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Currently in its tenth season, ABC reality show Shark Aquarium has spent years seducing an eager audience to watch aspiring entrepreneurs realize their dreams and get torn by the panel. The current rotating selection of successful business men and women who make or break these ambitious millionaires includes Mark Cuban, Kevin O 'Leary, Lori Grenier, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran, as well as celebrity guest investors such as Ashton Kutcher, Jeff Foxworthy, Alex Rodriguez, Richard Branson, Bethenny Frankel and Charles Barkley.
We can not deny that Shark Aquarium has led to considerable success for a few fortunate few, some of whom have continued to have billion-dollar businesses and whose success has long overshadowed the fact that it is "Seen on Shark Tank"For about two weeks, at Target or Bed Bath and Beyond, and if viewers like to see such success, there is also a definite interest in getting in tune and seeing some of the ridiculous things people are trying to watch the Sharks cut them at the waist.
All bad sites do not mean bad products, and all the amazing sites are not meant for the right products. To convince the Sharks to bite, you need good salesmanship and a convincing business idea. On the other hand, some potentially successful companies are not always presented in the right way, which applies to some of the elements of this list. The others, however, were absurd products that had no chance, and were obviously only transmitted by producers who knew what bad ideas were going to produce good television.
25 Worse: NoPhone
We all spend too much time looking at our electronic devices – and at the same time, we are all bored by other people who spend too much time watching their electronic appliances. The solution? According to the inventors of NoPhone, this is a block of wood that looks like a phone and is supposed to erase the itch to hold something, but without the distraction that arises from a real smartphone.
Rightly considering that it was a ridiculous gift that only a few dozen people would find enough entertainment to buy, the Sharks immediately refused to answer NoPhone, while wondering why the producers had even left them on television rather than by thousands of budding entrepreneurs. real business to promote.
24 Worse: Throx
Where are all our missing socks? This is one of those "problems" that must make us laugh and that never really misses sleep. But Throx has taken the problem of missing socks seriously enough to create a business all around.
The big idea behind Throx is that these are socks that come in packs of three instead of two, which means that if you lose one, you already have a stock ready to use. Of course, unless you constantly lose your socks, it simply means that you have a drawer full of third wheel socks that serve no purpose other than to take up space. The sharks thought this idea was stinking and full of holes and transmitted it.
23 The best: Kodiak cakes
Experts to earn money through investments, the Sharks are not immune from mistakes. All along Shark AquariumIn ten seasons, they have pbaded on a number of products that have then enjoyed considerable success, even without their help – well, apart from the visibility of television.
The Sharks, Kevin in particular, pointed out to the founders of Kodiak Cakes that there was nothing special about the mix of pancakes and that it was a market pretty well grabbed by some big hitters. Some offers were offered, but when the guys from Kodiak did not accept the terms, the Sharks came out. Today, Kodiak is the fourth largest brand of pancake mixes and generates annual profits of more than $ 50 million.
22 Worst: Boss Squirrel
This is certainly an irritating problem: you take out a bird feeder and fill it with seeds and other treats for your feathered friends, so that greedy squirrels come to see them and serve themselves. Michael DeSanti, creator of Squirrel Boss, has decided that the only way to discourage squirrels from invading your bird feeders is to shock them. Literally.
You may be wondering how Squirrel Boss knows the difference between birds and squirrels when it comes to what should shock and what to leave alone. That's where the problem lies – this is not the case. The Sharks collectively rolled their eyes when they discovered that Squirrel Boss requires that you constantly monitor the device and that you have to press a button to activate the shock. Between that and the high price of the product, all Squirrel Boss products have been an investment.
21 Worst: Waffles Wired
In the world today, who has time to have breakfast and to drink coffee? This means that busy adults must constantly choose between food and caffeine in the morning. Not anymore! Now you can have your breakfast and caffeine in a convenient place by eating a Wired Waffle. Really you could to have if the company that made Wire Waffles was still in business.
Among the Sharks' concerns about grilled waffles, there was the fact that they were easily imitated (you can not really add caffeine to a brand), the inherent risk that children will accidentally eat and the lack of sale of the product before the presentation (about $ 1000 in total.) Oh, and there was also the not insignificant problem, namely that they just did not look very good. After a brief increase in sales after the episode, Wired Waffles will soon be unplugged.
