The Spotlight is on Tampa Bay–It’s Time to Shine
On January 25, AOL co-founder Steve Case announced nationally on MSNBC that he saw the growth and momentum amongst new ventures in Tampa Bay and that he was going to visit to showcase the tremendous amount of progress here as part of his Rise of the Rest Tour. Now on his eighth tour, Rise of the […]
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Featured Founder: Adam Wisniewski of EX3 Labs
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 Adam Wisniewski, Founder & CEO of EX3 Labs, an experience design and product innovation firm that helps companies launch new ideas, digital products, and […]
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Featured Founder: Theo Harvey of SynsorMed
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 Theo Harvey, Founder & CEO of SynsorMed, a fully reimbursable remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) solution for healthcare care organizations. […]
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Featured Founder: Rosa Shores of BlockSpaces
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 Rosa Shores, Co-founder of BlockSpaces, a blockchain incubator that provides specialized education, development and support services to a collaborative learning community of individuals and […]
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What (Really) Matters When Hiring Your First Employees
This guest post was contributed by our partner, Established. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford As one of the greatest innovators in American history reminds us, the team you build around you — and how you develop them — will ultimately be what determines whether […]
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Featured Founder: SaLisa Berrien of COI Energy
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 SaLisa Berrien, Founder of COI Energy Services, a platform that enables customers to monetize their renewable energy resources by buying and selling energy back […]
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The Secret Sauce to Maximizing Your Time at Conferences
We’ve all been there: circling around the coffee station until you find someone to introduce yourself to, only to discover that they are in a completely different field and not strategic to you or your business at all. The new year is just on the horizon, and it’s time to start figuring out how you’ll make […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Crushing Your Goals in 2019
[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Image”][/siteorigin_widget] The new year is just on the horizon, and it’s time to start figuring out how you’ll make the most of it. Goal setting is vital for founders, their teams and the future of their venture. Goal setting has no special formula or hack; but there are a few things you can do […]
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Featured Founder: Steve Lazaridis of Phonism
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 Steve Lazaridis, Founder and CEO of Phonism, a VoIP provisioning solution that enables businesses to setup and manage all of their VoIP phones on […]
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Hiring is Hard.
As we discussed in our introductory post, local founders said they need help identifying and attracting great talent to their teams, both from within and outside of our market. 25% of founders who responded to our survey specifically mentioned talent as their biggest challenge to growth 62% of founders said an upcoming milestone is to hire […]
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Thanksgiving Revelations From My Favorite Scientist
My dad’s startup, the Advanced Photon Source Thanksgiving for me is a time of gratitude and reflection. I love this holiday because I get to surround myself with the people I love and take a moment to appreciate what I have in life. This past year for me has been a whirlwind. I moved to Tampa Bay from […]
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Embarc Collective Opens Membership Application and Shares First Rendering
Tampa Bay innovation hub to bring together startups, venture capitalists, and academic resources in 32,000-square foot downtown Tampa location Tampa, Florida – The innovation hub Embarc Collective has released the first renderings of its new 32,000-square foot space. Located near the Water Street Tampa neighborhood at the intersection of East Whiting Street and Jefferson Street in […]
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