I'm an Entrepreneur — and the County Offers People Like Me Nothing
Between now and next year, I'm building somewhere between 150 and 200 ventures of my own. I know entrepreneurs who run 800, 1,000, even 2,000. And I can tell you from experience: Miami-Dade County and the cities inside it offer no real help for a business owner operating at that scale.
And I'm not building all of those ventures just for myself. A portion of the businesses I'm building will be donated directly to the Project Fund — my personal philanthropic gift to every resident of Miami-Dade County. These companies will generate ongoing revenue that flows into the Project Fund and returns real, tangible benefits to the community, completely free to the people it serves. That's how we get the Project Fund working from day one. And I invite every entrepreneur in this county to do the same — build something, and give a piece of it back to the Project Fund for all of us.
Think about how it works today. An accountant has an office. A lawyer, a doctor, a dentist — they have their office, they pay their tax receipt, they file their paperwork, and that's fine. But the person who builds and acquires hundreds of ventures at once — online companies, physical stores, businesses bought already up and running — has nowhere to turn. There is no county program, no city desk, nothing written on any government website.
So when an entrepreneur three states away searches for whether Miami-Dade will help them relocate their businesses, nothing comes up. And they conclude: "I'm not moving to Miami — they're not doing anything for people like me." I want to change that answer to: "Now we are."
The Gap Nobody Will Say Out Loud
Local governments love to talk about being "business friendly." But friendliness is not a program. It is not a phone number. It is not a team. For the serial entrepreneur — the person who owns a portfolio of companies — Miami-Dade has no front door. There is no office whose job is to help that person move, register, staff, and operate dozens or hundreds of businesses here. And because there is no program, there is nothing on the county's website, which means that when the person most valuable to our economy goes looking for us online, we are invisible. Invisibility is a choice. I intend to end it.
The Initiative: Recruit the World's Serial Entrepreneurs
I want to create an initiative and a program to actively recruit serial entrepreneurs — and bring them, and all of their ventures, to Miami-Dade County.
Not just from Chicago, New York, Boston, the Midwest, Texas, California, or Virginia — but from Central America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, the UK, Spain, Dubai, and Africa. Anywhere there are entrepreneurs who own multiple ventures and are sitting on the fence about moving. Many are tired of the winters. Many already have family here. Many spend their days quietly acquiring businesses that are already up and running online. My message to every one of them is simple: Bring all your businesses to Miami-Dade. We'll take care of you. Just move them.
A Concierge Inside the Office of the Mayor
When you own a portfolio of 500 businesses, relocating sounds like a nightmare of paperwork. So we take that off your plate. A dedicated team inside the Office of the Mayor will help you square everything — with the state, the county, and every city — and help you decide where to allocate and operate once you arrive. You will not navigate it alone. One point of contact. One team. One county that acts like it wants you here.
The Deal: Help Tied to Jobs for Residents
Here is the win-win. If you're bringing hundreds of corporations, the county can work with you on credits — including on payroll — in exchange for one commitment: you qualify for and provide jobs to Miami-Dade residents. You bring the ventures; you employ our people. The incentive is not a gift. It is a trade: county support in exchange for county jobs.
This matters more every day. Artificial intelligence is taking jobs. The people who can create jobs at scale are exactly the entrepreneurs I'm describing. Bringing them here isn't a giveaway to the wealthy — it's the most direct way I know to put Miami-Dade residents to work.
The Data Talks
Every time one of these entrepreneurs arrives — buys a home, registers with the county — they don't bring one business. They bring 500, 800, 900. In a single day, the number of businesses relocating to Miami-Dade can explode. That is data that talks. It puts us at the top of the comparison tables — locally, statewide, nationally, and globally — as the county attracting the most entrepreneurs and forming the most businesses in the country. Numbers like that don't just look good in a report. They change how the entire world sees Miami-Dade, and they attract the next wave of builders behind them.
Not Just Wall Street South — Bring the Real Whales
Everyone is talking about "Wall Street South." But a single corporation moving a headquarters here is not the same thing. We need to bring the real whales — the movers and shakers, the people who move money and run portfolios across dozens or hundreds of companies, the ones who even work alongside the headquarters everyone else is chasing. Those are the people who create jobs for residents. That is who we should be recruiting, and that is who Miami-Dade has never once gone out and asked to come home.
This Is Not a Giveaway — It's a Job Engine
Some people hear "incentives for business owners" and assume it only helps executives. That is wrong. A relocated portfolio needs people. Someone has to run each business, staff each location, handle the operations, the service, the logistics, the support. When an owner of 500 companies moves to Miami-Dade and hires residents to qualify for county support, ordinary people get real jobs — and the county gets a stronger tax base, more activity, and more local ownership of its own economy. That is not charity. That is design.
