From: Richard Faulkner 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: How to become a Dragon?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:09:44 +0000

In message <1134583122.733122.40270@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, 
alexrpeters@hotmail.com writes
>Loving the new series of Dragon's Den. I can't believe the number of 
>people who are turning up without a suit or able to give any figures on 
>their businesses? There are some absolute no-hopers on the show.


I actually wonder how they are selected to go on the show. Presumably 
there is a queue a mile long, and presumably they are interviewed by the 
shows' producers, (or whoever). I would therefore expect that the 
producers know who is likely to be attractive to the Dragons, and who is 
definitely not. Yet we see a bunch of losers.

This suggests a few possibilities:

1) The Dragons have a finite amount they are willing to invest, and they 
cant afford to use it all up in one or two shows.

2) Part of the attraction of the show is seeing the Dragons tear apart 
the losers

or both.


-- 
Richard Faulkner