20 Best: The Bouqs Co.
One of the main reasons why flowers are so expensive is that you pay for the different middlemen involved in the process between the moment the flowers are picked in the ground and the moment they are delivered to your loved one's home or office . John Tabis founded The Bouqs Co. with the idea that flowers could only be sold directly to consumers.
For various reasons, Tabis did not reach an agreement when it appeared Shark Aquarium in 2014. But Shark Robert Herjavec suddenly noticed the mistake of his way when he needed flowers for his wedding and decided to contact Tabis not only as a customer, but also as a customer. ;investor. Bouqs has barely earned a million dollars in its first year of existence – it sometimes does it sometimes on a Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.
19 Worse: Cougar Energy
While the so-called energy drinks have been around for a long time, it's only when Red Bull launched his "it gives you wings!" advertising campaign in the late 90s, the packaged drinks market has really taken off. However, most energy drinks seem to specifically target not only men, but young men – and Cougar Energy aimed to change that.
Beyond the creaky finding that Cougar Limited as a whole was the brain of a man about 20 years old who had something for older women, the Sharks sent that cougar back into his cage after not being impressed by the taste of Cougar Energy. weak sales and an extremely narrow – and somewhat contentious – population.
18 Worse: the lean mirror
Women deserve to feel beautiful and have the right to do what they choose to do to feel that way. But sometimes products designed to make women look better are designed to trick them into disappointment.
A mirror that makes a leaner woman appear is not bad in itself. The problem that the Sharks had with Skinny Mirror is that its creator intended to sell it to the shops rather than to the consumers, which might incite women to think that they were going to be wrong. only one way in a new outfit at the store, before going home and seeing a different picture (read: the real one) when they go home and look at themselves in an undeformed mirror. All Skinny Mirror did was show the Sharks its true dishonest purpose.
17 Best: BedJet
Investors like to make money. The main reason they invest in a product is because they are convinced that it will allow them to recover their investment plus their profits. But there is also something to say to really want to as the people you do business with, and that's where the entrepreneur Mark Aramli has been struggling during his Shark Aquarium episode.
Aramli just seemed to rub the Sharks the wrong way, and he found them too arrogant – so much so that they apparently did not see the earning potential of his product, BedJet. Following its appearance in the series, where the five Sharks spent their temperature control system in bed, the Aramli BedJet has become one of the most successful Shark Aquarium always reject.
16 The worst: the elephant cat
There is nothing fun about a failed marriage – despite what Ms. Doubtfire led us to believe. And nothing can destroy a marriage more than a lack of communication. But what can be done to help couples who are struggling to attack the elephant in the room at some point?
Jason and Amanda Adams have decided to take this metaphor to the letter and have created Elephant Cat, a stuffed elephant placed in a box that must go out whenever an "elephant in the room" needs to be discussed. This is supposed to let your partner know that it is time to have a serious discussion. By holding a small stuffed elephant you have pulled out of a plastic box. It costs sixty dollars. Do we really need to tell you how this launch happened or what happened to the product since?
15 Worse: Nootrobox
Here is yet another product designed for people who want to take a cup of caffeine in the most practical way possible, because, apparently, sipping a coffee or taking a sip of soda is just too complicated for hard-working people.
Nootrobox is a company that makes caffeine-infused sugar cubes, their star product being chewable cubes. Sound tasty? We did not think so. The problem that the Sharks had with the preparation – which also contained something called L-Theanine for allegedly reducing the anxiety of caffeine – is that the long-term health risks could be related to the mixed caffeine concentration to other chemicals. Add to that the exaggerated valuation of Nootrobox and the Sharks send their bags to Nootrobox.
14 Best: Copa De Vino
Very few people have the chance to launch their product on Shark Aquarium. Even fewer people have a second chance – but that's what happened to James Martin, founder of the on-the-go wine company Copa Di Vino.
While initially attracting the attention of the Sharks, they soon turned to him for his arrogant attitude. After a start without a contract, the success of Copa Di Vino exploded, so much so that the producers decided to bring it back to the following season. Martin himself later confessed that he had mostly come back on the face of the Sharks – especially Kevin – that he was succeeding without them. After slyly drinking his wine in a large part of his land while showing little interest in what they said, the Sharks threw it a second time on the sidewalk.
