Justine Benstead is a writer and social media manager who lives in the sunny Hyde Park neighborhood of Tampa. She grew up in New Jersey and then Florida, graduating from the University of South Florida with a BA in English. She aspires to become a Jeopardy! champion and enjoys reading, kickboxing, taking her dog on long walks, and photography. Follow her on Twitter at @JustineinTampa. Justine enjoys telling stories and writing profiles about Tampa Bay's emerging technology and innovation news scene and entrepreneurs.
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Through a focus on transit and technology, the Tampa Innovation Alliance aims to help change the narrative about the entire Tampa Bay region. The idea is to engage students, startup businesses and community connections and collaborations in a combined effort.
Tampa Bay Startup Week, powered by Chase and Techstar, will take place Feb 8-12, 2016, and focus on creating tech community connections in Tampa Bay with startup events for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Hillsborough County and theTampa Innovation Alliance will host a June 'code-a-palooza' in conjunction with the National Day of Civic Hacking. Coders and programmers in the Tampa Bay region will be asked to tackle the Tampa homeless issue.
Five local Tampa Bay area businesses are competing to win a combined $1 million in prizes from the Bright House Regional Business Awards. Finalists pitch their business ideas before a panel of judges on Jan 26, 2016; winners will be annouced Feb. 11 at the Regional Business Awards Gala.
Tampa area businesses and entrepreneurs will compete in the West Pasco County Business Challege, a Shark Tank-like event that will take place January 28, 2016.
Hillsborough Community College has been selected as a partner of nonprofit Veterans Florida to provide a free entrepreneurship and business training program to veterans or active duty military who live in Florida or plan to move to the state to open a business.
Cigar City Brewing founder Joey Redner is among the speakers at the second edition of the Tampa Bay area quarterly meetup F*** Up Nights, where business owners share failure stories with startup founders in Tampa Bay.
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