StoryCode in the Dragons' Den
You are forgiven for not checking out our blog very often, really, you are. We have not proven to be very regular bloggers, which has made this a rather poor investment of your time to date, but then we are really, really, very busy trying to earn a crust whilst developing our StoryCode baby. Some of you may suggest that blogging about it would be a good way of attracting more interest, and indeed you are probably right - note to self.
Anyway, one of the things we have done recently is to pitch our StoryCode business to the Dragons (i.e. Angel Investors) of the BBC's entrepreneur TV show Dragons' Den. If you are from the UK, you are probably familiar with it already; if you are from the US then it is a bit like American Inventor; if you are from neither territory then these sites will give you a pretty good idea what we faced in an attempt to raise money (and profile, of course) to develop StoryCode.
For now, all my agreement with the BBC will allow me to do is to alert you to the broadcast date for our episode, which is Thursday 14th September 2006, at 8.00pm UK time on BBC2, which is tomorrow! The BBC is streaming the complete programmes from their web site and you can see the Episode 7 preview and Before the Den talking heads. If you are outside the UK, it is unlikely the BBC site will let you view these, so hopefully someone will put them on YouTube or Google Video!
Come back here on Friday, when I will post an update and some more feedback, and please bear in mind that we haven't seen the broadcast footage!
Steve Johnston
5 Comments:
Hard luck Steve! Shame they didn't 'get it'
Just watched the show online. I thought you were really good, Steve. Nice presentation.
I can't stand all those dragons, they just seem to be after quick easy money.
Watched the TV programme - from the edit it appeared that you didn't explain features and benefits as well as you could have, but I guess it's all in the edit and TV story-telling lends itself to public humiliation.
I think the product is innovative and has every chance of succeeding. I know who's face the egg will have landed on!
I saw the DD programme last night and think you have a great product.
Don't be disheartened by the Dragons, they just look for vulnerable individuals they can easily exploit anyway...
I fear the Dragon's may be correct (although Mr Jones was a bit of an obnoxious twerp as usual).
It's a bit of a pain grading all those categories for every book. Also the MyStoryCode does not appear to work. No record of my input at all.
I think librarything is sufficient for recommendations and does much much more.
Let's hope I'm wrong.
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