after shark

    By Jason Cochran

    | 1:01AM 1/16/2010
    Last night on Shark Tank, Nate Berkopec, a 19-year-old New York University student originally from Minnesota, dared to take his six-month-old environmentally conscious clothing line, The Factionist, into the Tank. "It's really easy to do your market research if you are the market," he proclaimed...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 1:00PM 1/08/2010
    Tonight, Jan. 8, the much-loved venture capital competition show Shark Tank returns to the ABC lineup. We've been chronicling the tense Mark Burnett production, in which everyday people try to convince a panel of five real-world moguls to invest money in their ideas, through our in-depth AfterShark...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 12:02AM 10/07/2009
    Having a good business idea isn't enough to make money. You also need the means to execute it. Last night, inventor Lisa Lloyd showed up on ABC's Shark Tank a nervous wreck: sleepless, mortgaged to the brink of disaster, and unable to meet the demands of her business without some quick capital....

    By Jason Cochran

    | 12:01AM 10/07/2009
    Last night on ABC's Shark Tank, we met Danon Beres from Huntington Beach, California, who makes the Washed Up Hollywood fashion accessories line. His buckles wowed the businessmen, but ironically, his budget could have used a little belt-tightening. Kevin O'Leary and Daymond John wasted no time in...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 4:00PM 10/05/2009
    Can't get enough of ABC's new series Shark Tank? Then dive deeper. WalletPop's Editor-at-Large, Jason Cochran, dared to risk life and limb to hang with the Sharks. Instead of seeking an audience with the self-made multimillionaires to beg them for money, as budding businessmen do every Tuesday...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 9:00PM 9/15/2009
    Tonight, ABC will re-broadcast an episode of Shark Tank featuring the colorful and infectiously enthusiastic Saccoman brothers, two Brazil-born guys who brought their online journaling system, MyTherapyJournal.com, before the Sharks. The guys are as perky and as can-do as the Wonder Twins from...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 5:00PM 9/14/2009
    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...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 1:00AM 9/14/2009
    Coming later today in our ongoing AfterShark interview series, we'll talk to Jonathan Miller, the whiz who dazzled the Sharks with his cunning negotiating skills. Somehow, this wily 29-year-old managed to talk Kevin Harrington out of wresting his company from him to giving an offer that not only...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 5:45PM 8/31/2009
    It was one of the most electrifying confrontations of the Shark Tank season. Paul Watts of Sacramento brought his Graffiti Removal Services, a franchised fleet of mobile removal units, in front of the Sharks to see who would bite. Two Sharks backed out, claiming the idea could be too easily copied....