We Don't Need Thousands — We Need to Lead
We don't need to attract thousands to lead the nation. If Miami-Dade brings in even 12, 24, or 48 of these entrepreneurs a year, we are on the map — doing something no other county in America is doing.
And we're doing it from a position of strength. I'm not proposing this in a town of 100,000 or a city of a million. I'm proposing it here, in a county of 2.9 million educated residents. That's the hook. That's the workforce. That's the opportunity — for the entrepreneurs who come, and for the residents of Miami-Dade County who get the jobs.
I'm already doing this in my own life. As Mayor, I'll do it for the county.
Victor J. Rosario — Future Mayor of Miami-Dade County
Executive Order No. 2028-XX
Establishing the Miami-Dade Entrepreneur Relocation & Jobs Initiative to Recruit Multi-Venture Entrepreneurs, Relocate Their Ventures to Miami-Dade County, and Tie County Support to Jobs for Residents
WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County possesses a population of roughly 2.9 million residents, a global port, major airports, a strategic location, and an economy capable of supporting far greater entrepreneurial activity than it currently attracts; and
WHEREAS, the owners of multiple business ventures — entrepreneurs who build and acquire dozens or hundreds of companies — are uniquely valuable to the County, because a single such owner can relocate an entire portfolio of businesses and the jobs that accompany them; and
WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County has historically offered no dedicated program, office, or public point of contact to recruit, welcome, and assist multi-venture entrepreneurs seeking to relocate their businesses to the County; and
WHEREAS, the absence of such a program renders the County effectively invisible to the very entrepreneurs whose relocation would most strengthen the local economy and create the most jobs for residents; and
WHEREAS, artificial intelligence is displacing jobs across industries, and the most durable response available to the County is to attract the entrepreneurs who create jobs at scale; and
WHEREAS, it is the policy of this administration that County support for business relocation shall be conditioned on the creation of jobs for Miami-Dade County residents, so that public assistance always produces public employment; and
WHEREAS, this initiative is intended to benefit all thirteen commission districts and to be developed, where it concerns County finances, in partnership with the Board of County Commissioners.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, as Mayor of Miami-Dade County, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Charter and laws of Miami-Dade County and the State of Florida, do hereby order and direct as follows:
Section 1. Title
This Executive Order shall be known as the "Miami-Dade Entrepreneur Relocation & Jobs Initiative Order."
Section 2. Declaration of County Policy
It is hereby declared to be the policy of this administration that Miami-Dade County shall actively recruit multi-venture entrepreneurs from across the United States and internationally, assist them in relocating their ventures to the County, and condition County support on the creation of jobs for Miami-Dade County residents.
Section 3. Establishment of the Entrepreneur Relocation & Retention Office
There is hereby established, within the Office of the Mayor, an Entrepreneur Relocation & Retention Office charged with recruiting, welcoming, and onboarding multi-venture entrepreneurs relocating to Miami-Dade County.
Section 4. Single Point of Contact
The Office shall serve as a single concierge for each relocating owner, coordinating the state, county, and municipal steps required to move and register a portfolio of businesses, and assisting the owner in determining where to operate within the County.
Section 5. Global Recruitment and Public Visibility
The Office shall proactively recruit entrepreneurs across the United States and internationally and shall ensure that Miami-Dade County publishes, clearly and publicly — including on the County's own website — that the County welcomes and assists multi-venture owners.
Section 6. Jobs-First Incentives
The Mayor shall work with the Board of County Commissioners to develop incentives, including payroll credits, conditioned on the relocating owner qualifying for and providing jobs to Miami-Dade County residents. No such incentive shall be granted absent the creation of qualifying resident jobs.
Section 7. Data, Tracking, and Public Reporting
The Office shall track new business formations and relocations resulting from this initiative and shall report those figures publicly on a regular schedule, so residents can see the jobs and growth produced.
Section 8. Benefit to All Districts
The Office shall coordinate with all thirteen commission districts so that relocations, operations, and hiring are distributed across the County rather than concentrated in any single area.
Section 9. Resident-First Economic Framework
All actions taken pursuant to this Executive Order shall be governed by a resident-first economic framework whose purpose is to create employment for Miami-Dade County residents, broaden the County's tax base, and keep economic activity and ownership within the County.
Section 10. Interdepartmental Coordination
The County Attorney, Finance, economic development staff, and all other relevant departments are directed to support the Office in implementing this initiative consistent with all applicable law.
Section 11. Reporting Requirements
Within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this Executive Order, the Office shall deliver an initial standup plan and a public-welcome framework. Within sixty (60) days, the Office shall deliver a recruitment pipeline, a tracking methodology, and a jobs-tied incentive proposal for the Board's consideration.
