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Gainesville Black Professionals sits down for a conversation with Reggie Keith, owner, Carpet Systems Plus of North Florida, on the challenges facing small business owners today. GBP: What is the name of your business and how long have you been in business? RK: Our business is Carpet Systems Plus of North Florida.  We have been in...

StartupGNV  connects local entrepreneurs to the people they want to meet and some “who you don’t know you should,” for the promotion of the Gainesville start-up community.  The vast mentor network helps ideas grow and businesses reach milestones faster through exposure, capital, knowledge and experience. Here, we highlight one of the many businesses we’ve helped...

The University of Florida technology commercialization enterprise has a new name – UF Innovate – to reflect its mission of moving discoveries from the laboratory to the market. UF Innovate is the umbrella organization for four entities – Tech Licensing, Ventures, and two business incubators, The Hub and Sid Martin Biotech. “UF Innovate is an...

According to the US Small Business Administration, greater than 90 percent of all businesses in the US are small.  Employing more than 60 percent of all workers, these small businesses also create 80 percent of new jobs in the US.  Clearly, small business is the backbone of our nation’s economy and their success is crucial....

When Goldman Sachs vice president Greg Smith resigned he wrote in a New York Times op-ed: “Culture was always a vital part of Goldman Sachs’ success…The culture was the secret sauce that made this place great and allowed us to earn our clients’ trust for 143 years.” Whether culture is a secret sauce that makes...

Organization Accepts the 2018 Historic Preservation Award for Meritorious Achievement/Adaptive Use Goodwin Company, pioneers of River-Recovered® heart pine and cypress, has announced that the Matheson Museum Library and Archives renovation project was awarded a 2018 Historic Preservation Award for Meritorious Achievement/Adaptive Use by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.  Goodwin Company nominated the project for...

Santa Fe College has announced the opening of the Innovative Product Development Center (IPDC) at GTEC. The IPDC was formed as a collaboration between Santa Fe College and the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) program. The IPDC will work with community-based entrepreneurs with commercially-viable discoveries to be paired with seasoned entrepreneurs and...

Small businesses power the American economy. Thousands of regions and communities across the nation rely on them to facilitate economic growth and job creation. When small businesses succeed, Greater Gainesville and other markets like it succeed. Access to capital is important for small business development. How many people are in the small business community? The...

AxoGen, Inc., a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for peripheral nerves, has announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 3,450,000 shares of its common stock, at a price to the public of $41.00 per share. The number of shares sold by AxoGen includes an aggregate of 450,000...

University of Florida Health is riding the crest of a national trend of bringing leading-edge health care services closer to the community by opening three specialty practices at The Oaks Mall. UF Health The Oaks will feature ophthalmology, otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) and audiology services provided by UF faculty in the 139,000-square-foot former Sears...