South Florida businesses have banded together to promote next Saturday as "Small Business Saturday." The aim is to encourage holiday shoppers to stop by locally owned businesses before they visit Walmart, Target, Best Buy and the like.
Florida is 3rd in veteran-owned businesses, but what does that mean?
In many ways, the military is a good training ground for future business owners. Ideally, the skills a service member learns while serving will help him or her create a startup, enter the family business or contribute to the success of a big company.
10 years in the making, Florida's biotech industry is finally blooming
About a decade ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told the state legislature he saw Florida becoming one of the country's biotech hubs. At the time, it was a little hard to envision Florida as a hotspot for bioscience and biotech companies, but now, almost 10 years later, that idea seems far less far-fetched.
U of Central Florida's economic report not so sunny
The University of Central Florida's most recent economic forecast for our part of The Sunshine State is anything but sunny. In fact, it isn't great for the entrepreneurs and small business owners in and around Orlando.