The timing of bad weather for LitHandlers creator Destiny Padgett couldn’t be worse. She’s on the season 12 finale of Shark Tank and it’s raining in her hometown of Buna, Texas. It’s raining so hard, her warehouse flooded! It looks like no inventory was damaged, but they still had a lot of water to clean […]
DinoDon – Life Sized Dinosaurs
When Shark Tank producers asked if Don Lessem would like DinoDon, his life sized dinosaur business, to appear on Shark Tank, he had one condition. That condition was his wife, Valerie Jones, had to appear with him. Jones is a non profit fundraising professional who’s used to asking for big bucks. She also speak the […]
The Pluto Pillow – Custom Pillows
Susana Saeliu created the Pluto Pillow because she didn’t have a pillow she liked. She, along with business partner Kevin Li, want to disrupt the pillow industry in the same way companies like Purple have disrupted the mattress industry. The Pluto Pillow is a pillow that uses an algorithm to customize a pillow design to […]
Fling Golf – Golf/Lacrosse Mashup
Fling Golf inventor Alex Van Allen and his childhood friends were an imaginative bunch. They’d combine sports to make a new game. That’s how Fling Golf came to be – they combined lacrosse with golf and he’s convinced he’s going to change golf forever. What it is is a golf “club” that lets you fling […]
The Original Stretch Lace – Elastic Shoelaces
Jamie Montz invented The Original Stretch Lace to make tying her kids’ shoes easier, When you have three little ones, it can be a pain in the neck to keep getting on your knees and tying them. They are also popular with the elderly and people with special needs because they turn any shoe or […]
Float ‘n’ Grill – Floating BBQ Grill
If you ever wanted to grill while you’re in the water, Float ‘n’ Grill is for you. The product, featured in Shark Tank episode 1221, is the brainchild of Mikey Bashawaty and Jeremy Quillico, long time friends who enjoy hanging out on the sandbars of nearby Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie in the summertime. […]
Sneaker Erasers aka SneakerASERS
Sneaker Erasers creators Chris Pavlica and Kevin Consolo used to brainstorm about million dollar ideas while roommates at Ohio University. It was almost ten years later that idea came to be. Pavlica was a film maker in LA and Consolo was doing sales for a brewery in North Carolina. One fateful day, Pavlica was set […]
Grind Basketball – Shooting Machine
Thomas Fields, creator of Grind Basketball, got his company name from what he does: Grind. In middle school, he got up at 5 am to go practice with the high school team. In ninth grade, he made varsity and had a promising future in the sport. Unfortunately, a series of injuries ended his dream of […]
Protein Bar Mix by Creation Nation
Karen Nation eats healthy, that’s why she created her no bake Creation Nation Protein Bar Mix. She’s a Sports nutritionist who had food allergies as a child. She was always experimenting in the kitchen and in 2014, she decided to make her protein bar and energy bite mixes for the world to enjoy. She felt […]
The Beer MKR – Home Brewing Kit
Aaron Walls and Brett Vegas hope to raise a toast to a new partnership for The Beer Mkr, their simple home beer brewing kit. If you’ve ever looked into brewing beer, it can be a very complicated undertaking. These guys aim to make it easy. Imagine if you will a service that sends you all […]