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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The first company started as a BBQ catering business, and eventually focused in on their most popular product, a dip made of blended up chicken plus various sauces. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Shark Tank Season 4 episode 3 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The entrepreneur claimed that her patent was weak and as a result competitors had copied her product and were collectively doing $30-40M in sales. The company has sold $330k of product over the last two years, all online, mostly to ballroom dancers, where the product has developed a niche following. Last year it did $3.9M