Categories
Small Business Funding

Whataburgers to host fundraiser for Blue Santa shopping spree with kids [Video]

This is the sixth year the Whataburger franchisee will support Blue Santas.

TYLER, Texas — For a couple of hours Tuesday night, a purchase at 23 East Texas Whataburger locations will go toward funding area Blue Santa programs. 

Every December, local first responders host shopping sprees for children, where they receive about $100 to shop at Walmarts across East Texas with local law enforcement officers and first responders. 

From 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Whataburger franchisee DKT Investments is hosting a fundraiser with half of the sales going to the Blue Santa initiative. There will be Blue Santas at the Whataburger restaurants. 

Participating locations include: 

  • Tyler
  • Lindale
  • Chapel Hill
  •  Henderson
  •  Kilgore
  •  Liberty City
  • Gilmer
  • Chandler
  • Mineola
  • Bullard
  • Whitehouse 
  • Pittsburg

This is the sixth year the Whataburger franchisee will support Blue Santas. 

The impacted Blue Santas include Camp County Christmas for Kids Blue Santa, East Texas Fraternal Order of Police Blue Santa, Henderson Police Department Blue …

Watch/Read More
Categories
Small Business Funding

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