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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2008
Bloomin good business

Entrepreneur Ruth Doroslovac has started small but wants tomake Flowers to Eat a nationally franchised food products company.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 6, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: former real estate development lawyer Cynthia Henderson faces repeated grilling Fifth Third Corp. has paid the highest premium for an American bank since the beginning of last year Unfounded complaints

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 17, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: William Monroe has raised more concerns about how state court officials assess and collect fees and fines.Tampa Courts fall for Ivan tractPassengers, airline seek protection

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2004
AD Confusion

For haters of lawyer advertising, Stetson University adjunct law professor Susan S. Demers says it could be worse in Florida. With some of the most restrictive rules on lawyer advertising in the country, the Sunshine State could be metropolitan New York.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
YP: Marc Blumenthal of Intelladon Corp. Tampa

USINESSProfile: Tampa's Intelladon Corp. offers online learning to corporate customers, government organizations and non-profits. Company founder Scott Gostyla designed the company's main asset, a software program called Advanced Learning Platform, whic

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2003
14 YP: Russ Hunt, Managing Director Kendrick Pierce & Co. Inc.

BUSINESSProfile: Kendrick Pierce & Co., established in 1994, is a boutique investment banking firm. The Hyde Park company offers advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and general finance. Typical clients are community banks just starting o

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 16, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Tampa creditors' rights attorney Victor Veschio wants Hillsborough Judge Paul Huey's job.Yet another community bank has been organizing in Sarasota CountySwimming against the tide

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2004
'Doing What It Takes'

For some entrepreneurs, nearly doubling one's company each year for three consecutive years would be more than enough. But in the past year, Alan Zirkelbach has shown a limitless appetite for entrepreneurial growth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2003
Judge to Mediator

Former Bankruptcy Judge Timothy Corcoran opened a mediation practice following his unplanned retirement from the bench.Timothy Corcoran says he was a superb judge in Tampa's Middle District bankruptcy court.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Tech group makes hireHelping othersIs Fifth Third first again?Small world

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 10, 2009
Government Digest

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 12, 2010
New management

Three veteran Naples money managers are betting that the turmoil in the financial services industry makes this the perfect time to launch their own firms in the wealth-management capital of the Gulf Coast.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 19, 2010
Coal Miner's Daughter

Debra Curtiss' devotion to her two passions — technology and management — rubs off on others. The company she runs, for instance, is in growth mode.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 25, 2011
Someone's in the office

The first signs of an improving office-space market on the Gulf Coast are showing in the data, but it may be too early to call the recovery in rents and vacancies.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 4, 2011
Wild card

Prices have been rising in Naples for a year. It's a sign that the Southwest Florida region is leading the recovery.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 21, 2011
Accountability U.

Rick Scott sent letters last week to Florida's university presidents, and they weren't love letters. He wants evidence they are producing results.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 13, 2013
Good Swing

Unusual construction projects are still hard to spot in this economic recovery. The Alico Family Golf Center in Lee County shows why.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 30, 2012
All in the Family

With the single-family homebuilding market in full swing, builders are starting multifamily housing again.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • April 19, 2012
Capitol Chatter: April 20

Tax Watch Turkeys, vetoed budget items, PIP returns, and the vote for gambling.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2012
Are you emotionally intelligent?

Improving your emotional capabilities can greatly boost your effectiveness and job performance.

  • Strategies
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