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Tell HN: New TV show, The Entrepreneurs, debuts tonight @ 9pm eastern on CNBC

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I think it's a great idea to view how businesses outside of tech are tackling the problems they face. A show like this can help to make you a better entrepreneur not by only looking at the decisions and strategies they employ but understanding how and why they've built the business the way they did.

I welcome a fresh perspective.

Finally something to fill the void after Dragons' Den ended.

I'm a huge fan of Apprentice UK - it's completely different than the U.S. version, much more like the tough-minded and entrepreneurial Dragons' Den.

If you're referring to the awfully staged CBC show, then yes thank goodness there's a new show in town. It was awful. VC for babies!

I'm sorry, CNBC lost all credibility with me with one word: "Richistan". Who ever came up with that one needs to go back to Efftardia.

It's hard to take them seriously when they think I'm an idiot. (I may be an idiot, but they don't have to rub it in!)

I wish they'd picked some more exciting businesses. I mean a shoe store and a salsa company, doesn't really sound that interesting.

For a mainstream TV show/station, I'm not sure I entirely agree. What would be more exciting to watch, web/tech with thousands of faceless customers they would likely not interact with outside of email/twitter for at least a year... or tangible product & biz development that a mass audience can see, understand, and relate to easily?

I think web/tech is more exciting to live and build for the intellectual types, but much like computer gaming, it's just not meant to be a spectator event. 90% of footage would be pale faces behind a glowing computer screen, where as retail is a lot about vendor selection, sales and deal making.

That said, I think you could replace those products with anything — what's interesting is watching them overcome challenges in their respective industries. Who knows, could learn a thing or two. :) Some startups need to stick their neck out of the bubble once in a while and breath something different... Perhaps there wouldn't be less me-too-point-oh.

Possibly a lot of the lessons learned in their shoe / salsa business will be applicable to a web business as well.

Yeah thats what I meant, they could have went with some electronics company building phones, TVs, etc instead of salsa, and nothing would really need to be changed. I dunno salsa is just boring.

do you mean delicious

I think it depends where you're from, salsa is a big thing down south. But yeah, I get what you're saying... salsa probably would not have been my first choice either, but maybe they know something we do not. I'm also pretty sure they selected based on the people/personality and less on the business.

For the record, I did not downmod you.

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