£600k, Dragons Den..

[sven256]

You can't click on the pictures to view the recipes, therefore the site fails!

Works here.

 

[Fanatic]

You can click the pictures, only the cursor doesn't change.

 

[V4NT0M]

You can click the pictures, only the cursor doesn't change.

Epic fail.

 

[MikeHunt79]

I would have happily made her a site like that for £500k, she could have saved £100k!

 

[Tonyator]

Thats why.... what a silly design...

 

[aa6972]

all she need was something like socialgo

 

[CliffyBiro]

I would have happily made her a site like that for £500k, she could have saved £100k!

From what I can see, she paid for a wordpress/buddypress theme.

 

[ATI_Karl]

Doesn't even have a favicon.

But you can click on the images to view recipes.

Just noiticed that aswell.

School boy error!

 

[shifty_uk]

From what I can see, she paid for a wordpress/buddypress theme.

I don't think so, the sites markup looks original. From a design point of view though, they most likely ripped it off.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

I can't fathome how it is costing here 22k a month either...absolutely mental.

PayPerClick advertising. I can easily see them munching through £22k a month.

 

[MikeHunt79]

^ pun intended?

From what I can see, she paid for a wordpress/buddypress theme.

Yep, I thought it looked familiar... Perhaps the company she used charges by the pixel instead of by the hour...

 

[CliffyBiro]

I don't think so, the sites markup looks original. From a design point of view though, they most likely ripped it off.

Well her blog is WP and pretty much identical in style to the generic ones provided when installing BuddyPress.

 

[MaX_PoWah]

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/...dish-co-uk-dragons-den-what-do-you-think.html

looks like she has posted on here about why it cost her 600k

 

[V4NT0M]

Let me do a bit of maths:

5 Years to get a tenfold return on 100k @ 10% means 1,000,000, so her profit in "5 years" would have to be 10m no?

That's a lot of money to get from advertising and a few flimsy bits of merchandise.

I still cannot imagine where 22k a month is going for this, is she paying herself that money or something?

 

[MaX_PoWah]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the interest.

Made good telly, ehh. But when about two hours of Q and A is boiled down to about ten minutes, all the details don't quite get through. But that's the drama of the Dragons' Den.

The costs cited include all the running costs for about two years including marketing, staff and office, set up and running costs in general etc. So it's not just spending on the website, obviously.

We were expecting a surge of traffic, but nowhere near the huge amount we got. So if the site was wobbly, that's why. We're all up and running now.

Hope that helps. We're looking forward to working with Deborah and thrilled she invested in the company.

Mydish

 

[Barks]

£600k isn't that much. You need to consider things other than the site maintanence, such as marketing/advertising/development.

 

[Paul11]

Let me do a bit of maths:

5 Years to get a tenfold return on 100k @ 10% means 1,000,000, so her profit in "5 years" would have to be 10m no?

That's a lot of money to get from advertising and a few flimsy bits of merchandise.

I still cannot imagine where 22k a month is going for this, is she paying herself that money or something?

exactly what i worked out.



600k invested crazy crazy crazy...

 

[Jock Dodds]

I'm not fully aware of all the facts surrounding this venture but I've worked on a similar start-up and 600K is not as astronomical as people seem to think. You'd be amazed at how money is eaten up in the first year or so.

 

[4p]

Each Dragons Den interview is cut down from like 1-3 hours into 2-5minutes.

 

[atpbx]

To be honest, other than the vile tasting Reggae Reggae sauce I cant think of a single thing that the Dragons have backed that I have seen for sale, or heard of again.