Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
In years past, developing and launching a small business with a sophisticated digital platform could have required a software team, marketing staff, outside agencies, significant capital, and a long development cycle. Those days are over. As this story will show, today a team with just two people can use artificial […]
This success story begins long before Nicole Bronson registered her small business, Anointed Florist & Gift Shop. It starts with a 12‑year‑old girl sweeping floors in a Miami flower shop after school, learning all about a floral arranging business she didn’t yet know would become her life’s calling. “I enjoyed […]
For Diana Figueroa, building a business was never only about selling products. It was about creating a movement centered on health, wellbeing and human transformation. As founder and president of Intus Health, Figueroa has transformed a deeply personal passion for wellness into a growing e-commerce company that offers Ayurvedic herbal […]
By Cynthia Corzo / FIU College of Business The Florida Small Business Development Center (FSBDC) at FIU Business honored entrepreneurs, students and community partners whose innovation and leadership are helping drive economic growth across Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys during its annual Business At Its Best Awards. They recognized a […]
Sommer Curry’s journey into entrepreneurship is deeply rooted in family, resilience, and an unwavering belief in self-investment. “I’ve always been around hair,” Sommer Curry recalls. Her mother, who had been a licensed aesthetician and cosmetologist, not only introduced her to hair care but modeled what it meant to be a […]
Last year, Florida SBDC at FIU, the small business development center within the university’s College of Businesses, helped close to 1,400 small businesses with business planning, growth strategy, marketing and communications, access to capital, government contracting, and much more. The center’s business consultants provided over 13,000 hours of no-cost consulting […]
When Augusto “Tony” Lizarraga reflects on the nearly 25-year journey of his Miami-based company, Novak Technologies, one theme stands out clearly: adaptability. Founded in 2000, Novak Technologies began as a supplier for major petroleum companies such as Shell, Mobil, Texaco and others by providing the equipment and solutions needed to […]
When MRI technologists Tony Martinelli and Lucas Wheeler looked around their workplace three years ago, they saw more than patients. They saw a problem that desperately needed solving. Working at Lower Keys Medical Center, the only hospital south of Marathon, the two men were on the front lines of imaging […]
When Danielle Wuensche walks into Zahntechnique’s Miami Lakes office each morning, sunlight streams in from the surrounding glass windows, filling the boutique dental lab with natural light. For this small business owner, her space represents more than just a modern workplace: It’s a symbol of resilience, vision, and a decade-long […]
When Isabel Garcia Nevett talks about chocolate, it isn’t just about flavor: It’s about history, family, and the immigrant journey. Together with her sister Susanna, she has spent more than a decade transforming this passion into an award-winning Miami chocolate shop now recognized among the best in the United States. […]