Emerging growth companies, investors and professionals wanting to learn more about early and mid-stage equity investment trends in Florida attended this special forum to learn, first hand, what our statewide panel of experts had to say, along with their predictions for the future.

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In an article in the Journal of Human Values, the Rev. Ernest Chu, former investment banker and widely recognized expert on financing emerging growth companies, defines spiritual entrepreneurship and examines the processes and results typical of spiritual entrepreneurs' endeavors.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 11, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Entrepreneurs who put their "spiritual assets" to work become "spiritual entrepreneurs" and engage in "spiritual capitalism," suggests the Rev. Ernest D. Chu, a former investment banker, now assistant pastor at the Center for Spiritual Living in Fort Lauderdale.