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After one year of occupying 17,000 square feet of space inside downtown Orlando's Church Street Exchange building, the Canvs co-working space is making plans to expand as quickly as by the end of the year. Donna...

If you're trying to figure out which U.S. city is best for women entrepreneurs, then look no further than Alpharetta, Ga., a northern suburb of Atlanta, where 31 percent of the establishments are owned by women. GoodCall, a South Carolina company that corrals government statistics for use in business decisions, compiled the places offering the best chance for women to start a business.

If you are killing a fish mostly to get its valuable eggs and turn them into an expensive delicacy, what do you do with the leftovers? Healthy Earth, a newly formed private venture in sustainable seafood, thinks it has the answer.

Winter Park advertising firm Izea has settled a three-year-old patent lawsuit with Dallas-based Blue Calypso. Izea specializes in sponsored social advertising, where celebrities or social media stars endorse products and services in exchange for a fee. It also features an online marketplace for writers and bloggers for hire. Izea was being sued along with Groupon, Yelp, Foursquare and MyLikes. According to the federal court docket in the case, Izea was the only company to settle recently in the ongoing case.

Tallahassee is shedding its lacquered image as merely a government city. That's partly due to a steady uptick in start-ups. Entrepreneurs — college students, tech heads and residents jump-starting new careers — are hungry for opportunities. Insiders say more resources around Tallahassee start-ups signals a promising direction.

As Lisa Soros showed off the video game she and her team built this weekend, it started to act up. The animal characters, which players had to lure toward cages using bait, hit a certain spot and were then stuck in place.

Semplastics LLC of Orlando was named one of five winners in the inaugural Open Innovation Challenge sponsored by GE and Statoil, a Norwegian-based energy company. Along with companies from Montreal, New Brunswick, South Carolina and North Dakota, Semplastics was selected from a pool of 100 submissions from applicants in 30 countries.

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance will be a host sponsor of an international conference for entrepreneurs and investors. SUP-X: The StartUp Expo, is scheduled for Feb. 16-17 at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward CountyConvention Center.

Angelo Biasi isn’t ashamed of the madness that consumes his life. In fact, he celebrates it and encourages others to take hold of theirs as well. The entrepreneur and founding CEO of...