There is no news yet about a second season of Shark Tank, but if you’re interested in pitching your business to wealthy investors than Dragon’s Den is your show. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has started a coast-to-coast search for creative ideas and money-making businesses. Dragon’s Den is the same concept as Shark Tank, it even stars two of the Sharks Robert and Kevin O as Dragons.
In the past Americans have appeared on the show, and I do not see anything in the rules that forbid American citizens from addition.
You can addition in person at one of 40 sites across Canada, or online by filling out this application form.
Here is a partial list of additions locations:
March 6, Toronto and Winnipeg
March 8, Victoria and Windsor
March 13, Vancouver
March 16, and 17, Edmonton
March 19, and 20, Calgary
March 20, Montréal
March 22, Québec City and Waterloo
March 23, Fredericton
March 25, Yellowknife
March 26, Charlottetown
March 28, Halifax
March 30, Whitehorse
March 30, St. John’s
April 1, Hamilton
April 8, Thunder Bay
April 10, Toronto
April 17, Ottawa
Make sure you bring the completed audition consent and release form.
For more information click here.
Good luck and I hope to have more news about the second season of Shark Tank, when it comes available.
Before Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec were Sharks they were Dragons. Dragons’ Den is the show that inspired Shark Tank, it airs in different formats around the world. The 4th season of the Canadian version will premier on September 30th on CBC.
Dragon’s Den (the Canadian version of Shark Tank) is in the middle of a cross country audition tour. They have been stopping in both small and large city’s. Here is an article from the Canadian Press:
TORONTO — The economic downturn has drawn out more entrepreneurial spirit than ever, the producers of CBC-TV’s reality business series “Dragon’s Den” said Thursday as they continued their search for Canada’s next great tycoon.
The show is in the midst of a cross-country audition tour that has brought scouts to such hard-hit regions as the Ontario communities of Windsor and Oshawa, which have borne the brunt of car manufacturing layoffs, and a first-ever stop in Campbell River, B.C., an area hit in recent years by pulp mill closures that threw hundreds of people out of work.
Associate producer Lindsey Neely says turnout has been strong and varied.
“We thought maybe with the recession that people are going to be playing it safe, that they’re not going to want to pitch their own businesses but I think it’s really been the opposite,” Neely said Thursday by phone from a stop in St. Catharines, Ont.
“People are looking for new things to do, where it’s someone who’s worked at a company for 25 years and they’ve been laid off and maybe they’re hurt and they’re upset and they’re thinking: `Why am I spending all this time working for somebody else when I could be working for myself and all this hard work I’m putting in should be going back to me?”‘
“I’d say almost a third of our pitchers are people that have lost their jobs at car manufacturing plants,” associate producer Rich Maerov said of investment seekers from the southern Ontario region.
“From last year, I’d say, there’s probably twice as many people that are unemployed right now. On the one hand, I think it’s sad to see that but on the other hand it’s actually instigating some thinking outside-the-box,” he said from a stop in Quebec City.
Robert Herjavec spoke briefly at the end of the article about Shark Tank
This year, Herjavec and O’Leary will be examining twice as many deals, since they’re both also cast as judges on the U.S. version of the show, “Shark Tank.” Produced by reality TV titan Mark Burnett (“Survivor,” “The Apprentice”), it’s set to debut on ABC in January.
Herjavec said the U.S. show will be a harder-edged take on the franchise, which originated in Japan and has spawned versions in England, Australia and eastern Europe. That tougher stance is clear by the name-change, he notes.
“It’s a typical American versus Canadian thing. The Americans, they don’t just want you to be a shark, they want you to be a shark who’s about to kill and eat something,” he said.
“We’re going to be the American sharks, proving that Canadians, once again, are much better at everything,” he joked.
I am excited to find out that the show will be “harder-edged” then Dragon’s Den. I expect the Sharks to be much more like Simon Cowell, blunt, to the point and at times quite critical. Kevin O’Leary will fit right in, take a look at this clip from the seond season of Dragon’s Den and you will see what I mean.
Every wonder what Dragons’ Den looks like around the world?
Well the BBC ran a special episode over Christmas.
In this special episode, we get to see how the show has fared around the world with many international spin offs. Over the years there have been many craxy inventions come in front of the Dragons, some of which are highlighted in this episode. There is also some interviews with Dragons from around the world and also what the UK Dragons think of them.
Mark Burnett has announced his first Shark and he is also a Dragon. Kevin O’Leary has been announced as one of the Sharks on Mark Burnett’s The Shark Tank that will air on ABC. Kevin O’Leary is one of the Dragons from the Canadian version, which airs on CBC.
Kevin O’Leary knows all about obtaining money. The Montreal native made a fortune helping to develop an educational software company in the 1980s and ’90s that eventually sold to Mattel in 1999 for $4.2 billion. After that success he move to the storage business, selling his stake in Storage Now in 2007 for $110 million. He’s now chair of Gencap Funds LP, which manages several global equity funds. Mr. O’Leary’s also co-hosts a show about invention on Business News Network.
O’Leary is all about the money, often ignoring spay stories and concentration on profit. “I don’t worry about people’s feelings when it comes to money. I worry about their money.” He says. I like to just speak the facts. If people find that emotionally distressing, so what? I speak the truth.”
A few posts have appeared on Craigslist looking for solo artists, or band that need financing. This act will pitch to a group of 5 multimillionaire investors. Sounds like The Shark Tank to me.
MAJOR TV NETWORK LOOKING FOR ARTISTS THAT NEED FINANCING!!!!!!!!
Are you a solo artist or are you in a band that is sure to be the next big thing!!!!???
Do you need financing to take you to the next level??
Mark Burnett Productions is looking for the next great musical group to be on a major television network.
You will have the chance to show your act in front of 5 multimillionaire investors.
Please write a brief paragraph as to why your band is the next big thing and how much money you need and why. Hurry….the deadline is 11/17!
I can only think of a few artists that have been on Dragon’s Den and none of them have been musicians. Aerial Angles is a group that pitched to CBC’s Dragons Den this season. They are a group of street performers that do aerials acrobatics and were looking for financing to move to a touring indoor show.
