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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Double-post, but this time I come bearing content. I think I saw an update on those golf shoes, and I think that the deal fell through for some reason. Jim said something about the numbers not quite being there. I think they were relatively successful, though, but I guess not terribly so since I don't think I've ever heard of anyone ever buying shoes like that. That pizza box dude, though. $80k on that, geez.
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Guy has a pretty cool product, but guy himself is quite the oddball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZC9tpcB21E#t=8m50s
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Feb 8, 2015 16:22
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Here's the worst solution to homelessness I've ever seen.
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Feb 8, 2015 17:23
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I have no idea how the Bevboy even got two offers. Two really good offers considering that they have like no sales, the pitchman has negative charisma, and the product is crap. Kevin was absolutely in the right on this one.
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Feb 9, 2015 21:52
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I may be mistaken but I swear once on Shark Tank a guy brought in a golf club that you could piss in while golfing. I think he even got a deal for it. It's too bad no one has approached them with a "Jump to Conclusions" style game yet.
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Feb 9, 2015 22:02
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Trebek posted:I may be mistaken but I swear once on Shark Tank a guy brought in a golf club that you could piss in while golfing. I think he even got a deal for it. It was either posted earlier in the thread or it was in an episode that was posted, but yeah I remember that one. I don't think he got a deal though. I just watched one the other day where Kevin O'Leary took his pants off on live tv. Of course, he wears whitie tighties. I would post a link but nobody wants to see that. Oh and there was one where Kevin brings this guy they made a deal with on Dragon's Den to the set of Shark Tank to talk to Mark Cuban about their product. Its some app for hockey teams and fans and he wants Mark to take it on for the Mavs. Mark takes 1 minute to look at the app and then tells him absolutely no way. You can see in Kevin's eyes that he realizes he made a poo poo deal. I should find that one...
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GrandpaPants posted:I have no idea how the Bevboy even got two offers. Two really good offers considering that they have like no sales, the pitchman has negative charisma, and the product is crap. Kevin was absolutely in the right on this one. It may be stupid, but never underestimate dumb novelty products you can market to drunks. Zaphod42 posted:It was either posted earlier in the thread or it was in an episode that was posted, but yeah I remember that one. I don't think he got a deal though. I believe you're looking for this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGV6Si_zso&t=1378s Arsonist Daria has a new favorite as of 01:22 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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This is magical. I'm not going to say anything. I don't want to spoil it. [http://youtu.be/VqIXBZk9uxc?t=25m40s Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I believe you're looking for this. Yep! He pitches sooo hard, and Mark is just like "yeah... nope."  It is an app called "Shnarped" though, where you e-pound with athletes. I think the dragons only bought in because they got caught up in the hockey 
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Feb 10, 2015 10:27
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Oh boy. Guy pitches his service for people without internet access to fax him a message with intended recipients, which he will then email for you and send any replies to you via fax. Also, calls Brett "Brent." Robert: "Please tell me you work for IBM, because they're one of my competitors." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un6pRnm56Rc Um...supposed to start at 18:30, but time doesn't seem to work for me, so...NWS for titties?
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Feb 10, 2015 21:06
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Eggbeater Jesus posted:Oh boy. Guy pitches his service for people without internet access to fax him a message with intended recipients, which he will then email for you and send any replies to you via fax. Also, calls Brett "Brent." I came for the fax machine to e-mail middleman, stayed for the thing that lets women pee upright 
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Feb 10, 2015 21:33
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I've become obsessed with this show because of this thread. Guy wants to make hockey rings circular, also member of the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maNwjbUNLnY&t=548s Kids want to buy the rights to a gold mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co3m0-gNjd4&t=1548s
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Feb 11, 2015 11:41
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Guy tries to re-invent golf to make it easier: http://youtu.be/_IfXVv_k-No?t=8m56s He's invested just short of one million dollars. Arlene actually starts crying. He was living in a trailer because he invested all his money in the project. Why not just live off the million dollars?!  Oh boy.Income over 15 years was 180K. At the end after all the Dragons beg him to give up on his money burning endeavor, his post-pitch video he says "I will continue for sure" 
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Feb 11, 2015 20:48
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http://youtu.be/pNRbPoDiLmk?t=3m41s Guy tries pitching a dvd of baseball rules, gets torn to shreds by the dragons. The post-pitch interview is great. "They're asking me the wrong questions! Typical Canadian questions! Who's going to buy it? Rather than looking at the market potential."
