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Dragons Den.

lenny1020 · 2010-03-27 12:08:47

Just watched Dragons Den and seen two bright people give away half of what they had worked and slaved at for years, for peanuts. At least hold onto 51%.Angel investors are really in the driving seat these days . Get the bloody banks to get the finger out and start releasing money to guys who have the courage and talent to…

27-03-2010 12:08pm

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lenny1020

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Just watched Dragons Den and seen two bright people give away half of what they had worked and slaved at for years, for peanuts.
At least hold onto 51%.Angel investors are really in the driving seat these days .
Get the bloody banks to get the finger out and start releasing money to guys who have the courage and talent to get quality products on the market.
I think what the dragons are doing is daylight robbery to be honest .

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#2 27-03-2010 1:36pm

Bandara

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lenny1020 wrote: »

Just watched Dragons Den and seen two bright people give away half of what they had worked and slaved at for years, for peanuts.
At least hold onto 51%.Angel investors are really in the driving seat these days .
Get the bloody banks to get the finger out and start releasing money to guys who have the courage and talent to get quality products on the market.
I think what the dragons are doing is daylight robbery to be honest .

they have slaved for years and got nothing, if they give away half their company for 'peanuts' and get success then its worth it.

Half of something is better than all of nothing.

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#3 27-03-2010 2:34pm

lenny1020

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Yes I understand that but if in the future they need to bring somebody else on board then they have all control lost .50% is ridiculous to me .One of the rules should be that no more than 40% of equity should be given.

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#4 27-03-2010 3:42pm

Axwell

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Look down a few posts..already a thread about this on here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865919

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#5 27-03-2010 5:40pm

hairyterry

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they should be wearing balaclavas

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