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,

Click here to buy Buggyboot as seen on Breakfast and Dragon’s Den

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.

Click here to book a capsule at YOTEL, founded by Simon Woodroffe as seen on The Wright Stuff and Dragons Den

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.

Click here to buy Enter the Dragon by Theo Paphitis as seen on Working Lunch

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.

Click here to purchase a YouDoo Doll, or a YouDoo Dog, as seen on Dragons’ Den

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.

Click here to buy Dragons’ Den: Success, from Pitch to Profit

The iTeddy is an innovative toy created by entrepreneur Imran Hakim and pitched to the Dragons on Dragon’s Den. Dragons Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis saw great potential in the iTeddy, an interactive teddy bear for kids featuring an inbuilt media player with LCD screen and controls allowing children to watch movies, cartoons, play music and games, and much more. Extra downloadable content is available from the iTeddy website, www.iteddy.com.

Other features of the iTeddy include a USB port, half a gig of memory, expandable SD card slot, built in speaker and built in rechargeable battery. The I-teddy is getting rave reviews and Dragons Den has really helped to launch the product and turn it’s creator, Imran Hakim, into an overnight success story.

Click here to purchase an iTeddy as seen on Dragon’s Den.

The Baby Loves Disco idea was brought into the Dragon’s Den by American Andy and Naomi Timperley from the UK.

Andy and Naomi were first into the Den and were looking for a £100,000 investment for a 10% stake in Baby Loves Disco UK Limited.

Baby Loves Disco was started in the US in 2005. The premise was simple: to create an event that children and parents can enjoy together. Baby Loves Disco was started in New York City, and is now in 30 cities in the US.

The event is for parents and childen aged 8 months to 7 years, and features a DJ playing classic hits from the 70′s and 80′s. Baby Loves Disco is a three hour event on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in a baby-proofed venue. Nappy changing facilities are available along with healthy snacks and juice boxes for the children. Face painting and a chill out area also feature as part of a Baby Loves Disco event.

The Baby Loves Disco compilation CD is available to buy from 18th October containing non stop club classics and some more recent fresh tracks to keep you on your toes. To purchase the Baby Loves Disco compilation CD, click here

Rachel Watkin and Christian Richardson walked into the Dragon’s Den asking for a £53,000 investment for a 20% stake in the Tiny Box Company, trading for about six months.

The Tiny Box Company are the only company in the UK that solely deal in recycled packaging. They do all different kinds of boxes, specifically for the gift and jewellery sectors.

For more information about the Tiny Box Company and to place an order, you can visit their website by clicking here

Martin Wadsworth from Atherton near Manchester walked into the Dragon’s Den looking for a £150,000 investment for a 10% stake in his company Discrete Heat, who manufacture and supply an innovative and energy efficient form of room heating – heated skirting boards.

According to Martin last night on Dragon’s Den, his skirting board heating solution was preferable to radiators and underfloor heating. Radiators are disliked by homeowners for cosmetic reasons, and are not particularly energy efficient due to the way they convect the heat rather than radiate the heat. Underfloor heating is difficult to retro fit involving the uprooting of floorboards, and can be very costly.

James Caan described the skirting heating as ’pretty neat’ as a concept. Duncan was worried about the cost of installing the skirting board heating to the homeowner, but Martin stood up well to the verbal sparring with Mr Bannatyne.

For more information about Discrete Heat and their skirting heating, you can visit their website and download a brochure by clicking here  

Tiny Deol from Leicester was looking for a £52,000 investment from the Dragon’s Den for a 15% stake in her fat and cholesterol free curry sauces. Tiny Deol is the world’s first fat and cholesterol free curry sauces, which have a 2 year shelf life, authentically based and have the green traffic lights of the Food Standards Agency.

Unlike other curry sauces on the market, Tiny Deol curry sauce is made with no oil, butter, artificial preservatives, no added sugar, no gluten, wheat, eggs or nuts. Tiny Deol first made an appearance successfully on the QVC shopping channel, and has had nationwide interest from most of the major supermarket chains.

Tiny Deol, previously branded as curry slim, is currently available to buy from the official Tiny Deol website. You can buy a jar of Tiny Deol curry and taste the product for yourself by clicking here

Alternatively you can buy Curry Slim: The World’s First Healthy Curry Diet DVD starring Tiny Deol, by clicking here