Dragons Den

[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.

[milanbenes]

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

Milan.

[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

[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.

[milanbenes]

here it is...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womansho...2_thu_05.shtml


looks like the other Dragons bought it...

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/ar...3&in_page_id=2

"Despite announcing three months ago intentions for a £25m flotation, Red Letters had not made a profit for four years. Would-be chairman Sir Rodney Walker scarpered after he took a closer look at the books.
",

Milan.

[milanbenes]

ha ha the Red Letter Day woman, queen of business has gone bust !!!

I always thought somehow that was a none business

Where was the value ?

Milan.

[planetit]

One guy last week pitched the British "Bedlam Cube", the Brits attempt at the Rubik cube. He got the money off the Dragons.

The Bedlam cube guy actually turned down the money in the end. When that Rachel Red Letter Day woman went bust he started to wonder whether these dragons were as smart as they sound and decided to go it alone. Good to hear it's selling well.

[MarillionFan]

No still not been on. GF said to me again this evening.
"MF"- she said
"You could do that. You're a natural'

But no - still not been on yet. Had a new idea today you'll love it'

Pitch N Toss in a box
Hopscotch in a box
Table Top Rugby in a box



Pure Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stackpole]

MF, was that you?, the IT guy trying to sell something which he couldn't explain very well, then having Doug Richard slap him down saying "I'm not even a programmer but even I could do that".

I saw the start of that first bloke. He didn't say what his thing did, what problems it solved, whether it had any competition, how big he saw his market - feck I could go on. Did he get any money? I went down the pub.

[messiah]

One guy last week pitched the British "Bedlam Cube", the Brits attempt at the Rubik cube. He got the money off the Dragons.

(NB: the Scottish one never gives his money away).

I went to Hamley's toyshop which stocks them on Saturday they had sold out, I bought a couple today for some Christmas presents. 13 quid each.

I wouldn't mind one myself.

Concept is ......a cube made up of many differently shaped blocks ... pull it apart and put it back together again, sounds dull but u cannot cheat and its infuriating when u can't put the peices back in the box in the proper form.

Kids stuff ............ oh so you think !!!

[stackpole]

Perhaps we could sell the concept of a forum where very bored dull people post drivel and cut'n'paste articles?

Would they fund me to be a contributor?

[DimPrawn]

Perhaps we could sell the concept of a forum where very bored dull people post drivel and cut'n'paste articles?

[privateeye]

Can't believe these people who think they have something innovative when they have just stuck some plastic flowers to flip flops and the only investment they want is to cover their salaries while the business flips then flops.

[Joe Black]

MF, was that you?, the IT guy trying to sell something which he couldn't explain very well, then having Doug Richard slap him down saying "I'm not even a programmer but even I could do that".

Actually they seemed a preponderance of people selling IT schemes this evening...reminded me of the good old .com days when people were trying to sell any hare-brained scheme they could think of.