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  • By Denise Federer |
  • December 9, 2016
Do you need an advisory board?

Even experienced CEOs need an outside perspective from time to time. Forming a panel of trusted professionals can help keep your family business on track.

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  • February 3, 2017
Study hall

Teaching leaders leadership can be a difficult, and crammed, undertaking. Two coaches believe they discovered a way through the clutter.

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  • April 28, 2017
The Right Note

With listeners in 125 countries, Bruce Wawrzyniak believes his popular podcast can be much more than a marketing tool.

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  • By Brian Steiner |
  • November 10, 2017
Stay on Course

A GE Aviation plant tucked away in Pinellas County has gone high-tech with its latest products to help pilots navigate better.

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  • May 26, 2017
School's in

A Cape Coral firm took on the challenge of developing a better workforce with vigor. Its efforts have paid big dividends.

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  • June 30, 2017
How to avoid the next real estate bubble

The market is doing fine. But one government proposal might turn fine into a fiasco.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 23, 2018
Street Smarts

The way to one billionaire's heart, and to get hired for his transformative urban renewal project, is to deftly combine high aptitude with the right attitude.

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  • August 29, 2014
A Wise Move

A longtime florist raises his ante in the event planning business. He has good vibes about the high-cost project.

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  • March 21, 2014
Have metal

In fast-growth mode, Fusion Welding is ready to take on some serious work. But a lack of skilled labor continues to limit its expansion.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • November 1, 2013
Gambling gamers

Former Raymond James IT wiz Landon Bass says he knows nothing about video games. That didn't stop him from joining a company to build an online fantasy league for gamers.

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  • November 8, 2013
Marina at Edison Ford

Royal Palm Marina purchase and conversion into Marina at Edison Ford

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  • July 15, 2016
Pizza man

Dan Bavaro is a street-smart entrepreneur with an amateur boxer's toughness. His current fight is to seize growth at the right pace.

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  • August 30, 2016
Roofing firm spurned in Sarasota lands in Tampa

North American Roofing Co. plans to move its corporate headquarters from North Carolina to Tampa.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 27, 2016
Office space

Endeavor Innovative Workspaces combines private offices with open co-work space in an industrial park.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 1, 2016
Open up

Fifteen CEOs descended on Progressive Builders in April to give the company advice on how to better run the business. Mike Spreckelmeier took it well.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 29, 2016
Pay up

Technology entrepreneur Keith Stone says reinvesting profits into his company and encouraging employees to be entrepreneurial keeps CSI Enterprises growing fast.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 25, 2016
Switch Carrs

Michael Carr Jr. takes over the management of the Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT office in Southwest Florida from his father and plans to boost its presence in Lee County.

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  • By Michael Hinman |
  • June 19, 2015
Venture awaits

Who needs Silicon Valley? Ballast Point Ventures find success far from venture capital hot spots.

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  • June 19, 2015
Record setter

NorthStar Healthcare Income's $93 million senior housing purchase ranks as the top sale in Sarasota County's history.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • August 21, 2015
How to ... Sell your business

Joy Randels is an expert in buying and selling businesses.

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