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Dragon’s Den

It is a British TV programme that provide connections between entrepreneurs and investors through the form of television programme. There are five wealthy investors in this TV programme, they will use their own money to invest attractive projects from entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs can sell their shares to get money from investors in order to operate their companies.

The August 26, 2018 episode I watched, the first two entrepreneurs come on the stage whose project is a pasta delivery. They first introduced what their company does, and how they make money. They can delivery their five-star homemade pasta to the whole UK in one to two days. Because two of entrepreneurs all come from Italy, their advantage is more authentic than any other handmade pasta in the UK, and you can enjoy fantastic Italian homemade pasta at home. However, these two entrepreneurs needs much more money than their company’s value. 

From my own opinion, first of all, in the financial market, there is no family game, all are interest swap, that is to say, everyone wants to maximize their interests when investing, and the best result is mutual benefit. So when the entrepreneurs proposed that they needed a lot of money but only sold a 2.5% stake to investors, the request was ridiculous. And they were honest enough to tell investors that the money would not be returned for the next two years and that they would even have to invest 1 million pounds.

As a result, none of investors want to invest this pasta project.