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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:This is my favorite: http://www.topgear.com/au/videos/1901-clarkson-in-the-dragons-den I haven't seen that for a while . Funny stuff when he tells the scot "Sorry, I can't understand a word you are saying"
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GrandpaPants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mTmuy4fHo Augh, that loving cookie dough. I used to work at a gourmet/health/organic grocery store, and after that episode people kept coming up to me and asking me for "those cookies that were on Shark Tank." They could never describe what they were asking for, though they would gush about it to me in the checkout.
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This thread has got me hooked. I watch Dragon's Den (UK version) but it drives me CRAZY because they narrate EVERYTHING that happens, just after it happens. At least Shark Tank doesn't do that. Check out this guy's amazing high tech solution to people spying on you through your laptop's camera. It is amazing. The link takes you straight to it, otherwise skip to 22:33 on the video. http://youtu.be/Jdfth020img?t=22m33s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdfth020img
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This poo poo is addicting. This dude here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=896dnlo5XxQ has all 5 sharks fighting for his app deal. (starts at 8:40)
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:This is my favorite: http://www.topgear.com/au/videos/1901-clarkson-in-the-dragons-den Wow, crossover Top Gear / Dragon's Den. Amazing.  I love how they're all just staring at him like "what the gently caress dude." Of course they know who he is so its kinda staged, but its still hilarious. Its fun to see a celebrity like Clarkson put into the position of a no-name pitcher being shot down by the Dragons. Now I want a whole "Celebrity Shark Tank" show. Keanu Reeves pitches his new blender idea. Hahaha the announcer. "Jeremy has asked if he can get children to work in factories." "Jeremy, its poo poo." Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 22:55 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Rondette posted:This thread has got me hooked. I watch Dragon's Den (UK version) but it drives me CRAZY because they narrate EVERYTHING that happens, just after it happens. At least Shark Tank doesn't do that. The Amazon reviews for this are awesome: Amazon posted:There isn't much to this product, so the price seems a little high. http://www.amazon.com/Webcam-Cover--Black-Eyebloc-Laptop/product-reviews/B00DUN57OS/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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peter gabriel posted:The Amazon reviews for this are awesome: I... can't believe some of these people are for real. If only for the sake of my own sanity. "My husband has not stopped giving me a hard time about this purchase, a piece of black tape would have worked better." NO poo poo
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http://youtu.be/oaJGeYP4pvM?t=8m40s Guy with douchebag hair and "aluminum foil man" try pitching a game show, with a $5 million evaluation because "if it gets 5% of what American Idol gets..."
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I... can't believe some of these people are for real. If only for the sake of my own sanity. quote:I bought 6 for my team and will be returning them all. This person is in a position of authority of some sort 
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Guy proposes a good app idea called Scholly that aggregates scholarships for students who wouldn't have otherwise seen it. Really, really good idea and Lori and Daymond jump on it immediately. Then the doors close and... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhRzdqmuMGg It really brought me back to that Romanian (?) book deal in Dragon's Den, but goddamn, that got vicious really quickly.
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This thread is going to be the death of me. I have become so addicted to this show. Here's a pitch that starts out well, and the guy has a decent product, but it just goes off the rails completely... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOSMfQTd4hI Bonus! Kevin O'Leary in tighty-whiteys!
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A fat lady tries to pitch a cheap, 80's looking weight loss DVD and has a little breakdown at the end. The look on their faces when the curtain drops.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j854tpSK1VI&t=24m50s Edit: Forgot timestamp, oops. Celery Face has a new favorite as of 10:15 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Oh goodness  First pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGdhg272nw Woman who went to Stanford and got an MBA wants 70,000£ to make a Bollywood board game which is really just a direct knockoff of Trivial Pursuit. Her pitch goes on waaaaay too long, and doesn't cover a single actual business detail or even explain how the game is played; she just rambles about Bollywood on and on. One of the dragons points out that she bored all of them, and she disagrees and says she thinks that they were engaged. (They were literally yawning)
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Zaphod42 posted:First pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGdhg272nw I watch a lot of board game Kickstarters, and I have no idea what the hell she wants 70k for. Also goddamn Peter Jones was brutal. This has nothing to do with a product (although I thought the episode was good overall with good and bad products), but Kevin O Leary describing his weird secret society is hilarious: youtu.be/-ZrvRRiCsOE?t=27m5s The last bit also has Mark Cuban straight up sniping the hell out of Kevin.
