Like many businesses that appear on Shark Tank, Winston Mok’s Woosh Smart Air Filter got noticed by producers on Kickstarter. Mok, a former Product Manager at Google, funded his vision for Woosh on the popular crowdfunding platform in March of this year (2022) to the tune of $62,817. They taped their segment sometime in July […]

Sam Chason and Matt Gronberg started The Storage Scholars out of Sam’s freshman dorm room at Wake Forest. They saw a real problem and came up with a real solution. The problem is, at the end of each college academic year, students have to schlepp their belongings back home and then schlepp them back to […]

Melanie Nasarin created Ghia Aperitifs out of a sense of nostalgia. When she was a kid, she’d watch her mother and grandmother make limoncello. Limoncello is made with lemon zest, neutral spirits and sugar or sweet syrup. It was invented in the early 1900’s in the southern part of Italy. Exactly who invented it or […]

Sofi Seck started Expedition Sub Sahara for a variety of reasons. One was her dissatisfaction with her career as a photographer. Another was she wanted to change people’s perception of Africa. Most people in the USA perceive Africa as a continent filled with poverty. Sofi’s recollection of her homeland in Senegal as a “place full […]

Let’s face it, if you’re a fan of Shark Tank like me, you probably thought Shark Tank Live sucked. I do too. While I understand the novelty of it, it came off like an episode of The Price is Right. I half expected Rod Roddy to be the announcer. Now I like The Price is […]

Kirk Hyust and Brian Halasinski invented the Turbo Trusser so they wouldn’t have to tie their chickens up with strings when they cook them. The invention has gained customers world-wide from Michelin rated chefs to backyard barbecue aficionados.  The Turbo Trusser works on ducks and turkeys too. The business is currently a side hustle for […]

Justine Tiu made her first animal that would become The Woobles for a friend. She didn’t know how to crochet, so she looked at dozens of YouTube videos and taught herself. She found crocheting relaxing and she got to be prolific at it. When she and her husband, Adrian, became dissatisfied with their corporate careers, […]

I am writing this post to let readers know the Shark Tank Blog will be on Hurricane hiatus for the near term. On Wednesday, September 28, Hurricane Ian made landfall about 35 miles south of where I live. The eyewall was directly over my community for hours with sustained winds of 80 mph and gusts […]

Braxton Fleming created the Stealth Bros Company because he has to take regular hormone injections for transitioning to a male. Braxton often has to take his injections when he’s away from home. The hormone therapy must be working because Braxton is pretty jacked. Diabetics often need to take injections too and they are another group […]

Charlie Katrycz, Max Brown and Brian Brunsing created The Banana Phone for a couple of reasons. One, they have a warped sense of humor about the 1994 song, Banana Phone, by children’s musical artist Rafi. This song launched thousands of memes in the early 2000’s and their product, a Bluetooth enabled phone handset that connects […]