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Article: `Shark Tank' star led Learning Co. of Cambridge
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Highlights from Scott Kirsner's Innovation Economy blog. For the
full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation.
A shark in the Back Bay. Did you recognize one of those
skeptical, skin-flinty investors from ABC's reality show "Shark
Tank" as a denizen of the Back Bay?
Me neither.
I'd seen a few episodes of "Shark Tank's" inaugural season over
the summer. On the show, entrepreneurs pitch a panel of five
investors who ask probing questions - and sometimes simply mock the
contestants, in time-worn reality show style. But occasionally, the
investors decide they want to put their money into one of the
businesses, and then there's a fast-paced negotiation over deal
terms. The show's first season ...