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Schizophrenic Orb posted:http://youtu.be/oaJGeYP4pvM?t=8m40s Douchebag hair doesn't give this justice.  What planet is he from?GrandpaPants posted:I watch a lot of board game Kickstarters, and I have no idea what the hell she wants 70k for. Also goddamn Peter Jones was brutal. Secret society of burbon drinkers?!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confr%C3%A9rie_des_Chevaliers_du_Tastevin Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Crazy old french guy proposes an idea to make hockey rinks oval shaped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En4aBctIco To be fair, if I lived in Prince George, I'd probably go insane too.  Edit: Oops, didn't realize this was already posted on page 5. Here's an update where they had some young hockey players try out his idea. Surprisingly, they didn't get it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqyk-31TGY&t=23m50s Celery Face has a new favorite as of 09:59 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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This one's got it all. I won't spoil the magic; just watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukftYhb-OyY&t=8m49s "There's never been a story about dragons on another planet." Nah, just 24 Pern novels alone. Nope, never been done.
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This episode is pretty positive, a lot of neat products with dragon bidding wars and aggressive counteroffers. You also have a vaginal moisturiser leading to many double entendres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmR_65CXKz4&t=15m55s My favourite: "Jim put his money where his mouth is."
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Life Caps, an emergency food replacement pill that has no clinical data or FDA approval. Mark Cuban goes ballistic on the guy.
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GrandpaPants posted:Life Caps, an emergency food replacement pill that has no clinical data or FDA approval. Mark Cuban goes ballistic on the guy. hahaha "Barbara, can I explain one thing?" "I'm not Barbara."
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I saw the follow-up to this one she does get a deal with Hallmark Canada and just had to see the original pitch, as my father owns a lovebird. It did not disappoint. This woman is a kook in the best way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7y9iJoM3s
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JacquelineDempsey posted:This one's got it all. I won't spoil the magic; just watch. Yeah as soon as she said "its never been done before" I just went "look at this lady who never read McCaffrey's Pern". That'd be like saying you want to make a big budget sci-fi movie and then when somebody mentions Star Wars you respond with "What Wars?" GrandpaPants posted:Life Caps, an emergency food replacement pill that has no clinical data or FDA approval. Mark Cuban goes ballistic on the guy.  I don't know! I'm a musician!
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JacquelineDempsey posted:This one's got it all. I won't spoil the magic; just watch. Look at Kevin pushing her buttons. He knew right from the beginning he wasn't going to put a cent in for her, he's just trolling her face-to-face. Beautiful.
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Kinda interesting to watch the very first episode of Dragon's Den Canada. The dragons seem so much more reserved (though Kevin does flip out over a woman pitching a "nap center"), and lack the chemistry I've seen in later seasons. I'd never seen one with Jennifer instead of Arlene, and boy is she a snooze fest. Also pretty funny how embarrassed they are by the product that starts just after 27 minutes, when in a later season they're totally chill talkin' vaginas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtRs6pNLyNg&list=PLCDFNL1F_j-B2zHrwf6vizxnSEanB4SOi EDIT: Holy smokes, this follow-up. Long story short, 4 guys in their early 20's get a $200,000 deal on their job-seekers app, landing all 5 dragons. I was curious how they made out eventually, and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDR_WEl4wMg JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 22:59 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Holy smokes, this follow-up. Long story short, 4 guys in their early 20's get a $200,000 deal on their job-seekers app, landing all 5 dragons. I was curious how they made out eventually, and found this:  Now that's really rough. Everyone expects to get hosed by their tuition, but not by a grandstanding prof.
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"Hmm, I'm going to ask the dragons for a million dollars. What should I wear?" Skip to 7:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dBOlVnnvkQ (side note: how come sometimes SA posts the URL, and sometimes embeds? And if it embeds with the "video type" code, how do you alter that to make it go to the proper time?)
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JacquelineDempsey posted:"Hmm, I'm going to ask the dragons for a million dollars. What should I wear?" What I do is copy the url piecemeal, splitting up the "youtube" portion in particular so that it won't recognize it as a youtube link when pasted. I then copy it into the normal [ url=" " ]video[ /url ] format.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:
That douche is now banned from Ryerson University, his own workplace, because he harassed students, then confronted them when he found out they went to the dean. He's a real winner all around, and it's infuriating how the JobLoft guys defend him.
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Cmdr Tomalak posted:That douche is now banned from Ryerson University, his own workplace, because he harassed students, then confronted them when he found out they went to the dean. He's a real winner all around, and it's infuriating how the JobLoft guys defend him. He sued the school over that ban, I remember. I don't know the outcome of that case, but I think he left Ryerson and hopped across the border to Utica.
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https://youtu.be/q2BysUitC5c?t=9m13s Two nerds pitch their exercise product, and the dragons rip them to shreds. They seemed particularly mean in this pitch, especially Jim. Be sure to hang around for the post-pitch interview for a bonus fedora!
