Next up are Adam Rauch and Derek Shaw of Laid Brand, seeking $30,000 for 30 percent equity.
Key Highlights: Laid Brand on Shark Tank
- Unique Product Offering: Laid Brand offers hair products enriched with pheromones, aiming to boost confidence and hair health.
- Product Varieties: The products come in three varieties—Fill Me Up, Rockin’, and Straight 2 Kinky.
- Sales Concerns: The sharks are concerned about the lack of sales and market penetration, as well as the competitive nature of the industry.
- Name Provocation: The provocative brand name and pheromone community concept failed to impress the sharks.
- No Deal: Laid Brand leaves the tank without a deal, with sharks questioning its uniqueness and market strategy.
Laid Brand: A Quick Company Overview
Laid Brand offers hair products enriched with pheromones. The products can help enhance color, in addition to protecting and hydrating hair. The pheromones help girls “exude confidence” wherever she goes.
The hair care products come in three varieties—Fill Me Up, Rockin’ and Straight 2 Kinky—and cost $24.99 or $74.97 regularly for the bundle.
According to their website, their products “not only make your hair healthy, shiny, and beautiful, but are also formulated to make you feel great.”
Robert Herjavec worries about the name but they point out that other beauty products have very “provocative” names, too. In the last three months, they haven’t had any sales because they have only done a test pilot so far. The sharks are also not convinced on their “pheromone community.”
Herjavec doesn’t see it as unique or proprietary and goes out, followed by Kevin O’Leary for having too many concerns over shelf space. Lori Greiner worries about competition in the hair care industry and also points out that she didn’t smell anything. She goes out, as does Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran.
Social Media Reacts to Laid Brand’s Appearance on “Shark Tank”
Like really you call it "Laid brand" for a women's product?! Just whyyyyy #SharkTank #LaidBrand
— (@BillGatesDream_) May 13, 2017
"Laid Brand"??? Terrible name. The word "laid" in French means "ugly." #SharkTank #LaidBrand
— Sullivan Trent (@SullyTrent) May 13, 2017
This laid brand guy been sniffing too many pheromones. #SharkTank
— Kristi (@TTKristi) May 13, 2017
"Laid Brand"? Really? Ugh #SharkTank
— Margaret C. Sullivan (@mcsullivan) May 13, 2017
If Sex Panther & Perceive had a millennial child, its name would be "Laid Brand".#sharktank pic.twitter.com/sgHQPqrlSg
— Rebel Eclectic (@RebelEclectic) May 13, 2017
Each week on “Shark Tank,” budding entrepreneurs have the opportunity to pitch their emerging business to six multi-millionaire and billionaire investors, known as sharks: Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks; Daymond John, fashion mogul and founder of FUBU; Kevin O’Leary, self-proclaimed Mr. Wonderful and founder of O’Leary Financial Group; Barbara Corcoran, real estate maven; Lori Greiner, queen of QVC; and Robert Herjavec, technology guru and founder/CEO of the Herjavec Group. Venture capitalist Chris Sacca is also slated to appear as a guest shark this season.
“Shark Tank,” which is based on “Dragons’ Den,” is produced by Mark Burnett and first debuted in 2009. To date, the sharks have invested more than $87 million in various companies after engaging in numerous bidding wars and shark fights. A new episode airs each Friday at 9 p.m. on ABC.
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