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OwnLocal Acquires Print2Web

SiliconHills

Print2Web, founded in 2001 in St. Petersburg, Florida, was one of the first companies to digitize print ads for newspapers. Austin-based OwnLocal announced its acquisition of Print2Web, a digital service provider to the newspaper industry, on Monday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Green Franchise Taking The Industry A Notch Higher

Hearpreneur

The first OXXO Care Cleaners opened in 2001, and there are now more than 50 locations worldwide. The app is being rolled out store by store and is currently being used by 10 South Florida stores. We are growing in Florida, Texas and the North East and we are also working with multiunit franchisees to expand the OXXO name though out.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. Jay Ritter of the University of Florida's prestigious Warrington College of Business Administration. This argument raised objections from Prof.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency. The name Eisen is derived from the last name of my hero – Paul Stanley, lead singer of KISS. His real name is Stanley Eisen, thus Eisen Management Group.

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Transcript of Want to Be Like Amazon?

Duct Tape Marketing

They’ve been profitable since 2001. I have two friends of mine who run business is Tampa Florida okay, very different businesses but yet they both are incredibly customer centric. They just know that the times are changing, we’re leaving in a world where customers are on quicksand and the marketplace is on quicksand.

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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The KISS frontman started off selling the KISS-themed coffin online in 2001 and launched the newest versions of the “KISS Kasket” early in 2011. Florida, where the company has its headquarters, was surprised, as well, considering Williams didn’t have a license or certification.