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Feb 12, 2015 01:20
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Well, this is different: http://youtu.be/HonyaZicvmY?t=9m24s Some guys pitch their book about a real-life story of their harrowing journey through human smuggling. The dragons are all very taken by it, Robert in particular gets teary. Here's the twist though. I've been watching all these episodes where Kevin O'Leary is the bad guy, (Crush you like cockroaches that you are!) and Robert is like the nicest guy, the one who even if he shoots you down, he'll tell you he liked your product. (usually, unless its really dumb) Jim can kinda come in-between, but he can be a real hardass sometimes. Oddly enough Robert feels like their pitch is just charity, and is very against it on moral grounds because its charity (?!?!?!) because his father didn't believe in charity. Meanwhile Jim is pretty much ready to just give them the money for free, because of how terrible their life experience was. Kevin is also completely willing to give them some money and set up a book deal, charity or not. Bizzaro Dragons. Also, Arlene seems to agree with Robert, and he responds with "That's bullshit!" which offends the hell out of her. It does seem like something was edited out, but I'm not sure she was mocking him the way he seemed to think. I guess Robert was just having a bad day?  Hell, all the Dragons end up acting like children in this episode.
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Feb 12, 2015 01:52
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Robert is really easy to make angry if he thinks someone is getting something for nothing or is getting a business deal as charity. He has a whole thing about how he started out as a kid on a muddy little farm somewhere in Europe and now he's a big deal through endless hours of hard work so he gets pissed if he thinks someone is getting a free lunch with a sob story. He gets set off that way a few times on the show but yeah that's the biggest.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:41
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The charity thing was weird, and it really did feel like something was missing. I think the general impression was that they didn't want to take a part of the business to make a phone call since the story sells itself (although Robert has taken a small cut for this too), but that was a weird implosion of the dragons. The book is actually available on Amazon: http://smile.amazon.com/Price-Freed...rice+of+freedom
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Feb 13, 2015 04:02
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my takeaway was more or less that robert didn't think it was a good investment and that it would be insulting to give them money just out of pity (because he/his family wouldn't have wanted charity like that). i did watch the episode like a month ago though
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Feb 13, 2015 04:58
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:Robert is really easy to make angry if he thinks someone is getting something for nothing or is getting a business deal as charity. He has a whole thing about how he started out as a kid on a muddy little farm somewhere in Europe and now he's a big deal through endless hours of hard work so he gets pissed if he thinks someone is getting a free lunch with a sob story. He gets set off that way a few times on the show but yeah that's the biggest. Yeah, in the gold mine episode with the kids he calls them out for being spoiled rich kids that have no idea what they're doing. Thing is in that case I completely agree.  But a bunch of poor immigrant dudes? That's a whole other story. I really hate when rich people who worked hard and ended up rich assume that anybody who also works equally hard will get equally rich. I need to go find more episodes where Jeff Foxworthy was a shark...
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Eggbeater Jesus posted:Oh boy. Guy pitches his service for people without internet access to fax him a message with intended recipients, which he will then email for you and send any replies to you via fax. Also, calls Brett "Brent." I love it when the pitches are hilariously dated and out of touch. I mean, who did this guy think these people are who have fax machines but no internet access? Doesn't beat RapCat though for something that's a couple decades out of date though.
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Feb 13, 2015 05:55
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Zaphod42 posted:I really hate when rich people who worked hard and ended up rich assume that anybody who also works equally hard will get equally rich. Robert Herjavec summed up in one sentence.
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Zaphod42 posted:Well, this is different: Yeah, that one is weird. "I don't want to give you charity, but yet I'll call the president of Harper-Collins for you." WTF, Robert? Arlene nails it when she says she's disappointed that it's turned into The Gong Show.
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Feb 13, 2015 12:11
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BattleMaster posted:I love it when the pitches are hilariously dated and out of touch. I mean, who did this guy think these people are who have fax machines but no internet access?
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Better Life cleaning products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VDjknlS2AM I thought it was a really interesting exchange of partnerships and broken partnerships. Like wow, it was almost hard to keep up with what the hell was happening. I think Lori has a pretty huge advantage though on this show, since so many products are perfect for her, and she has ridiculous retail penetration. Edit: The second one is pretty hilarious too. GrandpaPants has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Feb 13, 2015 21:40
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Schizophrenic Orb posted:http://youtu.be/pNRbPoDiLmk?t=3m41s -*clenches fist* "What does that mean?" -"That means he's out." -"...Exactly" Holy poo poo that was fantastic. 
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A couple from the UK series, my favourite success story, Levi Roots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQTzLJCUtjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQifmrOoUuo And from the Junior special a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsm-Mzd9_lM
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Schizophrenic Orb posted:http://youtu.be/pNRbPoDiLmk?t=3m41s Mods please namechange to Typical Canadian Questions
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http://youtu.be/km2tnb9tA8Q?t=26m48s Woman from a town of 1000 people decides to renovate how subways work. Despite many of the examples in this thread making it look like the dragons all hate each other, in this one you can tell they actually all get along 
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Super awkward nerd tries to get funding for making her self-published fantasy novel into a movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiQ2nUfmoD8 Starts at 16 minutes. http://youtu.be/KiQ2nUfmoD8?t=16m47s "How do we know the book isn't rubish?" "Its been book of the month on three of the fantasy yahoo groups." Funding denied, but she made it anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3uJU_PAp5Q Cornuto has a new favorite as of 15:12 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Cornuto posted:Super awkward nerd tries to get funding for making her self-published fantasy novel into a movie. Haha, some pro-click here. Usually the UK version on DD seems a bit more reserved than its cousins on this side of the pond, but they just tear into this woman (and rightfully so). Oh god, that trailer. I'll save y'all the trouble: I checked IMDB and not a single actor attached to this hot mess has been in anything bigger than a bit part on Doctor Who.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Haha, some pro-click here. Usually the UK version on DD seems a bit more reserved than its cousins on this side of the pond, but they just tear into this woman (and rightfully so). Oh god, that trailer. Maybe she needed the funding to get the "only real pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean. Peter Jones's response was really weird, though. I really wanted to know what was going through his head.
