{"id":2003,"date":"2018-05-22T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/studio\/the-ultimate-secret-for-successful-startups-like-wine-design\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T02:27:00","slug":"the-ultimate-secret-for-successful-startups-like-wine-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/the-ultimate-secret-for-successful-startups-like-wine-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Secret for Successful Startups like Wine & Design!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ultimate Secret for Successful Startups<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By: Darien Smartt | The Newsletter Pro Way<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to read <\/span>full<\/span> article!<\/span><\/p>\n

There are some life events we have time to prepare for, like having a new baby. And there are some we’re often blindsided by, like being laid off. When Harriet Mills found herself in a situation where both overlapped, she had almost no savings to fall back on. So, she packed up and moved back in with her parents.<\/p>\n

Just kidding.<\/p>\n

She took a deep breath, had a glass of wine, and made plans to start her own company. Inspired by her experiences at a local paint-and-sip studio in Charleston, South Carolina, Mills opened Wine & Design<\/a>, a place where friends get together, drink some great wine, and paint their next masterpiece.<\/p>\n

“I call it my brushstroke of luck,” Mills said. “It hit me that this concept of group painting for fun is a largely untapped business opportunity. I didn’t create a masterpiece painting on my Charleston trip. But I eventually created a master plan that would make this business take off.”<\/p>\n

Mills took an experience she enjoyed and replicated it in her own community. What started as a single-studio startup in Raleigh, North Carolina, grew to a franchise with close to 100 locations across the nation, earned Mills the Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Award in 2016, and led her to strike a deal with Shark Tank’s<\/em><\/a> Kevin O’Leary in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the greatest examples of successful startups came when clever entrepreneurs adapted to the unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/apex-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}