New Dragons Den tonight

[Gromit]

It was some financial scullduggery involving hiding money in bank accounts during the recession. I think they deliberately cut a lot of detail out of the show to not give people ideas.

They were financial sector vulture scum which is why the Dragons went off on one.

 

[Griff]

It was some financial scullduggery involving hiding money in bank accounts during the recession. I think they deliberately cut a lot of detail out of the show to not give people ideas.

They were financial sector vulture scum which is why the Dragons went off on one.

^^^

This.

 

[foo]

It was some financial scullduggery involving hiding money in bank accounts during the recession. I think they deliberately cut a lot of detail out of the show to not give people ideas.

They were financial sector vulture scum which is why the Dragons went off on one.

who would be hiding money? the punters, or them?

sorry i don't get it.

 

[Gromit]

who would be hiding money? their punters or them?

sorry i don't get it.

Niether did I. Be grateful, we'd probably be scum too if we did.

 

[DotCommunist]

missed this. Arse. Iplayer hates me as well. bugger.

 

[DotCommunist]

I saw them jizzing over a water purifier for underdeveloped countries once, they all did their good deed for the century by giving them all the money and only taking 1% of the profit. I can just see them now going home and having a right old wank over themselves 'oh I'm rich but I'm GOOD TOO Mummy, yes I am! I helped the poor people mummy!'

I believe they took 0%, but yes the air of self-satisfaction in that room must have been almost choking in its intensity.

 

[Gromit]

I believe they took 0%, but yes the air of self-satisfaction in that room must have been almost choking in its intensity.

2% each to be exact.

So it was 50k for 10% equity.

 

[foo]

i just remembered the sideways watch

 

[Griff]

i just remembered the sideways watch

Oh yeah.

"I've got clocks all over my car, what do I want this for?"

 

[DotCommunist]

They are on Jon Ross tonight


Peter Jones is improbably tall but also slightly fading in that once-alpha male way

 

[Dillinger4]

They are on Jon Ross tonight


Peter Jones is improbably tall but also slightly fading in that once-alpha male way

I like that advert where he is riding the trolley.

He definitely kept all of his dignity there.

 

[DexterTCN]

Took their dibs on Wossy, fair does.

(Still not on BBC1 though...and 2nd fiddle to Denzel)

 

[DexterTCN]

"Don't call me a pilot, it's insulting!"

 

[Gromit]

Not many good opportunities tonight.

Don't think that they should have invested in any of them.

Not sure if the cleaners thought their offer out properly.
Have given up over a third of their business to increase their business by a third (depot). How are they better off?

 

[Part 2]

I just caught the end.

The cleaners were likeable blokes, just not businessmen. Exactly the sort who seem to get ripped off in the den.

 

[Gromit]

Basically they've paid 35% of their business for business lessons.

It would be cheaper for them to have enrolled at college.

 

[foo]

i missed it cos unix wanted to watch BB

i'll watch again later, don't tell me what happened.

 

[Awesome Wells]

My god this program just gets worse. I loathe the subtext and I find each of them utterly obnoxious.

 

[foo]

why do you watch it then?

wierdo.

 

[DarthSydodyas]

Not sure if the cleaners thought their offer out properly.
Have given up over a third of their business to increase their business by a third (depot). How are they better off?

It's the same trade-off for anyone that walks into that place and makes a deal with a Dragon. You have the capital and experience of somebody who has a vested interested in pushing you and your bizniz forward enough to make it a success story. I think these cleaners can end up the biggest in the UK, precisely why the last two made the sorts of offers they did (although they should have gone 50/50, imo).

 

[weltweit]

There seems a pattern to each show.

First a couple of wierdos who get slanged by the dragons.

Then a good one who may get investment.

Then some wierdos again

And finally a business that is already doing ok which wins investment.

 

[Gromit]

It's the same trade-off for anyone that walks into that place and makes a deal with a Dragon. You have the capital and experience of somebody who has a vested interested in pushing you and your bizniz forward enough to make it a success story.

Well the business in question already seemed to have good growth.

The question is can a Dragon improve that growth and increase proifit.

Its clear cut when its a start up business coming cap in hand but less so when its an established business thats doing okay.

However we did have the age old issue with the cleaning company of Turnover being vanity and profit sanity. I think they have been keeping their tenders low to stimulate growth. How will there margins be affected when a dragon get on board who will be looking to push profits. They'll need to find a sustainable balance between growth and profit.

 

[Gromit]

I think they missed out on shoeshine boy on Dragon's den tonight.

It was based on Duncan taking the word of a shoe shine guy he uses saying he not making a living.

Well guess what Duncan, in that particular business I'd be pleading poverty too. It's how you get bigger tips and sympathy return business. Bloody fool. I bet the guy he's talking about is in fact raking it in otherwise he'd have quit.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

good post

'I know him, he's a mate"

nah Duncan, he's a guy who kneels down on his knees and polishes your multi-millionaire, prole-tramping shoes for a pittance

(no actual offence intended- I actually rather like Duncan Bannatyne)

 

[Awesome Wells]

why do you watch it then?

wierdo.

because my mates want to watch it. i just sit there and masturbate over deborah meaden.

weirdo ffs.

 

[Santino]

What was that book bloke's business?

 

[DotCommunist]

What was that book bloke's business?

dunno the slimy oddball was weird tho

 

[Santino]

dunno the slimy oddball was weird tho

Cheers for that, you jizznet.

 

[Orang Utan]

What was that book bloke's business?

inveigling his way into elderly people's lives, finding out loads of personal information and getting some kind of creepy weird kick out of it.

 

[Santino]

inveigling his way into elderly people's lives, finding out loads of personal information and getting some kind of creepy weird kick out of it.