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St. Pete City Council approves storefront plan with a nod to developers’ concerns

The St. Petersburg City Council voted Thursday night in favor of a plan intended to protect independent businesses on two downtown streets, over the objections of several major property owners.

What pushed BayCare’s revenue over $4 billion

BayCare Health Systems Inc., the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider in the Tampa Bay area, broke through the $4 billion mark in operating revenue in 2018, following investments to increase access to care and improve the quality of care.

What’s next for a St. Pete entrepreneur with marijuana, blockchain holdings

Wayne Anderson describes himself as a risk-taker.

In the 25 years he’s been in St. Petersburg, he’s bought, built and sold companies with interests varying from natural gas and oil to marijuana and blockchain.

A Brief History of Income Taxes [The Indicator from Planet Money]

Taxes have been around forever. But the income tax? In the U.S., it's relatively recent.

Cool, comfy, coffee … The ‘funky chic’ of Black Crow

Hawk and her longtime partner Greg Bauman opened the first Black Crow, in St. Pete’s Old Northeast neighborhood, in 2016. Two months ago, they launched a second location, in the Grand Central District.

The Shuffle

Nick Reskusic
deepwatch

Zaps

The Hustle

Steven Fage

Steven Fage is a robotics engineer turned entrepreneur. In 2010, he gave up a life as programming industrial robots, sold everything, and moved to Tampa to study Entrepreneurship at the University of South Florida.

Seedfunders

Acumen, Connections, Funding.

Influencer

Dave Chitester
Seedfunders

Focus: San Francisco

The City That Apps Built, or Destroyed [The Atlantic]

An unprecedented analysis of who is buying San Francisco property.

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PitchLyst Company: Entropy Technology Design

Entropy's NIMBUS smart sensor, hardware and software technology provides a groundbreaking new and untapped VLF data-field of real-time severe weather and threat detection unavailable elsewhere today.

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