The 3 Terrible Lesson Shark Tank Teaches Entrepreneurs About Fundraising Pitches

<p>Who doesn&rsquo;t love reality television? Umm&hellip; besides all the Hollywood writers currently on strike. But, assuming you&rsquo;re not one of those writers fighting for living wages in an industry being destroyed by, among other things, reality television, it&rsquo;s safe to assume you&rsquo;ve surely gotten more invested than you should have in some sort of fabricated TV drama. From the good old days of&nbsp;<em>Survivor</em>&nbsp;being must-see-TV to live-tweeting the Bachelorette to binge-watching a season of&nbsp;<em>Love is Blind</em>, reality television is a guilty pleasure we all dabble in from time-to-time.</p> <p>Entrepreneurs are no exception. In fact, with 15 seasons of&nbsp;<em>Shark Tan</em>k in the United States and another 200 seasons &mdash; yes&hellip; 200! &mdash; of either&nbsp;<em>Shark Tank&nbsp;</em>or its inspiration,&nbsp;<em>Dragon&rsquo;s Den</em>, aired internationally, clearly entrepreneurs love their trashy reality TV.</p> <p>No judgments here. I confess to even enjoying an occasional episode of&nbsp;<em>The Masked Singer</em>&nbsp;with my 7-year-old (it&rsquo;s how we helped her overcome her fear of mascots). But next time you&rsquo;re watching Shark Tank, remember the one fundamental law of all reality television:</p> <p><em>Nothing you&rsquo;re watching is real!</em></p> <p>Yes, I realize the word &ldquo;reality&rdquo; is in the name. How could reality television not be real? But that&rsquo;s a topic for a different article. In this article, I want to focus on how&nbsp;<em>Shark Tank</em>&nbsp;(and all the other entrepreneur pitch shows like it) teach entrepreneurs some terrible lessons about how to give a good fundraising pitch.</p> <p><a href="https://aarondinin.medium.com/the-3-terrible-lesson-shark-tank-teaches-entrepreneurs-about-giving-good-fundraising-pitches-28c97222013c"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>