The Shark Tank: You can audition for a new network reality show

I am impressed with the creative products and services for pets that people come up with. It’s a multi-billion $$ business that continues to grow in spite of the [blah blah tired of hearing about it] economy.

Here is an opportunity to get the financial backing and publicity to get a business off to a great start.

Mark Burnett, executive producer of Survivor and The Apprentice, is starting a new reality show on ABC called The Shark Tank. The staff is looking for entrepreneurs, inventors, businesspersons, dreamers, promoters, creators, innovators, etc. to apply to be on the show. Here’s the information:

Each week, ambitious entrepreneurs from across the country will present their breakthrough business concepts, products, properties and services to the panel of ruthless investors. Their goal is to convince these merciless moguls to invest their own dollars in the concept. Convincing real-life millionaires to part with their own money is no easy task, because when the idea is poor, the Sharks will tear into the ill-prepared presenters and pass on the idea with a simple, "I'm out!" -- sending them running for the exit.

But these Sharks aren't just out for blood, they too have a goal: to own a piece of the next big idea. Entrepreneurs will be asked to give up a percentage of their companies' equity to the Sharks in order to get the investment they need. But when the Sharks hear a really top-notch idea, and more than one of them wants to sink their teeth into it, a war between them will erupt. Then the once-desperate entrepreneur can rejoice when the Sharks reveal their true interest in the product and bid up the price of the investment.

Besides serious creators, I’m guessing that for entertainment value they are also looking for doofuses with oddball ideas who will be subject to public humiliation and sent packing.

I’m a reality show junky. I’ll watch it.

If you or someone you know has a brilliant (or offbeat) business concept, fill out the application here. 

Comments

[cube]

Good, they're not real sharks. Whew!

My big idea was an adjustable rubber-edged divider that you could put on a plate and it would keep foods separate from each other. If you have any experience with children, they HATE having one food touch another. I thought it was good, but my family ridiculed it. I don't think I'm recovered enough to have another brainstorm.

[Khyra]

Khan I pitch a show idea at woo:

How about one khalled Khyra's Khorner?

Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra

[jackie]

actually i like that idea..they had something like that before with people and their inventions..i liked it..

[Col]

There is a Canadian reality show based on a similar premise. It is amazing some of the ideas that people spend their entire lives trying to promote.

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