The Apprentice Series 7

Grr, missed it and so watched it later on Sky+ - wanted to clock Melody one! How deceitful - telling Leon that they didn't like the idea of the car/backpack in the train station when actually they'd said it was a good idea! What a cow...!
 
Mammalian said:
you all seemed to have missed the bit when sugar said if he hadn't gone into electronics he'd go into beauty products as so much money in it. i know which horse i'm backing ;)
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So he hires Melody to make sure she has loads of money to spend on makeup, which she clearly loves, then he invests heavily in makeup companies. I get you.
 
Mammalian said:
from what you've seen for 1 hour a week on a tv program that isn't designed to show the truth but instead entertainment? sure.
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Oh come on, Susie is way out of her depth. Intelligent, yes, but surely anyone that asks the kind of questions she did this week isn't going to be a contender?
 
i understood the question straight away. was clear to me she didn't mean do france love their kids. she explained what she meant in the boardroom just in case you didn't understand and it was a valid question.

yes she appears to be out of he depth right now on tv which is as mentioned supposed to show things in an entertaining way rather then the truth. as mentioned on you're fired she is getting the most out of it and if she picks it up quick enough (it's not rocket science afte all) she could easily win. I'm backing her based on what sugar said in that he'd want to go into an area she currently has experience in.
 
Greebo said:
£250,000 investment to start their own company, with Lord Sugar as their business partner.So their idea.
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But does he know the ideas prior to the end of the series?

Robbie G said:
I wonder

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- Whether any apprentice has ever been sued for revealing information during or after the competition.
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Apparently he was telling them to stop posting things on twitter. By them I mean already fired contestants.
 
Morba said:
So that is gonna be swaying his decision each time he fires someone :(
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We've seen that already. People have been fired purely on their cv and not what they did/didn't do on the show.

I suspect that's why he's still kept the inventor bloke in and Susie. Perhaps Zoe has a brilliant idea as well.

It is obviously going to sway hios decision as if it comes down to a choice of 3 people to sack he's obviously going to be tempted to sack the person with the weakest business idea or an idea he doesn't like.
 
That defeats the whole idea of the show then really, even more so as we do not know what the business ideas are.
 
Morba said:
So that is gonna be swaying his decision each time he fires someone :(
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That's what I don't like about this new format. For all we know Tom could have presented a great idea, and as soon as they started filming the show LAS could have started looking at his idea seriously right away, and that's already given him an advantage or it could be so good that he already wants to or has actually started the ball rolling with making it happen, regardless of the outcome of the show.
 
Greebo said:
Also:

BOARDROOM receptionist Frances is an actress, not Sir Alan's real secretary. He calls her Frances as that's the name of his real PA

THE boardroom is in fact in a TV studio in West London.

THE post-firing taxi ride takes the candidate around the block to allow their interview to be filmed. They are then taken to a hotel to stay the night and finally leave the next day
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Yeah the studio is in Park Royal, I get my breakfast at the cafe they use sometimes.
 
Robbie G said:
Oh come on, Susie is way out of her depth. Intelligent, yes, but surely anyone that asks the kind of questions she did this week isn't going to be a contender?
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I wouldn't say she is out of her depth.

She is by far the most intelligent. She can think out of the box and has the ability to see things that none of the other candidates can see.

In previous episodes, we have seen her make comments while they are in the cab. She is making recommendations to the project manager, but they are ignoring her. When they get to the boardroom, it then transpires that her suggestion was the correct direction to go, but the PM just didn't agree with her suggestion.

There was an episode where Jim (the Irish Jedi), was the PM. When in the car, she suggests to Jim repeatedly that they need to slash their prices. Jim ignored this and lost.

She also suggested to Jim that the name of the magazine was bad...Jim ignored her and the executives all hated the name of the magazine.

There was an episode where the young white girl was PM. Suzie advised her to either take the office furniture for free OR that they should pay the customer to take the items away. The PM ignored her...low and behold they lost.

In all the above scenarios, nobody apart from her, were able to see these problems. She was the only person in the team who made those suggestions.

The last episode was the one project that she had complete control over and low and behold...she won. Strange comments or not.

This is what you call out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to think in a way that others are not. That can get you far in business as you are more likely to create a product/service than no one else has thought of.

The biggest money makers are usually based on ideas that most people think will not work...the ideas where people laugh at you. Google is a fantastic example - creating a brand new search engine, in a market dominated by giants such as Yahoo, Alta Vista, Microsoft.

Of all the candidates, I would only work with 2:

Jim (the Irish Jedi)
Suzie (her strength is her intelligence...business can be taught by you can't teach someone to be intelligent)
 
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