Our own personal preference aside, the issue that we see with the product is just that there is so much competition. Kookn’ Kap – These two ladies felt more like “Saturday Night Live” characters than anything else, and this product was just hideous in our eyes. (Being firemen probably helped them here.) Deal with Robert: 33% for $200,000. It would need a ton of testing and work to ensure that it is perfect for sale, and they are very, very lucky to have gotten a deal from Robert Herjavec … especially for the amount of money that they did. There’s too much of a safety hazard with this right now, since kids could very well unbuckle themselves and fall to the ground. It is basically a new form of child carrier that has some great ideas to it: It is relatively lightweight, and can make life much more convenient for parents of young kinds who struggle to lug their kids around.īut, the issues are such that we wouldn’t have thought a shark would bite. The Freeloader – On an idea alone, this is really clever. Given that we know already that this business has had some press over the years, the lack of sales just shows that the experience just isn’t there. She didn’t bite, and we knew that nobody else would. It’s just not something that sells in stores, since it probably takes too much explanation as to what it is. She could get this on QVC, and we see thousands of moms picking it up. This is the perfect business for Lori Grenier. Kids have trouble sleeping, and maybe this can be helpful. – The first thing that we will say is that the evaluation here is not as ridiculous as we’ve seen on the show: This mother from Illinois (who we previewed yesterday) is only valuing this at $100,000, and while we don’t quite know whether there is any real proof that aromatherapy like this works, this is at least an interesting idea. Overall, this has been an eye-opening and fun project.Fairytale Wishes, Inc. After all, dollars from customers are easily 10 times as valuable as money from investors! If I were to suggest other entrepreneurs focus on growing their sales, it would be largely because it is a true testament to finding the product-market fit before raising money for growth. But for the sake of this project, having sales is what I wanted to put to the test.Īlthough I am still convinced that having sales is super important in raising money, I have changed my opinion about the role it plays in fundraising on Shark Tank. Of course it would be impossible to map them out. Lesson 3: More sales doesn’t mean you will get to significantly more money!ĭozens, if not hundreds of factors, go into the valuation of the company: uniqueness of the product, how ready the product is for the market, if the entrepreneurs have exited a company before, market conditions, etc. Out of these 29 companies, here is how the breakdown looked: When I tried to compare the sales they had to the likelihood of their raising money, I was very surprised. Out of the 50 companies I studied, 29 have raised money. The metric that I ended up settling for was sales as percent of valuation, or the inverse of the ‘valuation multiplier.’ To make sense of the data I compiled, I needed to find a common denominator that could be used regardless of the size of the company. So, instead of ditching the project altogether, I saw this is a learning opportunity for myself. No matter what graphs I tried to build, the numbers were not on my side. I tried to get insights from my data to prove my thinking was right over the course of several evenings. I thought I knew the answer and I just needed data to back me up. To do that, I have compiled data in an Excel spreadsheet - pre-money valuation, how much a company has asked for, which ones have raised money, at what valuation, and how much have they given up - with the sole intention of drawing parallels between lack of sales to failure to raise money or unfavourable valuations. It has always been painful to see entrepreneurs getting shut down by the ‘Sharks.’ So, I started this little project of watching 50 random episodes of Shark Tank with a goal in mind: to show entrepreneurs how important having traction (sales) is in raising a seed round of funding, which is typically the financing companies seek from the Shark Tank. So some investors’ patterns may not be the same as in the ‘real world.’ But since most people don’t spend their days on CrunchBase, I figured it could be a relatable, fun piece of research that people can build upon.
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Before we get started, I wanted to acknowledge that I understand that Shark Tank is a TV show.
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