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Tycoon - Peter Jones Itv1 9PM Tonight
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Yeah, it was disappointing.
I think Peter Jones is probably using it as a vehicle to promote other things. He must have seen the viewing figures for Dragon's Den & the interest it provoked in the featured products & thought there is easy money to be made here, if only the show wasn't on the BBC.
Strange that there was no mention of tycoon.com though.
Btw, my money is on the newsletter thingy getting the push next week, although they are all worthy of getting the chop. Anyone running a book?
I think Peter Jones is probably using it as a vehicle to promote other things. He must have seen the viewing figures for Dragon's Den & the interest it provoked in the featured products & thought there is easy money to be made here, if only the show wasn't on the BBC.
Strange that there was no mention of tycoon.com though.
Btw, my money is on the newsletter thingy getting the push next week, although they are all worthy of getting the chop. Anyone running a book?
hmm yeah seems a bit of a waste... maybe the domain was purchased after filming?
the vodka girl gets the push, and by the looks of it the hair extension girl too (according to the spoilers at the end anyway)
Didn't get to watch it last night... spent all evening in A&E after some guy decided to drive his works van right in front of my car
Hope your OK Fred!
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What kind of person has a product that can be produced, sold and made into a profitable business in less than 10 weeks, yet is short of 10K and is willing to stoop to a show like Tycoon to get it? Presumably, somebody whose idea isn't really that ground-breaking so that they can retread an existing product and get it manufactured quickly.
I think the general level of cluelessness was inevitable given the microscopic amounts involved and the "huge" prize of getting the profit of all the other contestants - what profit is that going to be anyway, at the rate they're going??
Even Apprentice has the same basic problem: beyond a certain skill/clue level, taking the job on offer would actually be a real step down, so that places an automatic ceiling on the level of candidate willing to come forward.
I think the general level of cluelessness was inevitable given the microscopic amounts involved and the "huge" prize of getting the profit of all the other contestants - what profit is that going to be anyway, at the rate they're going??
Even Apprentice has the same basic problem: beyond a certain skill/clue level, taking the job on offer would actually be a real step down, so that places an automatic ceiling on the level of candidate willing to come forward.
reason he has such cr@p products on this show is that everyone with a decent idea has told him to do one.
in the contract for the show, if the idea does work. Peter gets 50% of it, so anyone with any real money making idea avoided the show like the plague.
I genuinely thought it was a comedy, I didn't know it was real for a few hours. The it dawned on me it was serious. When he said he wanted me meet that bird on the peir at the end, I though he was going to say "your business is junk, your an idiot, you've wasted my money" and then push her in the Thames. That would be better than "Your Fired".
Even the apprentice is a joke, Sahid spilt the beans on it last week. Says Alan suger is merely a modern day Robert Maxwell, trying to prop up him empire with dodgy publicity. Until he stops selling that stupid phone, I can't take him seriously either.
in the contract for the show, if the idea does work. Peter gets 50% of it, so anyone with any real money making idea avoided the show like the plague.
I genuinely thought it was a comedy, I didn't know it was real for a few hours. The it dawned on me it was serious. When he said he wanted me meet that bird on the peir at the end, I though he was going to say "your business is junk, your an idiot, you've wasted my money" and then push her in the Thames. That would be better than "Your Fired".
Even the apprentice is a joke, Sahid spilt the beans on it last week. Says Alan suger is merely a modern day Robert Maxwell, trying to prop up him empire with dodgy publicity. Until he stops selling that stupid phone, I can't take him seriously either.
There is a guy at my local market who was selling a few of those phones so they are obviously worthless.
I think Amstrad should market that teleportation machine they have. They get fired from the boardroom in canary wharf and come out the door of their offices in Brentwood essex!
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Not much in common then? I used to supply aftermarket floppy drives and software for his PCW back in the 80's. I wouldn't be his apprentice for double what he pays.
or come on, it's the funniest thing I have seen this week.
bird crying because she didn't get to meet paul mckenna, and then forgets her presentation sample.
Or that other idiot girl telling everyone how much she pays for her prouduct, and how much she's selling it at. I can imagine her over here, well I paid £6 for it and I want £10,000.
It's a complete muppet show.
bird crying because she didn't get to meet paul mckenna, and then forgets her presentation sample.
Or that other idiot girl telling everyone how much she pays for her prouduct, and how much she's selling it at. I can imagine her over here, well I paid £6 for it and I want £10,000.
It's a complete muppet show.
