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"Two Kansas City brothers went on ABC's reality show \"Shark Tank\" Friday night in hopes of getting a wealthy investor to buy into their business.Kevin and Brian Fleming created Bagbowl, a product that can make a regular plastic bag into a bowl. It essentially creates an exoskeleton for an otherwise flimsy bag.\"Drop your standard quart-size zipper bag into the Bagbowl, invert the sides, slide it down the top, and boom! You've got a handy and sturdy bowl to take on the go,\" the men told the panel of prospective investors, known on the show as \"the sharks.\"Kevin Fleming said the idea is a simple one to explain.\"If it makes sense, then that light bulb goes off, and people go, 'Ah! Why didn't I think of that?' That is where you have that epiphanal moment where you go, 'This is one of those inevitable ideas that had to come into the universe,'\" he said.The sharks, including outspoken Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, questioned the Flemings on the products and how they planned to make money from it. They said the questions were tough, and they were supposed to be.\"They are there to intimidate you, and somewhat browbeat you into getting the results and the answers they want to hear, because it's their money,\" Brian Fleming said. \"We're kind of at their mercy.\"The show was taped in July and the Flemings said they were required to keep the result of the show a secret until Friday night's air date. They said keeping the secret was very hard to do.Friends gathered in Kansas City for a watch party on Friday to see how the Fleming brothers did.One of the sharks, Lori Greiner, took a bite at their sales pitch and left the brothers swimming out of the tank with a $40,000 investment in return for a 33-percent stake in their business.\"Thanks, 'Shark Tank.' It was super-fun being on there,\" said Kevin Fleming.One of the lessons the brothers said they learned was to never call Mark Cuban by the name \"Cubes.\" Cuban told them he wouldn't do a deal with them just because they called him that."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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