13 Worst: an original human candle
Despite the degree of progressivity of our society, we still can not question the notion that some products are "for women" and others for "men". And some have less meaning than others, as the idea that wanting to burn candles for your home to emit a pleasant smell is largely a female goal.
Enter the Original Man candle – not to be confused with all other candles man, apparently – that makes candles more masculine by means of unique scents. Some are not terrific, like the barbecue or the golf course, but the owner, Johnson Bailey, went too far in making candles that smelled of beer and, of course, flatulence. The Sharks did not come to an agreement here and handed Candle Original Man Candle between two bursts of laughter.
12 Best: Eco nuts
Many people come to Shark Aquarium Present ideas that aim to rethink a common product through a more nature-oriented approach. Eco Nuts' Scott Shields and Mona Weiss have embarked on this journey with a range of soaps and soap-based cleaning products that naturally produce soap and are known as soap nuts.
When Shield and Weiss explained to the Sharks what huge percentage of the soap berry market had been reserved for Eco Nuts, the Sharks asked what was the size of such a market – and burst out laughing when the answer got them cost about $ 1 million a year. Challenging the small size of the market and other aspects of this field that did not unanimously, the Sharks got rid of Eco Nuts – although it remains active and well-off. that it actually attracts most of the annual soap berry market, which amounts to millions of dollars. .
11 Worse: UroClub
Dr. Floyd Seskin started his Shark Aquarium pitch by explaining that he was an urologist who had created a product that met a major need of many of his patients. It builds what the Sharks presume is about to be a major medical breakthrough, to finally come up with what's more a striking line: a product that allows you to meet the call of nature on the course golf without interrupting your game (or using a tree.)
Obviously, the UroClub is nothing more than a novelty product that only a few dozen people will ever buy – and this is only to please – the Sharks did not think this product was at the same level as the rest of their portfolio. The UroClub website remains technically up for sale, but there is no indication that Dr. Seskin will be able to leave his job soon.
ten Best: The Original Shrimp Burger
You rarely hear the Sharks regret agreements that have been made, which usually explains why the decision to succeed was the right decision at the time. In the case of Big Shake leader, who came to Shark Aquarium seeking an investment for his unique shrimp hamburgers, Mark Cuban openly admitted that he made a mistake in not signing an agreement with the chef.
While the Sharks loved the shrimp burger and Big Shake chef himself, they all had a problem of low margins and the tenacity of the food industry: they told the chef that they would be delighted to be customers but not investors. After the exhibition, CBS Foods has seen a sharp increase in the interest of customers and investors. The Big Shake chef, his shrimp burgers and his fried chicken restaurant have always been successful.
9 Worse: Wake's N Bacon
One of the best experiences of life is to wake up with the delicious aroma of breakfast cooking. And few smells of breakfast are more familiar or iconic than that of bacon cooking. .
However, the inventor of Wake & # 39; N Bacon took it a little too much to the letter when he imagined an alarm clock that will wake you up while preparing a piece of bacon. The Sharks immediately – and rightly so – pointed out that it involved keeping a slice of raw bacon in a box at the bedside of your bed all night long and that nothing else really mattered after this revelation. They sent Wake 'n Bacon to the pasture.
8 The best: hammer and nail
After meeting success on TV and in Hollywood, writes successful movie scripts brown sugar and Like MikeMichael Elliot decided to try something different after having a bad manicure experience in a traditional women's salon. Elliot saw an opportunity for a manicure and grooming salon that is more geared to men. This is how the first Hammer & Nails show opened in Los Angeles in 2013.
Elliot came to Shark Aquarium seeking to make Hammer & Nails a national channel. Despite being initially receptive to this idea, the Sharks quickly lost control of Hammer & Nails, seeing that Elliot did not yet have a clear business plan. He is clear now: he has since franchised eight other sites and seven more are on the way.
