Episode
Dragons' Den: Episode 5
Overview
Projects up for investment this week include an unusual coffee lid, a range of coconut-based products, and a safety device for hairstyling gadgets.
Details
- Series
- Dragons' Den
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2016-08-21
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Episode 5 is Episode 5 in Season 14 of Dragons' Den. It aired on 2016-08-21. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 4
Dragons' Den is back and is open for business. Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman, Sarah Willingham and Nick Jenkins take their seats to face a fresh batch of entrepreneurs who dare to enter through the Den doors.
In this episode, tensions are running high as an entrepreneur ruffles some feathers in the Den when he fails to clarify his restaurant business model, a husband-and-wife duo fight to defend their innovative drilling tool gadget, and it is sink or swim for a businessman pitching his portable water-saving product. But will any of the Dragons see the potential in his eco-friendly design, or will they wash their hands of it?
Episode 6
A merchant navy officer-turned-product designer demonstrates his tablet holder, while two proud parents pitch their organic skincare product for babies. A young entrepreneur hopes to impress with his activity monitor for pets, but will the Dragons see the potential in his innovative product, or will he be left in the dog house?
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Episode 10
The Dragons ponder the investment potential in pop-up inflatable igloos, a meat-free hot-dog restaurant concept and a canine poop-scooping device. Will the Dragons find the product barking, or will dog-lover Deborah Meaden be tempted to take a punt?
Episode 11
Budding entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to multimillionaires. Touker Suleyman gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to road test an intimate waxing product, an entrepreneur makes a shocking revelation about sleeping on his office floor and a serial inventor who says he has re-invented the surfboard and designed a parachute for NASA brings his latest garden shed invention to the Den.
Episode 12
Evan Davis presents the business ideas contest, with panellists Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones, Touker Suleyman, Sarah Willingham and Nick Jenkins assessing the profit-making potential of a range of dolls inspired by historical events, a new kind of bicycle indicator light, and a honey-infused drink made by a pair of beekeepers.
Episode 13
An entrepreneur gets emotional when pitching her language teaching for kids, a businessman with a security device for patio doors tries to lock in some Dragon cash and a couple with an innovative device for the hard of hearing get short shrift when they discuss their business set-up. Finally, one half of a duo behind a soup range enters the Den, but with his business partner too camera shy to face the Dragons, will he be able to withstand their interrogation alone?