A Georgia woman found it pays to go on national TV. Diana Harbour, who started an Athens-based business after leaving her job in a corporate cubicle, scored on the latest episode of ABC’s popular Shark Tank.
In the show that aired Friday, investors Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec agreed to pay $1.2 million for a 20 percent stake in Harbour's business, The Red Dress Boutique.
Harbour, 33, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the terms of the deal changed after the show was taped last year. Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, ended up buying into the business alone, paying $600,000 for 15 percent of the company.
Harbour launched a clothing boutique in Athens, but she and her husband Josh branched into online sales as a side project. The side project took off and now accounts for more than 90 percent of the business, which she said is on pace to generate at least $12 million in sales this year. Harbour described how she did it in an AJC Secrets of Success column last year.
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