{"id":1974,"date":"2018-01-19T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/studio\/wine-designs-shark-tank-journey\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:22:31","slug":"wine-designs-shark-tank-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wine-designs-shark-tank-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine &#038; Design&#8217;s Shark Tank Journey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/message\/k0lawb\/86mqyjb\">Click here<\/a> to read more about our experience and journey with Shark Tank!<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder and CEO, Harriet Mills, alongside her husband, Patrick Mills, flew out to LA to share&nbsp;their successful growth by providing an inside look at their current business model with Wine &amp; Design. Harriet, a millennial entrepreneur stepped into the tank eager to evaluate her fast-growing business from a different perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The morning before her TV debut, Harriet and staff were up early at 4:00am for hair and make-up with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merakibeauty.org\/\">m <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merakibeauty.org\/\">e r<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merakibeauty.org\/\"> a k <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merakibeauty.org\/\">a <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merakibeauty.org\/\">i<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merakibeauty.org\/\">&nbsp; beauty<\/a>!! They even had their very own trailer!<\/p>\n<p>Nerves were kicking in high gear, and it was finally showtime!<\/p>\n<p><em>Instead of just pitching the numbers to ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;shark&rdquo; investors, the pair behind the wine-and-sip franchise brought out &ldquo;Richard,&rdquo; a model who &ndash; to the surprise of the &ldquo;Sharks,&rdquo; completely disrobed. It&rsquo;s a bachelorette party, Mills explained onscreen amid shocked faces.<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; Triangle Business Journal, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Does Richard come with every party?&quot; said Lori Greiner<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;When we put this on Shark Tank, their reaction was &#39;Oh my gosh&#39;, they were yelling to the producers &#39;Oh my gosh I can&#39;t believe you&#39;re doing this, this is crazy&#39; and all I could do was laugh because it was funny to see their reaction.&quot;<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; Harriet Mills, CEO\/Founder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a WONDERFUL Day! Wine &amp; Design hooked a deal with Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O&#39;Leary!<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy that&nbsp;Kevin&nbsp;is part of the team and he&nbsp;brings&nbsp;lots of good partnerships to Wine &amp; Design&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/em>&#8211; Harriet Mills, CEO\/Founder<\/p>\n<p>Kevin O&#39;Leary experienced his first pARTy at our Wine &amp; Design Burbank (Magnolia Park) studio!<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#39;s a very successful model because if you can get more franchisees to open faster, everything works for everybody,&rdquo; O&rsquo;Leary said a recent interview. &ldquo;I want the franchisees to become rich. That&#39;s the whole point of this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, Kevin O&#39;Leary debuted his modeling side at our Wine &amp; Design Wake Forest studio for a Shark Tank Update follow-up and celebrated our 1 millionth masterpiece!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to join the pARTy? <a href=\"https:\/\/wineanddesign.com\/franchise\/\">Learn more<\/a> about Franchising opportunities and bring a Wine &amp; Design to your city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look back on our journey and update with Shark Tank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art-inspiration"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/raleigh-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}