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Venture Hive teaches startups to grow. Its own lesson was finding the right customer.
Susan Amat built an accelerator that let founders keep their equity. The bigger business lesson came when Venture Hive tried to sell accountability to other accelerators.
Alirio Torrealba Swapped Car Lots for City Blocks
After 25 years in auto retail, the Caracas-born entrepreneur found a second act in Coral Gables - one measured in courtyards, train stops and the patience to make new buildings feel inherited.
The Man Who Sold Cars in Caracas Is Now Building Coral Gables the Way George Merrick Dreamed It
Alirio Torrealba spent 25 years selling Fords and Kias in Venezuela. Then he moved to Miami and started building the kind of Coral Gables that George Merrick sketched a century ago - boutique, Mediterranean, and now worth half a billion dollars.
The Deals App That Grew Up and Became a Marketing Department
Shooger began as a mobile coupon network backed by $10 million and a cast that included an Emmy-winning Simpsons writer. When daily deals collapsed, it quietly became something more useful: a single marketing department that small businesses rent by the month.
The Hotel Investor That Wants the Keys to Every Door
Driftwood Capital does not merely buy hotels. It assembles the capital, builds or renovates the property, lends into the gaps and then operates the rooms - a tightly linked model now spanning about $3.5 billion in hospitality assets.