From 1634 to 1637, the Dutch Tulip Bubble put a face on chasing prices. Tulip bulbs in Holland reached six figures from what was once single digits as investors leveraged their futures to get in…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DOUGHNUTS RULE
The Salty, a new Audubon Park doughnut shop on Corrine Drive near Old Winter Park Road, continues to draw lines of eager customers around what used to be an auto repair shop. The success of…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AMAZON EDUCATES
The explosion in Amazon’s educational resources is providing a blueprint Florida can emulate in empowering the next generation of workers. Amazon’s multi-faceted digital training resources – including coding, software architecture, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: MUSK’S LOFTY GOAL
Verizon is marketing on national television that it will connect 10 million people to the Internet over the next five years. That’s impressive, I guess. But Elon Musk, through SpaceX’s reusable rockets and low-orbit satellites,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY VS. PUBLIX
The pandemic has had disparate effects on disparate industries. This week that played out in living color as Disney reported a loss of $2 billion on its attractions, complicit with tourism in general, while Publix…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: RETAIL EVOLUTION
It is not surprising that JCPenney, among other traditional retailers, is shuttering some 154 stores, including its store at Orlando Fashion Square. Nor is it terribly surprising that Amazon has captured 49% of all e-commerce…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: STARTUP PRIME TIME: Entrepreneurship
Square and Twitter have one thing in common. They emerged out of economic crisis at a time in which traditional solutions weren’t solving problems. For each of them, headed up by a charismatic entrepreneur with…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: FATTMERCHANT
Kudos go to Fattmerchant co-founders, Suneera Madhani and Sal Rehmetullah, whose downtown Orlando fintech firm has been recognized by both U.S. News & World Report and Forbes — the first awarded its top rating for…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: REVISITING SEARS
While business literature has for over a decade concluded that, in the face of current competition for the retail dollar, Sears either needed a reset, or was best served liquidating its assets, paying off vendors…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ROSEN’S PHILANTROPHY
Harris Rosen’s planned gift of $12 million to the University of Florida-led research collaboration combatting deadly brain cancer expands his record of targeted gifting. As an entrepreneur with an extensive portfolio of hotel properties, Rosen’s…