AfterShark: Jonathan Miller -- bests the Sharks at their own game
Filed under: Entrepreneurship
Today's AfterShark interview is a goodie: It's Jonathan Miller, the 29-year-old guy who did what few others have done on ABC's Shark Tank: He rebuffed lopsided offers and not only lived to tell the tale, but he also got the Sharks to show their weakness and come crawling back with more equitable deals. In the end, he walked away with all the money he wanted, plus royalties, and unlike so many entrepreneurs who went before him, he kept control of his company, Element Bars.
As it turns out, that wasn't the whole story. In his Skype chat with Jason Cochran, Miller tells us what we didn't see on TV, including the training that taught him just how to bait the Sharks as effortlessly as he did and the pivotal effect of a last-ditch on-set phone call that didn't make the broadcast.
Miller also reveals something else about what business owners have to agree to if they want to appear on Shark Tank.
For this and many other video interviews with the most provocative people from Shark Tank, head to our AfterShark home page.
As it turns out, that wasn't the whole story. In his Skype chat with Jason Cochran, Miller tells us what we didn't see on TV, including the training that taught him just how to bait the Sharks as effortlessly as he did and the pivotal effect of a last-ditch on-set phone call that didn't make the broadcast.
Miller also reveals something else about what business owners have to agree to if they want to appear on Shark Tank.
For this and many other video interviews with the most provocative people from Shark Tank, head to our AfterShark home page.
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9-18-2009 @ 12:38PM
Mahafakir said...
Does this article have to do with the show alled Shark Tank on the TV Network Shark Tank? Shark Tank is a scam. The show people say that the moderators of the show will invest their money. Of course they will inves their money. People forget that Shark Tank is a TV show funded with the money provided by the Advertisers. The moderators get paid. Every once in a while they will invest some money. They have to. Thy have to keep the show alive. Who will watch the show if no moderator invests in the proposals received on the show. If the show were wise the show will give a prize to the contestant who provides a proposal that is voted on by the TV watchers rather than approved by the moderters. The prize money should be like $1,000,000 or $500,000 and should be based on proposals received over a period of four weeks or eight weeks or some such reasonable period. That way Shark Tank would cease to be a scam.
Regarding the proposal of 29 year old some body some body will get royalty if the product is sold. If no product is sokd no royalties will paid. I doubt anything will reach the production stage or even be sold to any retailer even if the production starts. Somebody is just blowing hot air.
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