Section 12. Implementation Authority
The County Mayor and all relevant County departments are hereby authorized and directed to take all lawful administrative, planning, and operational actions necessary to implement this Executive Order.
Section 13. Severability
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or provision of this Executive Order is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 14. Effective Date
This Executive Order shall take effect immediately upon signature.
Victor J. Rosario — Future Mayor of Miami-Dade County
Commissioner Package — The Miami-Dade Entrepreneur Relocation & Jobs Initiative
Commissioner Package Purpose
This Commissioner Package proposes that Miami-Dade County establish a first-of-its-kind program to recruit multi-venture entrepreneurs from across the United States and around the world, help them relocate their portfolios of businesses to Miami-Dade, and tie county support to the creation of jobs for county residents. The premise is simple: the single most valuable person Miami-Dade could attract is not one corporation, but one owner who controls hundreds of companies — and today the county has no program, no office, and no public front door to bring that person here.
Item Summary for Commissioners
The proposed action directs Miami-Dade County to create a County-run entrepreneur relocation program built on four linked functions. First, an Entrepreneur Relocation & Retention Office inside the Office of the Mayor to serve as a single concierge for relocating owners. Second, a jobs-first incentive framework, developed with the Board of County Commissioners, that conditions county support on hiring Miami-Dade residents. Third, a global recruitment and public-visibility effort so that Miami-Dade is findable and welcoming to multi-venture owners. Fourth, a data, tracking, and rankings function that measures new business formations and relocations and reports them publicly. The package is structured around County control, resident jobs, and measurable results.
Executive Summary
Miami-Dade has the port, the airports, the tourism base, the strategic location, and a population of roughly 2.9 million. What it does not have is a deliberate strategy to attract the entrepreneurs who own not one business, but many. These owners are uniquely valuable: when one relocates, they can bring hundreds of businesses and the jobs that come with them. This package recommends that the county stop waiting passively for growth and instead go recruit it — lawfully, deliberately, and with a clear resident-first condition attached to every incentive.
The urgency is real. Artificial intelligence is reshaping the job market and displacing roles across industries. The most durable answer to that pressure is not to slow technology, but to attract the people who create jobs at scale. This package positions Miami-Dade to do exactly that.
Policy Objectives
The first objective is to make Miami-Dade the most welcoming county in the nation for owners of multiple ventures. The second is to convert that welcome into jobs for residents by conditioning county support on local hiring. The third is to make the county findable and legible to entrepreneurs who are actively deciding where to move. The fourth is to measure and publish the resulting business-formation and relocation data so the public can see the growth. The fifth is to ensure the benefits are spread across all thirteen commission districts rather than concentrated in one area.
Why This Item Belongs Before the Board
This is a governance decision, not a slogan. Establishing a county office, directing county staff, and building an incentive framework that touches county finances are all matters that belong before the Board of County Commissioners. The Board is being asked to decide whether Miami-Dade will behave like a builder county that goes and recruits its own growth, or continue as a passive county that waits and hopes. Because this initiative helps every district, it warrants full Board participation.
How the Model Works
Under this model, a relocating entrepreneur has one place to go: the Entrepreneur Relocation & Retention Office inside the Office of the Mayor. That office coordinates the state, county, and municipal steps required to move and register a portfolio of businesses, and helps the owner decide where to operate. In parallel, the county — working with the Board — offers incentives, including payroll credits, that are earned by hiring a qualifying number of Miami-Dade residents. The county tracks the resulting business formations and reports the numbers publicly. The result is a repeatable pipeline: recruit the owner, relocate the portfolio, condition the support on local jobs, and measure the outcome.
Program: The Entrepreneur Relocation & Retention Office
The first pillar is the concierge office. Its job is to make relocation painless for an owner who controls many companies. It serves as the single point of contact across the state, the county, and the cities; it helps the owner navigate registration, permitting, and siting; and it stays with the owner after arrival to support retention. This is the front door the county has never had.
Program: Jobs-First Incentives
The second pillar is the incentive framework, developed with the Board of County Commissioners. Incentives — including payroll credits — are conditioned on the relocating owner qualifying for and providing jobs to Miami-Dade residents. No local jobs, no incentive. This keeps the program firmly resident-first and ensures county support always translates into county employment. Specific credit structures and thresholds are to be designed with the Board, Finance, and the County Attorney.
Program: Global Recruitment and Public Visibility
The third pillar is outreach and legibility. The county should proactively recruit entrepreneurs across the United States and internationally, and — critically — publish clearly on its own website that Miami-Dade welcomes and assists multi-venture owners. If a serial entrepreneur searches today, the county does not appear. That must change, so the county is discoverable the moment a prospective mover starts looking.