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Well, the most recent episode of Dragon's Den (UK) had guy who wanted £180k for his business which was firing drone strikes at Pirates, he seemed genuinely surprised that he was rejected. It's on the iPlayer as of right now for all to see!
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GrandpaPants posted:That being said, here is a pitch that (eventually) caused Kevin to cry: http://youtu.be/bmg5oqXWskY?t=28m4s As few pages ago, but this one REALLY confused me. Japan has the world's third highest GDP, so why were the sharks so focused on how the clubs need to be marketed by pros in the US? Kronos could make plenty of money in Japan and then use that to enter the US market, they just needed the startup money for it.
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I was nearly in tears laughing at this. I'm disappointed I didn't get to hear him explain how "environment" fit into his concept, considering he plans to tear up 500 acres of farmland to build his nightmare castle. And his weird silent eyebrow-less man-wife standing there the whole time just gave a real freakshow vibe to the craziness.
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GrandpaPants posted:I think I saw an update on those golf shoes, and I think that the deal fell through for some reason. Jim said something about the numbers not quite being there. I think they were relatively successful, though, but I guess not terribly so since I don't think I've ever heard of anyone ever buying shoes like that. I was really curious about this deal so I did some googling. They're definitely not for sale, but their website is still up. I guess he said he got it licensed a few years ago and picked a factory and all that but then die an IndieGoGo run for another $250,000 I think. The last news I could find is he's getting sued by his initial investors. So I think the shoes are toast.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mTmuy4fHo This episode starts with milk that tastes like cereal, which is okay whatever. But the sharks get on their case about how they don't want to market it to kids because there's an obesity epidemic and it's 170 calories and 20g of sugar (that they misprinted as 24g). But then the next product is literally just edible cookie dough and nobody gives a poo poo about health. Also, for some reason they balked at being offered $100k for 40% with two sharks despite having dick all for sales, but I guess it ended alright for them. Edit: The segment after that is really brutal too. Like, drat, I feel bad for that guy (and his insane debt). GrandpaPants has a new favorite as of 07:10 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Hmm, yes, insulting the Dragons is surely the way to get their money! One where I'm actually siding with Kevin for a change. Starts at 17:45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZUOdED9J8 "What a bunch of rude people." Dude, have you ever watched this show? You interrupted Kevin and called him a liar. What did you expect? (In preview before I post, Youtube's showing me the still of Kevin in the Anne of Green Gables hat with pigtails, that clip's pretty funny, too. Comes right before the one I'm talking about.)
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Part of Everything posted:I was nearly in tears laughing at this. The way Brett turns the deal (using that word loosely) down is also great. "Sorry, I live in Alberta. Too far of a drive." Goddamn it, Shark Tank needs more nutcases like this guy.
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This awkward dude was on season 1 of Canadian Dragon's Den to pitch an eyeglasses store for women only that would... give you fashionable eyeglasses advise? The dragons were brutal and chased him out. He's been invited back for season 7. He admits his last idea was bad, but now he's got a new one: A store for women only that would... help you put on fake eyelashes? But no, its not a spa or a hair salon, ONLY eyelashes. http://youtu.be/dHF8o5pdRXM?t=17m56s He should really stop trying to solve problems for a demographic he doesn't remotely understand.  Jim actually stands up and re-does the guy's pitch for him, to show him how obviously wrong his business model is. "Everybody today wants eyelashes!" "I don't want a salary! I'm an entrepreneur!"  GrandpaPants posted:Maybe she needed the funding to get the "only real pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean. Peter Jones's response was really weird, though. I really wanted to know what was going through his head. I think Peter Jones was just trying not to say anything really aggressively mean. That's how I'd respond to half the pitches on DD or ST, I'd just be like "......... I'm out." Because If I say word one, I am going to loving lay into you SO hard. Not that they don't deserve it, but... eh. If everybody's out, its over. Then again some pitches are so bad I'd just have to say something. JacquelineDempsey posted:Hmm, yes, insulting the Dragons is surely the way to get their money! One where I'm actually siding with Kevin for a change. To be fair, he looks like he's blind. He probably hasn't watched the show before, you dick!
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This is my favorite: http://www.topgear.com/au/videos/1901-clarkson-in-the-dragons-den
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