7 Worse: Pavlok
The inventor and entrepreneur Maneesh Sethi had already written a book on aversion therapy titled Hacking the systemand once found a woman on Craigslist and paid her to slap him whenever he was distracted from work as an experiment aimed at breaking bad habits. Finally, his big idea was to simply use on our own what we use on dogs when they behave badly: an anti-shock collar.
Do you think that's a joke? The Sharks did the same when Sethi revealed the Pavlok – named after the famous Pavlovian method of conditioning behavior. How did the Pavlok know you had a bad habit? This is not you are supposed to shock you when you bite your nails, chew with your mouth open, etc. The only one to be shocked was Sethi when he did not enter into a deal.
6 Best: Rocketbook
Nowadays, there are few products that do not have "smart" counterparts – thanks to Rocketbook, invented by Jake Epstein and Lemay, which also includes a good pen and good paper. While Rocketbook notebooks are quite traditional in themselves, it's when you photograph a page of handwritten notes via the Rocketbook app that "magic" occurs.
The Sharks had not found smart enough in Rocketbook to offer the duo a penny of their asking price of $ 400,000 – in particular, repressing the fact that the Rocketbook was apparently reusable, thus limiting returns sales. It does not matter Shark Aquarium, Rocketbook broke Kickstarter's record for most office-funded office supplies in the history of the platform with $ 2.5 million in support investments.
5 Worse: no fly cone
No, your eyes do not deceive you – that is, in fact, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane in the photo above. But it is not there to present his own product, but rather to be brought to enhance the credibility of the idea of his friend, My Fly Cone. Spoiler alert: It did not work, especially not with Kevin who did not even recognize him.
It's not as if the creator of No Fly Cone, Bruce Gaither, was not trying to solve a legitimate problem: the excessive amount of flies in his barn. But once Gaither revealed that his product was a cone containing dog trash to attract flies, the Sharks were disgusted and gave them a tough pbad. Even MacFarlane making an impression of Stewie for the Sharks has not changed in opinion.
4 Best: End of Meals
Some of the best innovations are those that meet a personal need. In the case of MealEnders, Mark Bernstein needed a way to lose weight to fight various health problems and eventually developed a lozenge to help reduce cravings that not only succeeded him, but ended up taking off as a product. $ 1.4 million in sales in less than two years.
Nevertheless, various details about these sales – in addition to the problems they had with the taste of pastilles – hijacked the Sharks and they did not swallow what MealEnders was selling. But the product worked very well without Shark Aquarium treat, especially after the exposure that he had to be on the show.
3 Worse: Attached Notes / Flip-N-Notes
Shark Aquarium has seen its fair share of arguments for products that have attempted to solve a problem that apparently did not exist, at least not to anyone other than the person who proposed it . Mary Ellen Simonsen entered the tank and tried to convince the Sharks that the world needed a way to add sticky notes to her laptops.
The Sharks unanimously agreed that the attached notes were a worthless product that attempted to satisfy a non-existent need. They were dismayed to learn that the product cost nearly ten dollars. The fact that Simonsen seemed annoyed by the Sharks' disinterest and had trouble answering their most basic questions only made things worse for the bad entrepreneur and her superfluous product.
2 The best: the Lip Bar
Of all the companies on this list, the one you know best is probably The Lip Bar, because their products are now in Target stores in the country and have been evangelized by actress Taraji P. Henson. .
How could the Sharks miss the potential of the Lip Bar? Basically, they all agreed that the lipstick sector was too competitive and it would be impossible for a beginner to breach at this stage. The Sharks were very tough with the women who started the business, Kevin and Daymond in particular told them in so many words that the company was a waste of time and that it should just be completely abandoned. Obviously, the Sharks do not always know what they are talking about.
1 Worst: the ionic ear
Anyone who is a fan of Shark Aquarium and looked at it from the beginning did not doubt what was going to be at the top of this list. The pitch of Ionic Ear is considered the worst in the history of Shark Aquarium by each shark who was asked to discuss the bad arguments of the show.
A perfect storm, a bad seller and a bad product, the ionic ear was a Bluetooth device that customers would literally implanted surgically in the ear they never have to worry about losing or losing a Bluetooth headset. None of the Sharks even claimed to consider this activity as a legitimate activity and not only made the inventor Darin Johnson laugh, but continued to make fun of this idea years later during the summer. interviews.
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