A relative of one of Wilson's friends recently appeared on Dragons' Den, and received £100,000 funding for a 30% interest in his company. As soon as he heard about this W started making plans to apply to Dragons' Den himself — he'd even got as far as downloading an application form from the BBC. He told me he'd offer the Dragons a 100% share in Oddsies! for £1M, as long as he could have the money before his next birthday.
Before this got completely out of control, I suggested to W that he download a couple of episodes of Dragons' Den on the iPlayer to see what actually happens on the programme, as I feared that getting money out of investors probably wasn't as easy as it sounds.
Once he'd seen grown businessmen and women insulted and reduced to tears by the Dragons, he said that he was reluctantly withdrawing his application.
I think that is probably for the best.
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