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Monday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 4/4/2016

› Seeking maturity: Orlando's tech startups need to grow up
Early stage startups, typically a few years old or less, can grow up to become the larger businesses that boost a region's economic development by employing a large number of people.

› Growth equity firm, local partners invest in eMerge Americas
eMerge Americas, the Miami Beach technology conference founded by South Florida entrepreneur Manuel D. Medina, has secured a major investment from growth equity firm Orkila Capital as well as Medina and a group of high-profile local partners.

› Meet Publix's new CEO
Todd Jones — who became the company's president in 2008 — will succeed CEO Ed Crenshaw, grandson of Publix founder George W. Jenkins, on April 30.

› A weakened Enterprise Florida battles external critics, internal angst
Some critics of Enterprise Florida — including incoming Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran — say it's time to review whether the agency created 20 years ago has outlived its purpose in a more conservative fiscal era.

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