MyDish is the brainchild of entrepreneur Carol Savage, who appeared on Dragons’ Den to pitch her website MyDish.co.uk, an online community for people who want to share recipes. Carol walked into the Dragons’ Den asking for £100,000 for a 10% stake in MyDish.

The website at MyDish.co.uk looks very clean, professional and well-designed. A statement from Carol on her homepage indicates that she sees MyDish as a place to collect recipes that may have been handed down through generations, keeping them safe for the family to refer to, and sharing them with the wider MyDish community.

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The brains behind Mask-Arade are three Birmingham entrepreneurs Dean Walton, Chris O’Nyan and Ray Duffy. They appeared on Dragons Den to pitch their mask making business Mask-Arade, using custom made masks of the five Dragons to make a startling and hilarious entry.

The Birmingham-based Mask-Arade have already had some success earlier this year – they supplied 6,000 Ricky Hatton masks for his fight in Vegas against Manny Pacquiao. They also supplied 3,000 masks to West Brom fans for their final game of the season against Blackburn.

Mask-Arade, sometimes mis-spelt Maskerade, produce personalised party products for stag, hen and other parties. They sell masks of anybody you want, full sized stand up cardboard cutouts and face-shaped greetings cards. All of the Mask-Arade products are available to buy online.

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Lid Lifter creators Lawrence Webb and Frank Drewett appeared on Dragons’ Den to pitch their Wheelie Bin Lid Lifter invention. The Wheely Bin Lid Lifter is a clever and innovative device featuring an easy to install pedal system which allows anyone to open a wheely bin without using their hands. In effect, the lid lifter gizmo turns a wheely bin into a pedal bin. This is very useful to the disabled and for people carrying 2 bin bags or more at the same time. It also removes the chance of catching germs and bacteria by having to touch the lid of the wheely bin.

The lid lifter creators were looking for £50,000 for a 25% stake in their product.

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trueCall is the brainchild of entrepreneur Steve Smith, who entered the Dragons’ Den looking for a £100,000 investment in his trueCall device, which stops nuisance phone calls.

trueCall stops nuisance phone calls. Unwanted telephone calls are an increasing and annoying phenomenon. The trueCall unit as seen on Dragons’ Den simply plugs into your telephone line at home, in between your wall socket and telephone.

trueCall screens every call you receive before it allows your phone to ring. If the call is from a friend or family member it lets the call through as normal. However if it doesn’t recognise the number, it asks them to identify themselves.

The Dragons were impressed with the technology behind trueCall, and the way it filters your phone calls so that telemarketers and other unwanted callers never cause your phone to ring. Once a caller has identified themselves using the trueCall system, you can decide to accept the call, add the caller to your friends list, ask trueCall to take a message, or ‘zap’ the caller, asking them politely but firmly not to call again.

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Eddie walked into the Dragon’s Den to showcase his company’s range of eco-friendly patio heaters, one of which was called Zeus. Whilst some of the Dragons including Theo Paphitis had misgivings about Eddie’s attitude, others such as Peter Jones saw good value and innovation in the product. Eddie ended up refusing the offer on the table to seek investment elsewhere.

The patio heaters are eco-friendly, safe, waterproof and effective.

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Buggyboot, the innovative storage device for the back of pushchairs made an appearance on BBC’s Breakfast this morning with its creator Charlotte Evans. Charlotte has been on TV before, pitching the Buggyboot to Dragons Den entrepreneurs Peter Jones, James Caan et al.

Charlotte is the inventor, director and manufacturer of the Buggyboot, and she appeared on Breakfast to discuss intellectual property rights of an invention. Buggyboot is a stylish, practical storage solution for lightweight buggies and pushchairs. It can be easily strapped onto buggies to provide extra storage for shopping, baby changing items or other useful everyday items. Buggyboot will be on sale in May 2009,

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YOTEL is the new business adventure by former Dragons Den regular Simon Woodroffe, creator of the Yo! brand. Everyone is familiar with Simon’s Yo! Sushi outlets, but now his new venture is a new range of innovative new hotels. YOTEL is a capsule hotel, found at major airports. The ‘cabins’ have been designed by the same man who designed the BA First Class cabins, and it was sitting in First Class that gave Simon Woodroffe the idea.

YOTEL rooms are small capsules but size depends on the price you pay, and being just moments walk from check-in or arrivals at major airports of the world such as Gatwick and Heathrow, they are ultra-convenient. Capsule hotels are a success in Japan but this is the first time they have been done in the West.

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Theo Paphitis appeared on Working Lunch today for a business chat with Working Lunch presenter Naga Munchetty. Theo Paphitis is best known for being a multi-millionaire Dragon from the BBC2 hit show Dragon’s Den, but he began his career as a lowly tea-boy. Now though, Theo Paphitis is worth an estimated £125 million. He has transformed high-street retailers La Senza and Ryman’s, and activity company Red Letter Days with fellow Dragon Peter Jones.

In 2008 Theo Paphitis released a book called Enter the Dragon, which tells his story from rags to riches and is a must read for any budding entrepreneur or fan of Dragons Den. Theo Paphitis admitted on Working Lunch to never having a unique idea in his life. Theo said the secret of success is in the executing of ideas better than anyone else in that particular sector – it doesn’t have to be a new idea.

Theo Paphitis told Working Lunch that despite the current economic downturn in Britain, he remains incredibly optimistic. The reason for his optimism is that now is a great time to start a business in terms of the amount of help available for budding entrepreneurs, in terms of mentoring, investment and networking.

Enter the Dragon by Theo Paphitis is available to buy online now.

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An oldie this – the YouDoo Doll first appeared on Dragons’ Den back in 2007, but it re-appeared on last night’s special Dragons’ Den: the Dragons’ Story, which focused on the only female in the Den, Deborah Meaden.

The brainchild of 27 year old Sarah Lu from Brighton, the YouDoo Doll is a customisable make-your-own-doll aimed at the novelty market. Sarah wanted £35,000 for 20% of the YouDoo Doll business. The YouDoo Doll comes with a blank doll which you can put anyone’s face on, also some clothing which you can also personalise and add any slogan you want to.

Deborah Meaden saw an opportunity to make money out of the YouDoo doll and offered the full amount, but for more than twice the amount of equity that Sarah Lu had initially planned to give away – 45%. Despite James Caan undercutting Deborah and offering Sarah a better deal, Sarah decided to accept Deborah’s offer based on what she thought Deborah could bring to the company.

YouDoo doll has been very successful thanks to Sarah Lu and Deborah Meaden, and has now branched out into YouDoo Dogs – customisable make-your-own-pet dolls.

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Have you ever dreamed of climbing the steps up to the Dragons’ Den, sweaty palmed and nervous and ready to pitch your great idea for a business or an invention to five attentive multi-millionaires? If so, then the book ‘Dragons’ Den: Success, from Pitch to Profit’ is written for you.

Dragons’ Den: Success, from Pitch to Profit is a helpful guide to anyone starting out with a new business idea. It is packed with insight and strategies used by the Dragons themselves. Six Dragons wrote this book: Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones, former Dragon Richard Farleigh, Theo Paphitis and James Caan, with Dragons’ Den presenter Evan Davis listed as a contributer to the book.

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