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  • February 3, 2017
Center stage

New businesses play a big role in a thriving economy. How will two startups handle the inevitable obstacles?

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  • March 10, 2017
All in the family

Being a lawyer in the Robertson clan means knowing history — back to the Civil War.

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  • August 18, 2017
Local and Global

Desperation was an unsurpassed motivator for a novice businesswoman. Now Poonam Maini has more to prove.

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  • August 25, 2017
Real growth

Premiere Plus Realty, behind an unusual commission model, is pushing toward new goals.

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  • September 1, 2017
'Like a Bird'

Onetime private jet company CEO Todd Rome has moved on to cars — now being made in Southwest Florida.

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  • October 20, 2017
Ready to Launch

A young area entrepreneur seeks to stake out his space in training others how to use the get-it-done business tool of the future, and the now: drones.

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  • November 3, 2017
Floating Hope

Hope Healthcare plans to integrate medical uses and commercial space in 46-acre development in Fort Myers.

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  • November 10, 2017
Gourmet Goods

An entrepreneur with a 'find a way to yes' mindset seized an opportunity in an unfamiliar business. The move paid off.

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  • May 5, 2017
Taxing vacation get-aways

Being part of the Airbnb world brings special tax rules into play.

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  • December 22, 2017
For Good

A group of like-minded business women, in joining together, have raised the collective power of what it means to 'give back.'

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  • September 5, 2014
Run with it

An insurance executive ditched the slacks and button-down for a day in Spain with the world-famous bulls. It was the rush of a lifetime.

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  • February 14, 2014
IT evangelist

Despite big-name clients like Johnson & Johnson, the Department of Homeland Security and Cargill, Lori Sechio thinks there's more she can do to scale her Tampa IT asset management business. It's what she calls evangelism.

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  • May 16, 2014
Slam Dunk

Celebrity Auto Group has gone from less than $500,000 in annual sales to more than $20 million in four years. Secrecy is an integral part of the business model.

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  • December 20, 2013
Travel school

Annalisa Xioutas and her 10-year-old daughter, Eva, travel on business together. Corporate hotels today are more accommodating to busy executives traveling with children.

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  • June 10, 2016
Money makers

Selling the services of finding money isn't always as easy it sounds.Tami Wankoff makes it work.

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  • February 12, 2016
Always on

The search for employees at one security firm is in constant motion.

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  • February 19, 2016
Beat this

A high-end real estate agent with a booming career didn't let some dreaded health news wreck her plans.

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  • November 21, 2014
Pleasing the pooch

Dan thinks of his dog as his child, and believes she should be treated as such. He's launched a membership-based dog spa for people who think the same.

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  • June 12, 2015
MY VIEW | 'Patent Death Squad'

A stifling federal bill will be a “blow to patent owners and independent inventors” if it passes, agues a Tampa attorney.

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  • October 16, 2015
Gaining an edge

As office vacancy shrinks regionwide, landlords are undertaking improvements to keep or add tenants.

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