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Barbara Corcoran is turning the tables on “Shark Tank.” Instead of listening to entrepreneurs’ pitches, the real estate mogul is making her case to ABC executives in an effort to get a second season order for the Mark Burnett reality series. During its 14-episode run, viewership hovered at a mediocre 5 million viewers per episode. In anticipation of the network’s final decision on Monday, Corcoran — one of the series’ five investor “sharks” — whipped up a 340-page color brochure filled with statistics and testimonials about the businesses that she personally invested in after they appeared on the show. She says she’s sent eight copies of the books to network execs, hoping to “Let them walk in the shoes of the entrepreneurs they were helping . . . being a good guy, not just doing a good show on TV,” she says. “I was trying to appeal to their Americanism — let the good guy win, everybody deserves a break, any of those slogans that perhaps they’re too removed from by just analyzing numbers and deciding what goes and what stays.” Read more AKPC_IDS += "2602,";

(By Bob Andelman, reposted with permission) “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran has a sense of humor. She must: an incredibly successful real estate mogul, she’s the author of three books, including my favorite title, If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails. Yikes! On her ABC show, which airs its second season finale this Friday, February 5 at 9 p.m., Barbara is on a panel of experts assessing potential business investments. There are some great ideas; and there are some horrible ideas. Barbara is the only woman on the panel and presents some of the best “Are [...]

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Defining Entrepreneurship An Interview with Barbara Corcoran, Real Estate Mogul, Entrepreneur, and Speaker, Barbara Corcoran Inc. Editors’ Note Barbara Corcoran became one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country by parlaying a $1,000 loan into a $5-billion-dollar real estate business in New York City called The Corcoran Group. She sold the business in 2001 for $70 million. She is the author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, a national best-seller. Corcoran is the real estate contributor for NBC’s Today Show and a columnist for MORE magazine and Redbook. In addition, she is the [...]

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