Program: Data, Tracking, and Rankings
The fourth pillar is measurement. Every relocation should be tracked, and new business formations reported publicly on a regular basis. Because a single relocated owner can bring hundreds of businesses, the county's formation and relocation figures can move dramatically — data that positions Miami-Dade at the top of local, state, national, and global comparison tables and attracts the next wave of entrepreneurs.
Resident Impact
The resident case is direct: jobs. Every incentive is earned by hiring residents, so the program's growth is the public's growth. Relocated portfolios need staff across operations, service, logistics, management, and support — straightforward local jobs as well as advanced ones. A stronger business base also broadens the county's tax base and keeps more economic activity, and more ownership of that activity, inside Miami-Dade.
Legal and Administrative Posture
An executive order can establish the office, direct staff, and set the recruitment and public-visibility posture immediately. Incentive structures that touch county finances should be developed in partnership with the Board of County Commissioners, Finance, and the County Attorney, consistent with all applicable law. The county should proceed with the parts it controls now while building the incentive framework with the Board.
Fiscal and Operational Considerations
The Board should expect this to proceed in phases. Phase one stands up the office and the public-facing welcome. Phase two builds the recruitment pipeline and the tracking function. Phase three develops and adopts the jobs-tied incentive framework with the Board. Later phases scale outreach internationally. This sequencing lets the county begin immediately at low cost while reserving financial commitments for the Board's deliberate approval.
Recommended Implementation Framework
First, adopt a Board resolution supporting the initiative. Second, direct a Mayor-led standup of the Entrepreneur Relocation & Retention Office within thirty days. Third, publish the county's welcome and assistance offer online within sixty days. Fourth, deliver a jobs-tied incentive proposal for Board consideration. Fifth, begin quarterly public reporting of relocations and business formations. Each phase should answer the same questions: what does the county control now, what jobs are created, what does it cost, and how is it measured.
Commissioner Talking Points
This item is about going out and recruiting the county's own growth instead of waiting for it. One relocated multi-venture owner can bring hundreds of businesses and the jobs that come with them.
Every incentive is earned by hiring residents. This is a job engine, not a giveaway.
It helps all thirteen districts, and it answers the AI jobs crisis with the people who actually create jobs.
It costs little to begin: the office and the public welcome can start now, while the incentive framework is built with the Board.
FAQ
Why target multi-venture owners specifically?
Because one such owner can bring hundreds of businesses — and hundreds of businesses mean jobs, tax base, and data that moves the county up every ranking table.
Is this a giveaway to the wealthy?
No. Every incentive is conditioned on hiring Miami-Dade residents. County support is earned with county jobs.
Why does the county need an office for this?
Because relocating a portfolio of companies across state, county, and city rules is complex. A single concierge inside the Office of the Mayor makes moving here easy — the front door the county has never had.
How is this different from "Wall Street South"?
Wall Street South chases individual corporate headquarters. This recruits the movers and shakers who own many companies at once — a different and larger prize.
How many does the county need?
Even 12 to 48 of these entrepreneurs a year would make Miami-Dade a national leader in entrepreneur relocation.
Draft Cover Memo to Commissioners
Commissioners, this package proposes that Miami-Dade County do something no county has done deliberately: go recruit the world's serial entrepreneurs and bring their portfolios of businesses here, with county support earned by hiring our residents. The county already has the population, the location, and the appeal. What it lacks is a program, an office, and a public welcome. This package supplies all three and ties them to resident jobs and measurable results. I ask the Board to support establishing the initiative and to partner on the jobs-first incentive framework.
Board Discussion Framing
The central question is whether Miami-Dade wants to keep waiting for growth or go recruit it. Framed correctly, this is not a narrow economic-development item. It is a decision about whether the county behaves like an owner of its own future.
Public Benefit Statement
This initiative would create jobs for residents, broaden the county's tax base, attract the builders who create employment at scale, and move Miami-Dade up the national and global rankings for business formation — all while keeping county support conditioned on county hiring. The benefit is concrete: local jobs, local ownership, and measurable growth.
Fairness and Accountability
The program should publish its recruitment results, its relocation counts, and the jobs created, on a regular public schedule. If the county is going to support entrepreneurs in the name of residents, residents should be able to see the jobs that result. Transparency keeps the program honest and the incentives earned.
Conclusion
Miami-Dade should stop being invisible to the very people who could power its economy. This package builds the office, the welcome, the incentives, and the measurement to bring the world's serial entrepreneurs home — and to turn their ventures into jobs for our residents. It is practical, phased, and resident-first.
Victor J. Rosario — Future Mayor of Miami-Dade County
About Victor J. Rosario
Victor J. Rosario is the Residents-First candidate for Miami-Dade County Mayor 2028. A U.S. Coast Guard veteran, entrepreneur, technologist, and artist, Victor brings a track record of building real solutions — from AI tools to campaign policy — that serve Miami-Dade's 2.9 million residents.
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