Shark Bait
Alison MillerIssue date: 9/24/09 Section: Blogs
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Now, more often then not, the people are blind to the fact that their idea is never going to be a multi-million dollar business. But, that's part of the fun. You've got to love when a person asks the sharks for $500,000 for only a 20 percent stake in the company when the business hasn't even had any substantial profits.
Anyway, I was reminded how much I love watching the show last weekend when a woman entered the "shark tank" proposing to have the next big thing for the medical clothing industry. She walks into the room wearing a face mask that has "Face Blok" written across it. That would be the first bad sign. Then, she continues to display a series of models wearing decorated face masks and encourages the sharks to try them on. A pink one with a pig snout on it, one designed with a skull and crossbones and one made with a zipper drawn across it.
Honestly, the masks were downright frightening. What was she thinking? I mean, yes, we've seen people wearing masks from the swine flu scare. But, does she really think masks are going to become the next fashion statement? Or that doctors are looking to dress up their scrubs with a decorated face mask? I'm afraid Halloween only comes once a year.
I can just picture it now. A person wakes up from a coma and the first thing they see is a pig snout. Frankly, that would scare the shit out of me, and I just might slip back into a coma.
Perhaps the saddest part of her whole spiel was that she seemed truly shocked when the sharks told her that her idea completely worthless. But, I suppose her blunder can serve as a reminder to any young aspiring entrepreneur. Make sure you bounce your idea off of someone else before you decide to invest your entire life savings into a project and proceed to humiliate yourself on national television.
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