WE’VE been watching Dragons’ Den tonight, with some of the more weird and wonderful business ideas and products that I’ve seen in a while.
When the lunatic Bulgarian chap turned up with his home automation system that runs your bath for you, Mark was instantly intrigued - he loves anything he can control from his iPhone.
Incidentally my dearest husband has been known to purchase such items as the Steam Mop and the ‘Nicer Dicer’ (a complete flop for the record) from the shopping channel at 2am, just because he couldn’t sleep! So you can understand my raised eyebrow when his little face lit up.
It was a shame for the Bulgarian that he was daft enough to ask for £1million investment, and when asked how he would use it, responded with “I would like to have a new office, maybe in The Shard”. If the Dragons weren’t already about to waste him for the product they didn’t like, he’d just given them the perfect ammunition to annihilate any hope he had for the future of his business.
He was laughed out the room, but still walked out smiling and truly believing in his business. I for one think that’s pretty admirable - however crazy he is!
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were once starting out in a new age of technology, and would possibly have been laughed out of a room by a group of Dragons. But these men changed the way we all live and work.
I literally don’t know how I’d cope with daily cleaning chores had James Dyson not invented the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner. And having just seen a 20-year-old lad introduce a kit to mend water-damaged smart phones - that he’s invented in his mum’s utility room, bless - I’m heartened that the age of inventors is still very much alive.
As a woman I must thank Sara Blakely, Moe Nadler, Lady Jennifer Bell Schofield and Yves Saint Laurent, without whose inventions I would rarely leave the house (Google them!)
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