Dragons Den is horrific for genuinely good ideas.

Its great for poor or marginal ones.

I cannot believe how little some people sell their souls for on DD.

If your idea is that good and you have orders in place then go to a lender.

You dont need the Dragons.

Posted By: usacanary on October 8th 2009 at 22:12:50

Message Thread

Anyone on here build websites? I've spotted an opportunity via work (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:10:35
- Building a website is pretty easy as......... (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 21:54:27
  - I want to set up a betting exchange website (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 8, 22:23:16
    - problem is getting liquidity on the various markets...... (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:26:14
      - ok, but talking about the actual site (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 8, 22:32:39
        
        fairly because of security. programming and customer service. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:38:51
        
        ah bugger, so ?1k wouldn't be enough? (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 8, 22:42:49
        
        My company doesnt work with gambling sites, so its not thaIm looking to explore (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 22:40:36
  - Send them my way for affiliate marketing :) (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:59:18
- i've spotted an opportunity! (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 21:42:23
  - what is it? (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 21:56:55
    - it's a lifesaver (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:08:40
      - Dragons Den time (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:09:17
        
        Dragons Den is horrific for genuinely good ideas. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:12:50
        
        what is this dragon's den thing of which I hear people speak? (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 8, 22:12:06
        
        You have to have an exceptional idea to get on it like the bloke... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:14:46
        
        yes. surprised that no-one IN THE ENTIRE WORLD hadn't come up with that before (n/m) (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:17:42
        
        it's not really relevant in this case (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:13:12
        
        what's your idea? you can tell me because I don't even live in the UK (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 8, 22:17:28
  - several thousand (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 8, 21:56:34
    - not wholly unreasonable (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:06:37
      - feck knows (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 8, 22:55:43
      - Google It You Lazy Fuck (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 8, 22:19:20
        
        that's a bit like masturbation (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:22:59
        
        you'll have to give us your idea then (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 8, 22:33:43
      - Easy answer.............. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:08:36
        
        there isn't a demand yet because people don't know they want it (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:12:05
        
        parallel thinking......... (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:22:51
        
        have you done any market research? (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:16:41
        
        bollocks to market research Dave (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:20:24
      - tell me (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:08:10
        
        I might (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:10:15
        
        i've got a bottle of rum and some peanut flavour corn puffs (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:14:13
- Pixelman was asking for something the other day (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 8, 21:16:16
  - That was for Flash. He never got back to me. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Oct 8, 21:44:34
  - I tried to build one myself before, it was poor and for this to work it really needs (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:21:18
    - How much of an opportunity? (General Chat) - Ben, Oct 8, 21:39:33
      - A couple of hundred quid? (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:51:25
        
        If you think there's good money in it then drop me an email with more info (General Chat) - Ben, Oct 8, 22:06:29
        
        Do you know if they work in a specific sector? (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 22:32:35
        
        Tell us more about the product? (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 21:57:07
        
        It will be build with a view to promoting a specific finance product (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 22:00:46
        
        Sounds incredibly simple........ (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:07:24
        
        I had a brilliantly simple idea on the way home from work this eve....... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:12:37
        
        Ironically............. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:16:06
        
        Unfortunately there is one (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 22:23:50
        
        There are also numerous pizza franchises.......... (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:28:14
        
        because it's really hard to start up a chip shop ithout the support of a franchiser (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:33:08
        
        It's even easier to start up a burger joint without McDonalds (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:40:34
        
        Maybe. Maybe there is more room in the market for Fish&Chip Franchises (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 22:50:02
        
        They have a few huge fried fish franchises in the US. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:56:54
        
        Talking of franchises.............. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:58:28
        
        and now they're popping up over here (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 23:07:30
        
        What like Harry Ramsdens's? (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 23:22:19
        
        Fish and Chip Thursday is a tradition for me. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:17:01

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