Featured Founder: Shawn Cutter of GreenScreens
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Shawn Cutter, CEO of GreenScreens, empowering cannabis retailers with screens that deliver great experiences for consumers. What were you doing previously and what inspired […]
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Guide to Internships at Embarc Collective
Internships provide hands-on learning opportunities for students to apply relevant skills in a startup environment. Students gain direct exposure to how a company is built and scaled while contributing meaningfully to the team. Working at a startup as an intern offers unique benefits, including skill development, cross-functional exposure, increased responsibility, and the chance to “wear […]
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Featured Founder: Jerry Beinhauer of Apaly Health
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Jerry Beinhauer, Founder of Apaly Health, software that lowers healthcare costs by enabling direct contracting between employers and providers. What were you doing previously […]
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Lessons Learned Coaching Early-Stage Tech Startups
Over the last year, I’ve had the chance to shape Tampa Bay’s newest startup hub, Embarc Collective and how it supports Tampa Bay’s startup talent. Working directly with our startup community gave me the chance to support passionate entrepreneurs at all stages across various industries (44 companies at the time of writing). Each week I […]
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Improving Website Security
Cybersecurity is a priority topic for many companies, and for good reason. We’ve all seen the headlines about catastrophic data breaches compromising customer information and permanently damaging the company’s reputation. Every year the number of companies who experience cybercrime is growing. In 2018 there were more than 351,000 breaches reported to IC3–a dramatic increase of […]
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Top Business Leaders Join Jeff Vinik To Form Embarc Collective Founders Circle
Tampa Bay startup hub Board of Directors expands with the addition of top local business leaders Tampa, Florida — Six key business leaders in Tampa Bay will join Jeff Vinik, Board Chairman of Embarc Collective, Owner of Tampa Bay Lightning, Co-Owner of Strategic Property Partners, to form the Embarc Collective Founders Circle. Embarc Collective is […]
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Embarc Collective is Opening. What Does This Mean for Tampa Bay?
Embarc Collective helps Tampa Bay’s startup talent build bold, scalable, thriving companies. Our team has been doing this since March of this year for the 40 member startups we support through 1:1 coaching from the Embarc Collective staff and 51 group workshops on the different needs of a startup. But without our physical space, for […]
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Designing an ADA Compliant Website
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” — Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web In 2018 alone, there were 2,285 website ADA compliance lawsuits filed in the US, including many against high-profile names like Home Depot, Beyoncé, Nike, […]
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Florida Business Development Corporation Continues Partnership with Embarc Collective to Strengthen Function-Specific Support for Technology Startups
Tampa Bay startup hub to expand function-specific support for talent building early-stage technology ventures Tampa, Florida — Embarc Collective is expanding its partnership with the Florida Business Development Corporation (FBDC) to broaden its function-specific support model to a growing number of high-potential, early-stage technology startups in Tampa Bay. This support has been available to all […]
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Lessons on Building a Brand: One Year with Embarc Collective
As a Tampa Bay native, this region holds a special place in my heart and is home to my most cherished memories. From attending college at my parents’ alma mater to building a business and career here, I’m definitely what you’d call Tampa Grown. After college, despite having opportunities available to me around the country, […]
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Junior Achievement Partners with Embarc Collective to Deliver Entrepreneurship Opportunities to Students
Tampa Bay startup hub leverages the nation’s largest organization dedicated to youth development to increase regional entrepreneurship opportunities for junior talent Tampa, Florida — Startup hub Embarc Collective is partnering with Junior Achievement to develop an entrepreneurship academy and lab within its 32,000 square foot hub that will open later in 2019. The JA Entrepreneurship […]
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Forming A Board and Running Effective Board Meetings
As a seed stage company, running a board meeting can be strange, new territory. Holding effective board meetings are critical for early-stage startups to make sound decisions, provide detailed updates to stakeholders, and re-evaluate the current plan of action to continue to scale quickly. Recently, we invited Julia Taxin of Grotech Ventures to share tips […]
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