Shark Tank Towbe Draft

            Polly, Owen, Mr.D, and myself will be pitching a shark tank product to investors. Our goal is to gain $100,000 of investor money in our product to help grow and expand our Towbe. There will be two sharks and two people pitching the product (Owen and I). We will go through the conventions that make up a shark tank pitch and basically be providing the class with its own shark tank pitch in real life. We will have examples from out side sources (picutres, video, interviews, ect…) in our prezi and show examples of our competitor and why we are better.

            The goal of this shark tank presentation is to get across the conventions we know how to break down from different speeches, come together as a group and get different idea together, hopefully we found a radical product that everyone will like, and

Towbe Incorporations

-Built off cleaning the ocean and beaches

            -10% of all proceeds go to cleaning the beaches and oceans around local       California waters.

Some basic questions that the sharks will ask Owen and I and our responses that will obviously be more in depth and detailed on stage.

1. What are your sales?

Our sales to date our 1000 units from Santa Barbara beach house and major surf shop in ventura from January 2016. Our sales to date our just over $25,000, roughly on track to close out of our first year in 2016 with $100k plus in sales.

Cost to make- $5

Sell online - $30

Sell to retailers- $15

2. What do you bring to the table?

We currently are both top of our Business and economics courses at Stanford with a brand new idea that will be bigger than the snuggie that sold over 10million units. The potential of our product will be even greater than the snuggie, we are both young hungey and dedicated on this project. We have spent countless hours getting our patents and specialzed towbes to be made public. If there 2 men you want working for you day and night making you money, look no further.

-The investors on "Shark Tank" say over and over again that an investment isn't just in an idea or a business, but in the entrepreneur themselves.

3. Why do you need our money?

We just patented the backpack towbe, we need capital to get our first order of 5,000 units of backpack towbes out to the ventura warehouse and online website. We will buy inventory needed for our sales and help our advertisement and marketing firms grow.

4. Why the big valuation?

Our evaluation is so big because snuggie has sold over 500 million to date. And I can give you 5 reasons why were better and going to be the next snuggie.

·      Our towbe can do just what snuggie does but better

·      Ours turns into a backpack to hold items

·      Used for changing in and out of your wetsuit for the beach

·      Can be used out of the shower. Dry off, get ready, ect..

·      Can be customized to any towel configurations you want

5. Is your product unique?

Our product is different and unique that it can be completely customizable like Nike ID and they will be able to fold up into a backpack the holds all beach wear,utility.toys, ect. There is nothing like our product out there and we need your help to take it to the next level and beat out snuggie.

6. How much debt do you have?

We have no current debt

7. What are your costs?

We buy our product for $5.00 flat and sell it for upwards of 29.99, much more affordable than other brands and turns into a backpack, has sleeves, and can be customized to your liking.

Start/Stop/Continue #3

Start/Stop/Continue 

Speech #3

Radical

PrisonShops

Start-

·      Start with an overview of what I’m going to be talking about and explaining my topic with what’s going to follow. I like how LaQuay does this in his speeches and always gives us an overview of what’s ahead.

·      Getting people/audience involved more so that they don’t daydream or stop paying attention. I should do more hands on talking to the class and getting them more involved with questions, show of hands, ect..

·      Changing my voice tone more to match what I’m trying to say. Make it sound more enthusiastic when the time is right and bring it to a more serious tone when I need to.

·      Moving around more and use up the whole front of the class, I find myself limited and always standing near the computer when I should be utilizing the whole floor.

·      Being calm and confident when being up on stage, most of the jitters go away after 30 seconds but it’s the anticipation of going up to do the speech that gets me nervous.

·      Having a better conclusion and going over all my main points at the end to wrap everything up and get people to understand that prisonshops are good!

·      Adding more comedy in my speech, I have done so in the past and I would like to add more throughout the speech and get the audience more involved and laughing.

·      I could have added more history on the sweatshops. Typically when they originated and why and how they were caught many times in America but have been shut down.

·      I also wanted to explain more about the companies being able to specially buy out individual prisons and have them make whichever product they want. They would also be in charge of how much each prisoner is paid depending on work experience and production output rates.

Stop-

·      Stop rushing through my speech and talking to fast. I need to slow down my speech and give a moment of silence or breath to gather my thoughts rather then rush to the next thing.

·      Saying um and uh when I get lost or confused on what I just said. Its easy to throw those in as fillers when instead I could use a moment of silence.

·      Stay away from monotone speeches; I need to mix up my voice when necessary to give my speech that extra push it needs. At the end of my speech I should of gone with a straight southern accent talking bout merica’ and beer when presenting those slides of American goods. That would show me adapting to my speech style and genre more.

·      Reading off the slide show or prezi I have. I need to work on just finding key words when I glance at the screen to help me remember what to talk about rather then just reading directly off the sreen.

Continue-

·      To be happy and enthusiastic about what I am presenting. Always stay smiling and keeping good eye contact. Portraying a positive attitude keeps you positive and reflects off on to others watching and listening.

·      Speak to the audience and not face the screen. Knowing my presentation by heart helps a lot and makes it so I don’t have to keep checking the computer or screen. Although I did get caught up reading off the screen 2 or 3 times on the longer typed slides.

·      Using hand gestures, even though they can use improvement to help keep the audience focused elaborate on things.

·      Being myself and using topics that continue to interest me. I really like my last one because it was kind of reasonable. It had a legitimate feel that could actually work.

·      My hand gestures improved this speech from the last two but still could use work. I could have used my fingers to list off the problems or reasons why I choose jails in America.

Classmates Move’s

·      Nick LaQuay- What I liked about Nick’s speech was that he had a really interesting topic and presentation. This kept the audience involved and always looking at the screen. His overview of the whole presentation in the beginning is what I find most effective and helpful in explaining his topic.

·      Mr.D- I liked how Mr. D picked a topic that was really out there and something very radical. It was something not everyone thinks about ever… but he made a very interesting point to recycle our waste and use humanure instead of plumping.

·      Connor- I really liked how Connor threw the change and the money on the table when talking about going back to the barter system. The use of props was a good attention grabber and really got everyone listening to what he had to say.

Prezi Link-

https://prezi.com/1sysabtgbf2-/sweatshops/

Speech video link-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpOLEfhn4sc