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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2014
Funding group hopes to find success

Startups throughout Florida have a new ally in a frontline challenge: raising capital.

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  • August 1, 2014
Go wide, get a good deal

Male executives who seek in edge in negotiations — and who doesn't? — have a new answer: a wide face.

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  • September 5, 2014
BH Management, equity partner buy Sabal Park, Courtney Cove apartments

A joint venture of BH Management Services LLC and Highland Capital Management LP purchased the Sabal Park Apartments and Courtney Cove Apartments for a combined $38 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 28, 2014
The dude who turned down $3 billion

The story of the social media entrepreneur who turned down $3 billion from Facebook, Evan Spiegel, is no longer a hot of the press news item.

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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • February 10, 2014
10-month-old co. buys 93-year-old factory

That's right, Harry's, an online shaving retailer that focuses on “a great shave, at a fair price,” bought Feintechnik, a company that has been manufacturing razors since 1920.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 14, 2014
Accusoft buys third building, plans April expansion

The price equated to $108 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 4, 2014
Firms remain puzzled on health care

A recent survey found only 25% of human resources and other top executives nationwide believe their firm will offer heath care coverage for employees in 10 years.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 25, 2014
Life sciences gets play

The statewide association for the bioscience industry, BioFlorida, plans to add some beakers, and members, in the Sarasota-Bradenton market.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 9, 2014
Clearview Hotel Capital, William Harris buy Bilmar Beach Resort

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Clearview Hotel Capital LLC and Chicago-based William Harris Investors Inc. purchased the majority of the rooms, commercial units and all the amenities of the 165-room Bilmar Beach Resort for $16.4 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 10, 2014
Pentathlon scores hit in sporting world

'Sarasota-Bradenton is a very special area,' says one official.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 22, 2013
Score some business advice

Manasota Score, a mentoring organization for businesses with a stable of retired executives in consulting roles, has hit on two new ways to reach out to entrepreneurs.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 20, 2013
Fast-growth firm casts its line

The Gulf Coast has a new construction player.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2014
Commercial lease sales tax faces repeal

Florida State Rep. Greg Steube, R-Bradenton, will likely score some major points in the business community with a new bill he's proposed for the 2014 Legislative session: The elimination of a sales tax on commercial leases.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 10, 2014
Two Tampa apartments sell for combined price of $48.47 million

The combined purchase price equated to $78,805 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 18, 2016
Sarasota daily newspaper staffers seek to join union

The NewsGuild-CWA would represent about 40 people in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune newsroom.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2016
Firm pays back county on failed incentives

Entrepreneur Scott Gerber made the last of six $9,333 payments July 31.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 30, 2016
Shop around for deals

The blockbuster homebuilder deal of the year so far in the region, Lennar's $643 million proposed acquisition of WCI Communities, comes with a go-shop clause — and it might come to fruition.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 7, 2016
Feldman Equities is growing, hiring

In preparation for the development of a 52-story mixed-use downtown skyscraper in Tampa and potential acquisitions, Feldman Equities LLC has hired a handful of new employees in the past month.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 29, 2016
How the other coast lives

Christopher Roog recalls a time in the not so distant past where many communities on Florida's east coast were rather unfriendly, if not downright hostile, to businesses.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2016
PR pro to retire

Laurel Smith's first job in public relations was to haul a giant 6-foot-tall stuffed teddy bear to television stations to promote a charity.

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