Orlando’s StarterStudio teaches tech founders to test demand, win customers and face the awkward questions investors ask. Its most useful lesson may be knowing which idea to stop building.
Drug makers can design a promising study and still lose years waiting for the right people to enroll. Conquest Research built a local, patient-facing machine to make that slow middle move faster - then took it across three states.
It owns no hotels, no theme parks, no roller coasters. Yet Visit Orlando's small team turns Orange County's hotel tax into a $94.5 billion visitor economy - and 468,000 jobs.