{"id":442,"date":"2013-06-23T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theme-fusion.com\/avada\/architecture-xml\/?p=442"},"modified":"2015-08-14T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T02:24:15","slug":"florida-companies-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/florida-companies-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Albu &#038; Associates Named a Florida Companies to Watch Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-739 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/albu.vipbyte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GrowFLFLCTW1.png\" alt=\"GrowFL\" width=\"401\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GrowFLFLCTW1.png 401w, https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GrowFLFLCTW1-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><span class=\"fusion-dropcap dropcap dropcap-boxed\" style=\"border-radius:0px;background-color:#2ba0a3;\">G<\/span>rowFL has announced that Albu &amp; Associates is among the finalists for its prestigious annual award. The 50 winning companies will be announced in early August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>GrowFL provides strategies, resources and support to second-stage companies for next level growth. By supporting companies with Strategic Research and peer-to-peer CEO mentoring, GrowFL helps companies overcome obstacles to growth and leads them towards prosperity. Based on the philosophy of Economic Gardening \u2014 to grow existing businesses in a community, region or state \u2014 GrowFL is the program of the Florida Economic Gardening Institute at the University of Central Florida and is a critical component to the state\u2019s economic development strategy and Florida\u2019s entrepreneurial ecosystem. During the pilot program from 2009-2011, GrowFL helped more than 400 companies create 1,400 new jobs and had an annual economic impact of $510.4 million. At the beginning of 2013, that number has grown to nearly 700 companies supported by GrowFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rowFL has announced that Albu &amp; Associates is among the finalists for its prestigious annual award. The 50 winning companies will be announced in early August 2013. GrowFL provides strategies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albu.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}