Monthly Archives: February 2016
We are excited to welcome Uber to the FirstWaVE Venture Center! To start, Uber Technologies will plan and host driver on-boarding and training sessions in our shared workspace. Also, Uber representatives will be taking part in some of the entrepreneur workshops and other events held here at Tampa Bay WaVE.
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Opportunities are ripe for entrepreneurially minded people today as never before. What we are seeing unfold today with 3-D printing reminds me of what happened in the late 1970s with computers. There are enormous opportunities emerging for entrepreneurs looking to see what's possible, find needs in the marketplace, and seize…
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Two Tampa tech companies with mobile platforms to make concert or sports events more fun for attendees and financially rewarding for promoters are in the hot spot for potential investors. “Sports is a sexy business,” Karri Zaremba, co-founder at Venuetize, said during the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Business of Sports…
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Tampa Bay startups are well represented at Chase basecamp in downtown Tampa’s District 3 event space. It’s day three of Tampa Bay Startup Week, and energy is still high from the ‘halfway to Social Media Day’ celebration at a lively sports bar on night two.
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Day one of Startup Week Tampa Bay drew to a close on a clear evening. Inside a 1920’s-era warehouse in Tampa’s small but thriving downtown core, it was sunshine and high energy at Chase basecamp for the week’s kickoff ceremony; the enthusiastic spirit of the Tampa Bay entrepreneurial ecosystem really…
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If the 2nd Annual Tampa Bay Startup Week is any indication, it appears the region’s emerging tech community is starting to grow its footprint. More than 1,200 are expected to participate in 80 events throughout downtown Tampa this week, a projected 50 percent increase over the inaugural event last year.…
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It’s mid-afternoon on a crisp, sunny Friday -- the day before Tampa’s annual Gasparilla parade. Mark Sharpe sits in a corner seat at Buddy Brew Coffee Shop on Kennedy Boulevard. Occasionally, he waves to patrons, several of whom recognize the former Hillsborough County commissioner.
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Ten students, selected from over 700 students in grades K-8 from across the Tampa Bay area, will gather on Feb. 11, 2016, Thomas Edison’s birthday, and pitch their inventions before a panel of judges at the eighth annual USF Young Innovator Competition (www.usfyounginnovator.com). The final competition will be held this…
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Cohesion, an IT consulting and staffing firm, will relocate its national headquarters to Tampa. The company will bring new jobs with its relocation, the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. said. Gov. Rick Scott will be at the EDC on Monday afternoon to announce details.
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Clearwater marketing firm Digital Media Solutions is dramatically expanding its revenue and scope of services with an acquisition. The addition of Sparkroom in Paramus, New Jersey will make DMS one of the largest ad agencies in the United States, said Joe Marinucci, CEO of DMS.
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