Celebrating the Pinnacle Welcome to the inaugural Apogee Awards, a tribute to the success of twenty-four C-level executives throughout South Florida. The region has many business awards programs, but this one is unique. Rather than having an awards program for each position, such as a CEO awards...
Hamid Hashemi says he got into the movie business because he didn't know any better and stayed because he is a sore loser.About 30 years later, the founder, president and CEO of iPic Entertainment appears to be the happy winner: Hashemi has developed and successfully...
Paul Kaplan and Robert White started out as a two-man operation, but their KW Property Management has hit 800 employees and $30 million in revenues in its 10th year. After all, somebody had to take care of managing all the big condos that have popped up. "There...
"It's too bad we don't appreciate entrepreneurs as much as we appreciate sports," says Jim Clifton, the President and CEO of Gallup.The nation's motto could be "no running back left behind," Clifton joked during the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Annual meeting at the Signature Grand.Clifton,...
South Florida's hottest office towers are attracting suitors faster than debutantes at a country club. CityPlace Tower, Courvoisier Centre, 350 and 450 East Las Olas Boulevard, and Douglas Entrance are just a few of the landmark office sales leading the region into a office buying boom,...
The next big thing in tech is going to be really big. The "Internet of Things" (IoT) is projected to have more than a $7 trillion (yes, that's a "t�) market by 2020, with 26 billion connected devices. These devices are more often called "Things," because...
Larry Zinn is a rare breed - and not just because he's a successful third-generation entrepreneur. He runs the Warren Henry family of auto dealerships and wins lots of awards for customer and workplace satisfaction. Why? He says it's his family approach, which involves mentoring...
Last month's column talked about the first two steps in hiring a sales person: Identifying what an ideal candidate looks like for your organization and searching for the candidate. This month's column will look at the final three steps: pre-qualifying the candidate, assessing the candidate...
The mentoring program developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is landing in South Florida. Amid South Florida's growing entrepreneurial scene, Florida Atlantic University's 27,000-square-foot Tech Runway is unique by providing each of the startups a boot camp, team mentoring, collaborative workspace, $25,000 in funding, interns...
Al Gore couldn't make it, but a few of the real pioneers that helped build the web shared wisdom and war stories at last month's South Florida Technology Alliance event at Citrix System's headquarters.A common theme was a belief that the Internet would change things....
