Did you notice how quick the Dragon’s Den investors got rid of Romi Parman from the 3G Dating Agency last night?
Romi presented a way for those looking for love to simply scan a barcode and be directed to the site.
Such a simple concept and one that embraces the new and super-exciting possibilities (as Tomi Ahonen writes about here )
The Dragon’s could arguably be seen as slightly short-sighted perhaps. After all, they based their entire judgement on the fact there were only 900 people using the service and none were matching up so far.
Peter Jones said: “I think you should give up - you’re not going to make any money”.
However, (and I look forward discussing this with Romi in person when we next speak at the same conference) the thing that bugs me the most is the quote of Romi himself on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/ (click on ‘What’s in the Den’) where he says - and this is an exa...
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