Naples Flatbread promises an efficient and flexible operation to franchisees. It took Ralph Desiano five years to perfect the concept.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • April 18, 2023
$435M Sarasota nonprofit plans relocation to Tampa

CAN Community Health has been headquartered in Sarasota since 2018.

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  • January 23, 2023
Housing affordability lingers in Gas Plant neighborhood project decision

St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch will be choosing from among four bidding entities to redevelop the Gas Plant site.

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  • November 8, 2019
Home sweet (vacation) home

Annual real estate report reveals higher demand for second homes, increasing prices

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  • July 6, 2007
The Capitalist

Our survival is not automatic. What we do will determine that.

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  • September 22, 2006
New regulations could hurt banks

Gulf Coast community bankers protest federal regulators' proposal to limit commercial real estate loans.

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  • February 4, 2005
Coming Home from Homeland Security

A former top federal prosecutor explains her new role in the American national-security apparatus.

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  • January 6, 2006
Mr. Channelside

A Miami native who has lived in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Buffalo is creating a buzz as the unofficial spokesman for Tampa's Channel District.

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  • May 7, 2006
Job Jitters

A worker shortage is coming, author Steve Gunderson says. Executives and entrepreneurs need to make sure staff, both current and future, are well educated.

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  • May 15, 2008
TO WATCH (Tampa Bay): Mihir Taneja

Mihir Taneja, 33, is chief executive officer with GeoPharma, a Largo pharmaceutical and health care products company. He started GeoPharma out of college, with five employees in 1995 in Brandon.

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  • May 1, 2009
Bank regulators in deep denial

Regulators don't have to deny anyone's right to open a new bank. Apparently, all they have to do is give you the big run-around and hope you go away.

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  • September 24, 2004
Deciphering the Attribute Index

What is the key to successful business excellence? asks Stephen Garber, who lives and works in the Sarasota area, provides executive coaching for individuals and organizations to enable them to select, retain and develop performance champions.

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  • November 19, 2004
Art of Persuasion

eBeltway sniperi lawyer Peter D. Greenspun discussed his defense of a killer at a seminar for Tampa Bay area lawyers.

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  • January 9, 2013
Diagnosing Your Car

Carvoyant hopes drivers, auto dealers and repair shops will adopt its system, which could bring in thousands of new data customers.

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  • October 7, 2011
Software Savvy

David Romine took a big risk when he left a 'Big Five' accounting firm to start his own company. That bet has paid off.

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  • October 7, 2011
True Patriot

Lori Larsen served eight years in the Army. Seeing opportunity in the private sector, she entered the corporate world.

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  • August 23, 2013
Who's listening?

A company in Fort Myers mines 100,000 phone calls a day for large corporations, helping them gauge customers' satisfaction.

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  • September 14, 2012
Hot Pursuit

The biggest bank in the country had a teeny tiny presence in Florida five years ago. Times have changed, and now Chase Bank aims for statewide prominence.

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