Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac are two cousins from Maine who moved to California but still loved the taste of Maine Lobster.  They realized that many people loved Lobster on the west coast but did not have access to it readily.   They decided to start up a lobster food truck business by creating some of their favorite lobster dishes and selling them on the streets of LA.  They met with very good success and their demand was outstripping their ability to ship and produce the lobster.  They needed to expand and buy new trucks, but they did not have the capital.  They ended up on Shark tank with a $55,000 investment from Barbara Corcoran for 15% of their Maine Lobster Truck company.  They have now expanded to 4 trucks and have 10 more franchises in progress.

Keeley and Erika, two friends from Oregon,  were in college and both had one thing in common: they loved Peanut Butter.  When they had run out of peanut butter all together, they started making their own peanut butter with fresh peanuts and a new food processor.  However, they didn’t stop at mashed nuts, they proceeded to add and experiment with every conceivable  ingredient in their pantry.  When their friends told them what they had was too good to keep to themselves, they started selling the peanut butter.  The product went into retail in 2011 and flew off the shelves.  The girls appeared on Shark Tank and recieved a $50,000 investment from Barbara Corcoran for 35% of their company.  This has proven to be a good business move because they have skyrocketed in sales and are branching out to other products.

Sawyer Sparks from Bloomfield Indiana was a freshman in college and would babysit his Professors children.  He found out they had a condition called celiac disease, which means they had a wheat allergy and was not able to play with Play-dough because they would have an allergic reaction.  As a Freshman in College, Sawyer developed a Soy biased play-dough he called Sawyer Dough.  At 22 years of age, Sawyer appeared on the reality TV show Shark Tank in order to obtain an investment.  He ended up partnering Kevin O’Leary, Robert Herjavec, and Daymond John giving up 51% of his company for $300,000.  This has proven to be a good choice because Sparks was able to move out of his home kitchen and into a factory, and has sold over 50,000 units in 2013 in 50 states and across the globe.  The combination of wheat and gluten free in the toy product space has made this young entrepreneur a millionaire.

Idea Paint is a product that turns any wall or surface into dry erase boards by literally painting the slippery white surface onto the surface.   The company Idea Paint was founded in 2008 to create an environment that is more conducive to innovation and limitless outflow of human creativity.

Idea paint has been praised by the Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Fast Company, and CNBC, as a tool that has accelerated innovation and has allowed humans to bring their ideas to life on any surface.  Since its start, it has been used in over 100,000 offices, schools, and homes around the world.

The idea for Idea Paint was brought about from frustration.  The owners John Goscha, Jeff Avallon, and Morgan Newman pondered “How can you think big when you have to write small?”  They soon came upon an “Eureka!” moment, and they proceeded  separate the limits of a board from the dry erase concept.  These young entrepreneurs say they exist for one reason: to fundamentally improve the way people work.  Now their paint is used to help the idea flow of Google, the space program at NASA, and Apple Computers.

Idea Paint can be bought for $225 for 50 square feet of paint.  This may be more than a white board, but it is way cooler and still not that expensive, especially to innovative businesses who are trying to stand out.  Its safe to say that the owners of idea paint have done what they charge others to do in their company tag line: “Leave Your Mark”.

http://www.ideapaint.com/products