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Strategy Roundtable: Spotlight On Jacksonville, Florida

ReadWriteStart

Today's roundtable was co-hosted with the Jacksonville Startup Weekend. This past weekend, the Jacksonville entrepreneurship community hosted their own version of this exciting program. The problem, however, is that he is assuming that an investor would fund the product development. Investors rarely fund concepts.

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Healthbox Picks Seven Startups For Inaugural Accelerator Program

YoungUpstarts

Jacksonville, Florida-based and healthcare technology-focused business accelerator Healthbox has identified seven companies that will be selected to participate in its inaugural accelerator program.

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12 Questions: Meet Maximilian (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Max lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

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16 Companies That Care… And How They Show It

YoungUpstarts

This organization puts its money where its mouth is by conducting ongoing self-development and personal growth courses for its employees, and providing an electronic library full of leadership and personal growth books. I recall purchasing a suit from a salesman named Fitz at Rosenblum’s in Jacksonville, Florida. Rosenblum’s.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable?

ReadWriteStart

Today's roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. And that's where Themeefy will need to develop a product roadmap and business strategy that takes this minimum viable product and builds a sustainable business out of it.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

He always wanted to run his own business, but didn’t develop a passion for waste management until he spent 15 years doing it for someone else. a dumpster rental and waste hauling company in both Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla. In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , is still recycled.