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Startup Company Support   

Every year, numerous technology startups leave the Miami area for other parts of the country. Backers of the county’s first technology startup incubator, Incubate Miami, are moving to stem that tide. [read more]


Strategic Planning   

Running a business without a strategic plan is like flying an airplane with no guidance assistance. [read more]


Spinning Off Jobs   

The recession might not seem like a logical time to launch a business, but partners in two entrepreneurial projects linking economic development and higher-education acumen think it’s a fine time. [read more]


UCF's Incubator Attracting More Attention   

With seven offices and 30 graduates, its greatest contribution, says the program’s executive director, Tom O’Neal, is the 1,600 jobs its client companies have created — and a
'business ecosystem' in place to continue creating more. [read more]


Focusing On Accounts Receivable   

So many entrepreneurs are having problems with cash flows, that paying late just seems to be becoming more and more pervasive. [read more]


Entrepreneurs Aim to Capitalize on Healthcare Reform   

A number of Florida firms are among those entering the wide-open marketplace for electronic medical records. [read more]


South Fla. EDC Aids Startups   

Entrepreneur Navroze Mehta launched Dermdex/Skinstore, a technology platform company for the skin-care profession, in Boca Raton. He grew it with the help of the Enterprise Development Corp. of South Florida.  [read more]


Training New Managers   

It's a mistake to take your best worker and make him or her a manager.  [read more]


The Analyst Group in Pensacola Is Calling the Shots   

The Analyst Group calls it software system The Bridge because it spans the gap between what workforce scheduling and management software should do and what it actually does. [read more]


Stop Customers from Leaving   

It is 20 times harder to get a new customer than it is to keep an existing one.  [read more]


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