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.
Study puts Florida among top ten business climates in the U.S.
A recent study ranked Florida among the top ten states with favorable business climates. Studies like this provide reassurance that the work we've put into making Florida a place where startup businesses can grow, big companies can thrive and employers and employees can find one another and forge productive partnerships is working.
Rate of "immigration entrepreneurship" causes experts to sound the alarm
Historically, the U.S. has attracted many foreign-born entrepreneurs who want to start their businesses here because of our open markets, generally favorable financial policies and comparatively hands-off government.
Small banks seem to be boosting Orlando's business climate
Access to capital is one of the most important elements to a successful business launch. If a startup has taken time and space in its business formation and planning process to seek out and acquire favorable loans and lines of credit, it is more likely to succeed than would be a business that just takes a slapdash, as-needed approach to financing.