{"id":12701,"date":"2022-07-20T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/20\/dionne-sandiford-launches-a-cozy-concept\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:49:23","slug":"dionne-sandiford-launches-a-cozy-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dionne-sandiford-launches-a-cozy-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL: Dionne Sandiford launches a cozy concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur, business owner and self-described &#8220;threadmaster&#8221; Dionne Sandiford knows you don&#8217;t have to go it alone when launching a business venture or product. Sandiford, owner of Corporate Stitch, leaned on The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University and GVL Starts to unveil her latest product, Cozy Covers, for which she is seeking a patent.<\/p>\n<p>In an article appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/startups\/startup-dionne-sandiford-launches-a-cozy-concept-for-kids\/\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a>, Sandiford said, \u201cPeople who say they did \u2018blank\u2019 all by themselves, they\u2019re extremely narcissistic or they are just plain lying, because you cannot possibly do even the most insignificant thing by yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur, business owner and self-described &#8220;threadmaster&#8221; Dionne Sandiford knows you don&#8217;t have to go it alone when launching a business venture or product. Sandiford, owner of Corporate Stitch, leaned on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,81,1],"tags":[166,1531,1532,1533],"class_list":["post-12701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-uncategorized","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-minority-owned-business","tag-small-business-venture","tag-woman-owned-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}