PowerChord CEO talks on what’s fueling the St. Pete startup’s growth, becoming profitable

St. Pete-based software startup PowerChord is on a growth trend despite the challenges its clients are facing.

PowerChord creates brand-specific websites that become digital storefronts. The company's biggest clients are those in the outdoor power equipment space, such as those selling tractors, which the majority of those manufacturers are in the Midwest U.S. or overseas in Germany.

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VINTAGE ST. PETE: Tom Reese and the Beaux Arts Gallery

Tom Reese told the author of On the Road to hit the road.

Legendary beat novelist Jack Kerouac, living out the last alcoholic years of his life in mid-1960s St. Petersburg, was known to frequent the Beaux Arts Gallery and Coffeehouse, the ramshackle bohemian outpost Reese operated next to the north-south railroad tracks in Pinellas Park.