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Sometimes they act like spoilt children, especially when they get all sulky and declare themselves out because the entrepreneur wants to negotiate or took too many seconds to decide. That's par for the course with reality tv although I don't think the manufactured drama and cliffhangers are necessary, the process is what's interesting not the final answer.

I don't think their valuations are crazy, they're aggressive but they usually have plausible justifications for them. What is crazy is the gulf between what they do and the kind of startups here - just imagine a couple tweeners with half an iphone app successfully raising a million bucks on Shark Tank.



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