Some people celebrate big career wins by splurging on a Rolex watch. Not Mark Cuban. At age 32, he sold his first startup — a software company called MicroSolutions — for $6 million. That same day, he took off his watch and threw it away, he said at a SXSW panel earlier this month. It … Read more
If you ask Saphira and Maurizio Rasti, the way to a “Shark Tank” star’s heart is through their stomach. The Costa Mesa, California-based husband-and-wife duo brought investors treats from their business, Nowhere Bakery, on Friday’s episode of the ABC television show. The pair launched their bakery with $400 in March 2020, two weeks before the … Read more
After leaving engineering jobs at Amazon three years ago, Brett Skaloud and Jeff Feiereisen built a showerhead startup with social media virality, thousands of customers and $5 million in projected annual revenue. They still couldn’t land a deal on Friday’s episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” due to making what billionaire investor Mark Cuban referred to … Read more
Making an eye-popping return of 2,900% in just two years, Shark Tank India judge Aman Gupta’s Rs 20 lakh investment in ice popsicle brand Skippi has turned into Rs 6 crore. In the first edition of the reality TV show in December 2021, Gupta and four other sharks had together invested Rs 1 crore for … Read more