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i agree its not the best show, i tend to watch it while doing something else as its still interesting to a point.
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apd, the programme you mentioned was called the Emillionnaire show. I remember the panellists included the creator of "beanz" (the "currency" of the internet), and the founder of QXL. Both seemed still dazed by their success. The idea was that the emillionnaire panellists would hand over their personal cash (total prize of one million pounds) to the best idea.
QXL still exists mind you, although I am really not sure if anyone still uses it? Beanz died an early death.
One of the best ideas on the show, I recall, was "schools 4 schools", though I can hardly remember what it did. Something about schools sharing facilities, sharing excess hardware, fixtures and fittings, etc. Evidently this was in the days when domains containing the numbers 4 or 2 had the W@W factor.
True, but bear in mind, Alan Sugar isn't looking for an entrepreneur really. What he wants is an employee. No real entrepreneur would settle for a £100k job. Let alone some of the candidates supposedly "giving up" personal businesses which earn them close to that amount. They must be mental.
I missed the Tycoon show, (both this week and last) but will be downloading with bittorrent in a mo. Thanks everyone for the reminder!
On a side note, some of you may remember a certain idea presented in the Dragons' Den. It was for a national pub poker league. The guy on the programme mentioned the domain name he would be using for his business. I immediately visited it and noticed it had a hit counter. Over the course of the hour following the programme, it registered something like 50,000 unique visits. Quite incredible.
So, my best idea, which I would be 100% happy to pitch on Dragons's Den, would be to come up with a nonsense business plan (maybe just put something together a few seconds before pitching to the Dragons, off the top of my head), but making sure I used some memorable domain name related to finance, and to mention the domain at every available opportunity. By the time the Dragons came around to the grilling-me part of the programme, I would already have made enough in PPC to turn down any offers made :mrgreen:
QXL still exists mind you, although I am really not sure if anyone still uses it? Beanz died an early death.
One of the best ideas on the show, I recall, was "schools 4 schools", though I can hardly remember what it did. Something about schools sharing facilities, sharing excess hardware, fixtures and fittings, etc. Evidently this was in the days when domains containing the numbers 4 or 2 had the W@W factor.
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True, but bear in mind, Alan Sugar isn't looking for an entrepreneur really. What he wants is an employee. No real entrepreneur would settle for a £100k job. Let alone some of the candidates supposedly "giving up" personal businesses which earn them close to that amount. They must be mental.
I missed the Tycoon show, (both this week and last) but will be downloading with bittorrent in a mo. Thanks everyone for the reminder!
On a side note, some of you may remember a certain idea presented in the Dragons' Den. It was for a national pub poker league. The guy on the programme mentioned the domain name he would be using for his business. I immediately visited it and noticed it had a hit counter. Over the course of the hour following the programme, it registered something like 50,000 unique visits. Quite incredible.
So, my best idea, which I would be 100% happy to pitch on Dragons's Den, would be to come up with a nonsense business plan (maybe just put something together a few seconds before pitching to the Dragons, off the top of my head), but making sure I used some memorable domain name related to finance, and to mention the domain at every available opportunity. By the time the Dragons came around to the grilling-me part of the programme, I would already have made enough in PPC to turn down any offers made :mrgreen:
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That bloke was from North Wales , turned out that the cash never materialised.
I believe DB had a related domain 'thenuts' which did decent traffic as well.
mostly with the dragon's den the money never turns up, half the time it is because the dragons were too slow to pay up. Although in 90% of the cases the people who were promised the money made it on their own and have thriving businesses. Plus the fact that people call the business owner once the show airs and offer them a better deal.
Thing is you don't need a working protoype to get on, so just tell the researchers for the dragons den that you have a "hover board" and uses zero energy. They don't have a clue and bingo you'll be on the show. If anyone asks how it works just tell the it's a secret. Set-up a website with some good ads and bingo.
Has anyone ever seen, "my big fat obnoxious boss" was on channel 4 last year. Absolutely hilarious, spoof of the apprentice but the contestants thought it was real.
Thing is you don't need a working protoype to get on, so just tell the researchers for the dragons den that you have a "hover board" and uses zero energy. They don't have a clue and bingo you'll be on the show. If anyone asks how it works just tell the it's a secret. Set-up a website with some good ads and bingo.
Has anyone ever seen, "my big fat obnoxious boss" was on channel 4 last year. Absolutely hilarious, spoof of the apprentice but the contestants thought it was real.
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admin, you can watch the episode on the shows website - tycoon.com
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