{"id":23172,"date":"2014-02-03T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T08:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=23172"},"modified":"2014-02-03T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T08:39:55","slug":"video-cycloramics-bruno-francois-navigate-shark-tank-raise-500k-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/02\/video-cycloramics-bruno-francois-navigate-shark-tank-raise-500k-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycloramic&#8217;s Bruno Fran\u00e7ois navigates the Shark Tank to raise $500K for 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jeZhnEHOMzY<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/cycloramic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cycloramic<\/a> cofounder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brunofrancois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruno Fran\u00e7ois<\/a>&#8216;s performance on Shark Tank last night is a must-see. Not only is Fran\u00e7ois one of the first French founders to appear on the show, but he had all 5 of the &#8220;Sharks&#8221; at his mercy, and ultimately walked away with $500K for 15%, instead of the $90k for 5% he was looking for.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never seen the show, the concept is simple (and addicting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\/2012\/02\/ten-lessons-i-learned-from-shark-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entrepreneurs &amp; investors<\/a> alike) &#8211; entrepreneurs pitch in front of 5 business angels, called &#8220;Sharks,&#8221; who then negotiate live on the show with the founder. Some walk away with money, most don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>For Bruno Fran\u00e7ois, the appearance was not only beneficial from an investment standpoint &#8211; he now counts billionaire investor Mark Cuban among his investors &#8211; but also from a marketing standpoint: 9to5Mac <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/02\/01\/cycloramic-hits-top-of-app-store-after-shark-tank-apperance-500k-investment-100k-downloads-in-an-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Cycloramic jumped to the top of the app store, getting more than 100,000 downloads in an hour (that&#8217;s\u00a0<em>paid<\/em> downloads).<\/p>\n<p>The technology impressed the sharks, though I must admit that, having tried that app about 6 months ago, I wasn&#8217;t too impressed. The app manipulates the motor which vibrates the phone in order to turn the phone about 10\u00b0 at a time; I gave up after trying the app on three different surfaces, although I&#8217;m sure it works for most people just fine. As Cuban pointed out on the show, the fate of the app is likely acquisition by an Instagram <em>aut al.<\/em> who can bring a new feature to their community &#8211; the fact that Cycloramic has patented the technology, and is working on patenting a case that will work on any smartphone, is hopeful, but I&#8217;m still skeptical of the number of use cases where I will put my phone down 10-15 feet from me and have it take a picture for about 30-45 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The video is a good opportunity for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jeZhnEHOMzY If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, Cycloramic cofounder Bruno Fran\u00e7ois&#8216;s performance on Shark Tank last night is a must-see. Not only is Fran\u00e7ois one of the first French founders to appear on the show, but he had all 5 of the &#8220;Sharks&#8221; at his mercy, and ultimately walked away with $500K for 15%, instead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":23176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}