Top Highlights

• The first step is to hire a professional designer or engineer. Even if you have a sketch of what you’d like the product to look like, you’ll still need someone to create a CAD (computer-aided design) file, which is required to make a prototype.
• gives people hope and inspires future entrepreneurs to pursue their dream of building a business at a time when America needs them the most.
• As banks remain wary of giving out loans, Shark Tank is stepping up and serving this new crop of entrepreneurs by offering access to six self-made, ultra-successful, millionaire and billionaire business moguls who are looking to invest their own money in the right people with the right ideas.
• U.S. entrepreneurship climbed in 2012 to the highest level in a decade. This just years after a crippling recession.
• happen, the doors swing open and there you are, standing face-to-face with a panel of world-class investors on national television.