Dragons Den

[Joe Black]

The Red Letter Day woman was always a sort of weakest link though. Perhaps they felt they had to have a woman on the show?

The other guys, especially since they got rid of the scot, don't seem too bad and have quite a bit more 'real' experience. A few seem to have £200-300m businesses behind them, and in Peter Jones case I believe he's valued at most of that since he owns 90% of his company.

[hyperD]

Peter Jones owns the Phones International Group, worth over £200 million.

On Elnaugh's Red Letter Day business failure he remains quiet but:

“We’ve tightened up the financial reporting, we’ve looked at the overall operations of the business and the way the business was run from a call centre and customer service perspective – from time to answer the phone to all the basic things.

We’ve also looked at how we can work closely with the retailers with regard to specifically targeting the corporate sales team to deliver against specific accounts, looking at real account management, profiling accounts, understanding why a customer needs our service.

That’s not to say that some of these things weren’t done before, it’s just what we believe we have to do to make the company work more effectively.”

His on-screen ‘cost of equity’ argument with fellow Dragon Duncan Bannatyne:

“It was outrageous what he tried to do. Even off camera – what you didn’t get to see – he tried to be clever. It’s more the principle of what he did to the bloke. I didn’t like it. I think I called him a sly little sh1t or something.”

http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/YXIANyhoF2HDRg.html

And Mr Ultra Shave's view of the Dragons:

http://tachyontv.typepad.com/tachyon...agons_den.html

[milanbenes]

I watched that episode where he called the other bloke a sly sh1t

Milan.

[DimPrawn]

I had a great idea today actually.

All round my town there are now thousands of traffic calming measures, mostly road humps.

These cost a fortune to put down.

With NL love of legislation, simply make round tyres illegal.

If everyone was forced to drive on hexagonal tyres, speeds would be reduced, and the cost of implementation moved to the motorist.

Genius.