Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
Lemay Sanchez remembers talking with his childhood friend, Daniel Galano, about building a business together. They lived in Cuba and weren’t even teenagers yet, but they proclaimed to each other they wanted to build something big and important when the time was right – “something that matters,” Sanchez said. Fast […]
Small businesses are gloomy about their future, with an index of future expectations plunging to a 48-year record low. The top concerns: Inflation and worker shortages. The National Federation of Independent Business optimism index stood at 93.2 in April. The net share of owners expecting better business conditions in the […]
If you haven’t tried a delightful Turkish doner kebap yet, you will soon, if entrepreneur Ongun Kocabas has anything to say about it. Ongun, born and raised in Turkey was always inspired by his father, a successful business owner in the food manufacturing industry. After Ongun studied economics in Turkey, […]
The world of marketing is always changing, says Orlando Espinosa, of Emineo Media. As buyer expectations shift while technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, marketing cannot stand still. Yet, he says, marketing is often not top of mind for growing small businesses. If you want to see real […]
Is your company appropriate for venture capital investors? Ricardo Weisz, a Florida SBDC at FIU consultant, knows a thing or two about this topic. He’s been a business operator multiple times and has invested in dozens of startup companies over the years. First you need to determine that your company […]
Adriana Madrinan, a consultant at Florida SBDC at FIU who specializes in growth strategy, business models and innovation, said she started talking about reinvention at the beginning of the pandemic, and two years later “we are still talking about it.” As an SBDC consultant, she still gets as many questions about pivoting […]
The last time you stayed at a hotel, you may have received a text from the property asking if you had any special requests before checking in. Want a dinner reservation or theatre tickets? They could help with that – no phone call required. Then while you were there, an […]
In a major investment in Miami-Dade County’s small business community, Wells Fargo announced today a $20 million grant to the Miami Foundation. Through the grant, the Miami Foundation’s largest grant ever, the nonprofit foundation will use the funding to support diverse small businesses and nonprofits through a combination of grants, […]
There’s just something special about the traditional ways of the Latin bakery. Jose Fernandes bought Miami Foods, an industrial bakery and distributor, in 2015. At the time, the company founded in 2004 was selling mainly imported cheese, Latin cream cheese and yogurt, but he quickly converted it over to entirely […]
If you’ve got an early-stage, South Florida-based startup, you still have two weeks to get your pitch deck ready to enter the 23rd annual Miami Herald Startup Pitch Competition. The contest has both a FIU Track and a Community Track, and entering the competition can give you valuable media coverage […]