Cigar retailing is typified by a guy who loves to smoke and opens one store. Abe Dababneh has built an empire. His Smoke Inn stores have grown to 12 locations
Abe Dababneh
How to build a family business success(ion) plan
About 90 percent of all businesses in the United States are owned or controlled by families, but only 30 percent make it successfully to the second generation. Only 10 to
Tame email hell, enhance security
Document management nightmares usually begin innocuously with those email attachments that go back and forth among clients, business partners and others. Soon these documents grow too large for mailboxes to
South Florida’s web pioneers to speak
A trio of the biggest names in South Florida technology history will speak during an event Thursday evening (Sept. 25) at Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale. The panelists are: *
Alvah Chapman Jr.’s spirit lives on
The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce honored two individual leaders and Miami Dade College for vision and leadership with its first Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Award of Excellence. The program
Incubator
The Incubator: Metro Broward Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business Success Center says it aids startup companies by providing access to advice from industry leaders, academic professionals, subject matter experts, financial
Jorge Pérez
Henry Flagler was the original architect of South Florida, but Jorge Pérez is arguably the biggest modern contributor. Since Pérez founded the Related Group in 1979, it has built 80,000
The Big Squeeze
Uncertainty is the watchword for South Florida’s community banks as they grapple with the banking reform regulations resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act. Dodd-Frank already has more than 5,000 pages of
Fried on Business
We are going to use this space to talk about some of the things I see from my seat behind the mic on Thursdays at 5 p.m. on 880 AM.
South Florida’s Big Lifesaver
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 shows how difficult searches can be, but making them easier is a daily job at one of the oldest manufacturers in South Florida.