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1 Million Cups weekly entrepreneurs' networking and education meeting. This is where new businesses present their strategies, where established businesses share their successes (and failures), and where entrepreneurs of all types of businesses and experience get to know each other. This is where you make valuable connections to help you succeed.

Come meet 4 local recently patented inventors and innovators determined to becoming successful entrepreneurs, build new companies and job opportunities right here in Columbia South Carolina! Each presenter will have 5 minutes to present and 3 for Q&A. Everyone present can vote for the winner.

Laura Boccanfuso, CEO of Van Robotics, is presenting live and in-person this Wednesday (Sep 8, 2021) at 9 am on her journey to create an artificially intelligent smart robot tutor to help students learn.

Kia Brow, owner of The Sweet Shop SC, is in the process of opening a storefront bakery in the Rosewood area. Learn from her story about how she is taking her bakery from her home to a physical storefront and how she is making the transition from a home-based business.

Learn about a business launched out of the pandemic with the intend to provide a DHEC-approved kitchen space for food entrepreneurs to prep before and after business hours.

At Nurse Adina, they provide concierge service to cancer patients and their families. Adina Maynard with Nurse Adina shares her entrepreneurial story at this 1 Million Cups meeting.

Build your business and create new relationships with people from other cultures right here in the South Carolina Midlands. It's much less expensive to do business with vendors, clients, and customers from other cultures right here in our own backyard than it is to expand to other locations geographically.

DigitWorks Media is a full-service digital marketing agency that manages all aspects of a clients’ online presence. Owner, Brett Groller, will tell us what he does to market his clients online and help them increase their profits.

DreamLeader is transforming how companies organize their project team spaces, processes and project deliverables. With a focus on organized web (SaaS) assets and link-shared documents, Dany and Tommy are working with other ambitious technology companies to take on the legacy team site-builders of the early 2000’s.

Learn about reputation and identity-theft protection from Validide. This is what your potential employers will check before hiring you. Through the ValidIDe system you are in total control of your personal information and how much of it you share.

Learn how a local non-profit organization is helping small businesses connect with customers by emphasizing convenience and security at the local level. Jessica Loch of Connected We Rise will describe their strategies to not only promote local small businesses but also thrive as a local small business, themselves, by helping others.

Learn about business planning and development from international expert, Shennice Cleckley of Smart Cookie Coaching.