February 2011 Vol. 24 No. 2
The Voice of Kitsap Business since 1988
Something To Smile About… Business partners build a successful dental practice balancing work and life. By Rodika Tollefson Port Orchard dentists Marta Costa and Miranda Dageenakis have been partners in their practice for nine years. Working together has allowed them to balance work and family: Both are parents and by working only three days a week, each is able to spend time with their children as well as their patients. Dageenakis contacted several dentists in the area when she found out her husband, Michael, was being transferred with the Navy to Puget Sound from Chicago. When Costa replied, the two women met for coffee — and became friends. “We hit it right off the bat,” Dageenakis said. They say a business partnership is just like a marriage — it comes with give and take. “It has to be 50-50,” Costa said. Costa had a practice in Seattle for nine years and started a second one in Port Orchard in 1997. Five years later, a new mom to an adopted daughter, she didn’t want to commute and focused her attention on Port Orchard. She knew she didn’t want L-R: Dr. Miranda Dageenakis and Dr. Marta Costa
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Inside Special Reports: Women In Business, pp 4-11 Area Nonprofits, pp 26-29
Financial, pp 12-13
Editorial, pp 36-38
Technology, pg 15 Human Resources, pg 16 Real Estate, pp 23-24 Environment, pg 33 Automotive, pp 34, 35
Port Orchard Chamber, pg 32 Home Builders Newsletter, pp 19-22