April 2019
The Untold Kanga Story: Where it All Began
SHARK TANK - "1018" - First into the Tank is an entrepreneur from North Bergen, New Jersey, who introduces a traditional hand-held food snack from his Argentinian culture. Entrepreneurs from Nashville, Tennessee, pitch their smart security product to help keep intruders out of the home. A trio of entrepreneurs from Clemson, South Carolina, present their…
Move Up: Quick Guide for Great Places to Work and Live
The Upstate SC Alliance has launched the “Move Up” campaign to showcase towns in a 10-county region as great places to work and live. The announcement was made at the 2019 Annual Meeting, with nearly 500 business leaders in attendance. More than 10,000 employers posted more than 200,000 unique jobs in the Upstate within…
Kopis Named Small Business Of The Month
The Greenville Business Magazine reports that Kopis, a leading software development company, was recently named Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Month. Founded in 1999, Kopis has deep roots in the South Carolina technology community. With senior experience specializing in database administration and application development for healthcare and automotive manufacturing, they have a…
Digital Maven: Lessons learned from big corporations’ data breaches
By Laura Haight, March 28, 2019 – Failure is the best determinant of future success. There are a lot of more inspiring quotes on the subject than this, but the point is the same. To help us all learn from others’ mistakes, periodically I like to take a current event and dig into what we can learn from…