Eager entrepreneurs aim to shake up the Tampa networking scene

Skip the chicken dinners. Pass on old-style meet-and-greets. An energetic group of young Tampa entrepreneurs are out to change the way networking is done.

  • By Jim Stinson
  • | 5:00 a.m. April 5, 2024
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The Tampa Entrepreneurs' "Full Throttle" networking event, held March 14, 2024 at the Motor Enclave's venue.
The Tampa Entrepreneurs' "Full Throttle" networking event, held March 14, 2024 at the Motor Enclave's venue.
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Joe Staiber cracks a big grin, when, at a recent business networking event he's asked the most basic of business networking questions: Do you have a business card? 

"Oh, we don't use business cards," says Joe Staiber, 25, while overseeing his March 14 networking event at the tony Motor Enclave's event center in northeast Tampa, by the executive airport. "We use Instagram."

 

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