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Celery Face posted:Yeah, I felt awful for the kids of that idiot who sold his house to fund a strawberry stem remover. Strawberry stem removers..? What, why would anyone buy that? You can eat that poo poo anyway, I used to just like eat around it or pinch it off, but now you just eat that thing whole and use your teeth to mash it.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:"Hmm, I'm going to ask the dragons for a million dollars. What should I wear?" Lol, that guy was a scammer looking to get a million dollars and run. His tech is a load of crap, his deals were made up, and he just had a battery and an inverter running those lightbulbs. I can guarantee you that the Dragon never heard from him again, and is lucky that he put the conditional clause on it. Edit: I found the patent and it's total nonsense http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20090528&CC=WO&NR=2009065219A1&KC=A1 He's got a bridge rectifier on the input battery for some reason, even though it's DC to begin with, then it goes through a coil that's surrounded by magnets which wouldn't do anything without the coil moving, and then he's got a second bridge rectifier which is hooked up the wrong way, and that is surrounded by 4 diodes that are not only redundant but facing the wrong way so no current would be able to flow anyway (whether it was positive or negative) BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 02:12 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Khanstant posted:Strawberry stem removers..? What, why would anyone buy that? You can eat that poo poo anyway, I used to just like eat around it or pinch it off, but now you just eat that thing whole and use your teeth to mash it. It's not for eating strawberries, it's for using strawberries as an ingredient, like if you're using strawberries in a cake or something. I know this because my friend owns one of these things for that express purpose. Here's one of those feelgood ones, where the person got all 5 sharks after a bit of a random dickery from various sharks. I really can't tell how much they like each other. GrandpaPants has a new favorite as of 04:44 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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GrandpaPants posted:It's not for eating strawberries, it's for using strawberries as an ingredient, like if you're using strawberries in a cake or something. I know this because my friend owns one of these things for that express purpose. Man that Barbara lady seem like a real weapons grade bitch, she was pretty rude the entire time.. I enjoyed how she tried to bring less to the table than Daymond and Kevin and then tried to use the girl power argument to win them over and Daymond called her out on in.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Kinda interesting to watch the very first episode of Dragon's Den Canada. The dragons seem so much more reserved (though Kevin does flip out over a woman pitching a "nap center"), and lack the chemistry I've seen in later seasons. I'd never seen one with Jennifer instead of Arlene, and boy is she a snooze fest. That douche reminds me of the episode of Hell's Kitchen where some guy starts screaming at JP over a screwed up order because "I HAVE A DEGREE AND YOU DO NOT"
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Okay, I do not get this product at all. Why on earth would I spend $1 a pop on a tiny plastic bag, when I can save the ones I get from supermarket/7-11/Walgreens for free? Am I sitting on a gold mine of the dozens of plastic bags that are stuffed into another bag under my kitchen sink right now? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UbDRo5eSlk&t=23m22s Why do the dragons even entertain this idea? Do Canadians not get plastic bags which can be reused? I keep one in my car for garbage like empty cigarette boxes and gum wrappers and such. Then, when I go to 7-11 for more cigarettes, I throw it out in their outside bin, and get another bag with my next purchase! I am a GENIUS, apparently. Also, be sure to stick around for the post-pitch interview. That... sure was an interesting way to break some news.
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Some places (like the SF Bay Area) have banned plastic bags from groceries and charge $0.10-0.25 for paper bags. If she got it down to a quarter each or so, it'd be way more understandable than a whole dollar. I kinda wonder if Robert and Kevin make more money on Shark Tank vs. Dragon's Den (Canada), since there's just soooo much more poo poo on Dragon's Den, although I can't really think of a deal Kevin has made in a while (because nobody loving wants to pay royalties, Kevin!), and Robert tends to have deals stolen from under him.
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GrandpaPants posted:Some places (like the SF Bay Area) have banned plastic bags from groceries and charge $0.10-0.25 for paper bags. If she got it down to a quarter each or so, it'd be way more understandable than a whole dollar. Yeah, I wasn't thinking about places where plastic bags are banned, that's a good point. Is that common in Canada? And I agree, it seems like Kevin almost never lands a deal, unless he goes in with someone else. I honestly can't remember a time when he seals a deal by himself, and I've binged a ton of DD. I think they keep him around for comedy value --- compare with Jennifer from season 1, who not only makes no offers but brings nothing to the show, she barely even talks. Thank goodness she got replaced with Arlene. fake edit: of course, I say that while watching Season 8 Ep 6, and Kevin just solo invested in an online clothing consignment business.
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So on those DD episodes with Rachel Elnaugh, what's with that intro? "She lost all her money and her company had to be rescued by another Dragon!" I mean it's true but it must suck to have that plastered all over the first minute of every show you're on. Did she have any say or was she just glad to have a job again?
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