Monica Ferguson: “Here Are 5 Important Business Lessons I Learned While Being On Shark Tank”

Where there is great drama, there is a great pitch. Reality TV does not operate in reality. Our appearance on Shark Tank is best described as a performance. Most great pitches are; there is energy, there is charisma, and there is drama. Being on Shark Tank was a heightened state of reality; every personality on the show was magnified, including our own. It is that drama that sucks the viewer in and makes the show so great.

As a part of my series about the ‘5 Important Business Lessons I Learned While Being On The Shark Tank’ I had the pleasure of interviewing Monica Ferguson. Monica is the CoFounder of Solemates, a female founded consumer products good brand. She is a graduate of Columbia Business School and Georgetown University. Before launching Solemates she worked in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.

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