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Spartanburg business host Carolina Strong Market, supporting artists after Helene [Video]

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – It’s been over a month and small businesses—especially those in Western North Carolina are still working their way back from Helene. Reinvintage Warehouse in Spartanburg is finding creative ways to help.

“If it’s not impacting your day to day, you kind of forget that so many people are still hurting so badly,” said Danielle Kaminski, the Co-Owner of Reinvintage Warehouse.

The River Arts District, a hub for Western North Carolina artists, was destroyed. As upstate creator suffered from flooding. More than a month later—the damage still hitting small business hard.

“We were closed down for a week here because of no power, but we just felt really lucky to have something to come back to and to not have the destruction that a lot of people saw. and we were trying to figure out ways that we could contribute. and we were like, well, we’ve …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine