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Re: Shark Tank

John James — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:13:02 GMT

In the comments of the blog post on this show (linked above also), it is mentioned how the investors sometimes place a great emphasis on the proprietary nature of the business that is being pitched, and that at least one (I've noticed two) of the "sharks" are pretty big IP whores.

I actually hadn't seen any occurences of anyone speaking out against it in the episodes I've seen, but Kinsella has a great post documenting some of Mark Cuban's anti-patent tendencies I thought was worth linking:

Mark Cuban Bashes Patents on Shark Tank

Re: Shark Tank

DanielMuff — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:48:45 GMT

Consumariat:

So basically a cheap imitation of Dragon's Den?

Cheap imitation?

Re: Shark Tank

Wheylous — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:22:22 GMT

Fun fact: The speaker at the international science fair to which I went got his grant from that show.

Re: Shark Tank

John James — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:18:24 GMT

Way ahead of you...

Re: Shark Tank

Consumariat — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:43:07 GMT

So basically a cheap imitation of Dragon's Den?

Re: Shark Tank

triknighted — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:29:08 GMT

I like Survivor, it's pretty neat.

Shark Tank

Gero — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:27:33 GMT

I recently discovered the TV show Shark Tank, about five wealthy investors who decide to fund or not fund various entrepreneurs. I think people here will like it.