@@Chilling_Chilling nah you have to make the word 'classroom' start with a higher voice octave like she did: "like children in the "CCCCCCCCCCCaaaaallassooom!!!"😂😂
Tips for Dragons: 1. Put your neck on the line for Peter. 2. Have proper patent for Deborah. 3. Minimum 10%, so Touka gets out of bed. 4. Anything vitamins related product for Tej. 5. Do Not interrupt Jenny when she's out.
What is it trying to do if not revive hand writing? Steve Jobs famous diss of the stylus back in 07 was due to the fact that capacitive screens allowed for accurate finger input. Prior phones needed a stylus for accurate input. He never foresaw the future - people do want to write on tablets and large screen formats. It's evident in the support across multiple software platforms and apps that convert handwriting to font. I take your point they are not trying to 'revive' it, but they are adapting their tech to real world uses.
There’s literally THOUSANDS of very clear and basic fonts that have existed for over a decade. There’s also endless handwriting books exactly like this. She has nothing remotely unique here.
@@thepremierleaguechat.6519 She is doing good for herself, but not as a 10% investment for them-it would probably be a decade before they got their money back.
@@nadominhoca hey just want to chime in and say I also think it's uninvestable because, just like OP, I too am extremely smart because I watch a television show. /s Seriously why do people think they have anything to offer just because they watch the same show we all do? Watch, next this marble brained joker will start giving culinary advice because they watched Hell's Kitchen. The stupidity of some people is just astounding lmaoooo
I was a classroom assistant for 7 years. She's talking absolute crap when she says handwriting is too complicated to teach correctly. Several times I was assigned to help individual pupils with their handwriting and their ability improved significantly within two weeks. Instead of buying this, schools are better off hiring more support staff who can work with kids 1-to-1.
UncleFeedle i forgot we have specialists on RU-vid. You certainly know that employing people with all the benefits, liabilities, etc is waaaaay more expensive than having the parents buying books for their kids right?!
when I was in school learning to write, we had to write each letter in both variants on 20 pages. 40 pages per latter (20 for lowercase 20 for capital) It was like printing. And we did this for each letter. You learn to write but it's tedious. But that's how they thought us. There is no way to fail at that.
Ludak021 I was born on mid-80s. Things were different back in the days. Nowadays kids are writing less and less. Its all about phones, tablets, keyboards.
@@nadominhoca I know, but that's in schools that tolerate distractions. Maybe it's me, but I prefer for kids basic education to go unhindered by stuff like phones and tablets in classes. I mean, to them those are toys, and I wasn't, and neither were you I'd bet, allowed to play with toys during class (if I'd have any in school for that matter). They should learn basics firsts, they will have plenty of time to forget how to write by hand later :)
That's the problem with most teachers I've spent time with outside of school. They tend to treat everyone like children. They never leave the classroom (mentally) and behave like holier-than-thou control freaks.
I’m a teacher and I despair that a lot of other teachers have that sort of infuriating streak. The problem begins when you treat kids like they’re kids. As soon as you start thinking “I am a teacher” in any sort of pervasive way, you’ve gone irretrievably insane. Having said that, I thought the lady was very charming and I felt sorry that she didn’t get investment.
My ex was a teacher and would constantly ask me if I needed to go to the toilet while we were out and would read out items on menus at restaurants among other things, seriously got grating after a while.
At what point did Apple and Samsung ever see people's handwriting and think, "People can't write these days. I know! Let's make a stylus so they can be better at writing on screens!"
Yeah, Deborah is the patent, and really paperwork, queen of that group of investors, I've yet to see any of the others skim through a pile of papers full of legalese writing but her.
As a student I'm kind of drooling over the Remarkable tablet that lets you make notes with a pen on a tablet. So that market is definitely there. Not sure about this one though.
@@rohilthomson go back 15 years... maybe more.. there were still devices that used a stylus and had note taking features and also made calls. Her whole notion that smartphones created this feature is ridiculous.
@@r3dp3anut41 The late 80s and 90s definitely had note taking PDAs way before smartphones. Apple even had a PDA that flopped known as the Newton which used a Stylus
I love how the Dragons so often give real advice, even when they don't invest. Like Touker telling her she doesn't need to sell her equity to hire a salesforce.
That's what I love them. Yes, they can be hardasses from time to time and they have definitely been wrong on more than one occasion, but they will give helpful advice when they see that the entrepreneurs will benefit from it. In this case they knew it wasn't worth the risk and additional hassle for them or the teacher.
@@pallipdrsn0 precedes means before. So in your statement, the sentence would read 'patent this is not a.', which of course is a grammatical nightmare. I have stated follows, as in comes after, meaning the entire sentence would read 'this is not a patent.' Have a great day. :)
She's the type of teacher who wastes days on end getting kids to "write" properly. Later those kid will get an office job where they will never pick up a damn pen in years. My handwriting was always terrible and it didn't matter one tiny bit.
Same here I type much faster than writing, so I now write as fast as possible that only I and probably doctors can read. I got that one English teacher that forced us to learn how to write cursive, then the next year with roundhand (the very old English font in the 1600s style). I got a lower score with because of a bad handwriting, but then another student got a full score and spelled "excellence" as "ccclllccc" because it was more beautiful. I've heard that she had a fake degree from an online college, but still retired without getting caught, so yeah lol.
@@warmpianist dude that's literal calligraphy. Spelling and art use different sides of the brain🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ god someone needs to start gatekeeping teachers. But its such a low paying job that I'm sure they hire whoever they can get
The only reason Peter was so quiet in the first minutes it's because her voice bought back memories of his childhood teacher... bad memories... "Bad Peter... BAD... do you think you will acomplish anything in your life..." that's why Peter was sweating and nervous...
Many teachers do have the habit of speaking to adults in a slightly condescending way, which is ok with a classroom full of 6 year olds, not ok with 40 somethings
7:43: "'Patent', look, the word 'patent'..." Definitely treating Deborah as a child. 'Look, Deborah, this piece of paper has the word 'patent' on it. That means I have a patent.'
Does Deborah know the difference between a patent and a design When she tried to explain it, she only said "the patent is much stronger". I guess she must know it, but I expected a better answer.
@@asdzxc7095 Patent = invention Design = the way the invention looks The 7 vertical slot grill on Jeep vehicles is a registered design. Take a look at a Vietnam War jeep, the M151, it uses a different looking grill because the M151 comes from Ford. The registration of the design meant that only Jeep could use that grill design. The Ford M151 horizontal slot grill does exactly the same thing. The kind of thing that would be patented would be a grill itself. What you can patent is particular features, for example, a grill that keeps stones out of the radiator, lets air in, and holds the headlights.
3:57 that's when I knew she was completely delusional. Seriously, I don't think I've ever heard anything so ridiculous on DD. Apple and Samsung are making styli, therefore my business is worth 600 grand. Just wut? It's a good thing she's not teaching business. Or logic. And the book is just sentences with lines underneath. Worst pitch ever.
I've seen more ridiculous, sadly. The woman who thought she was brilliant for stitching names into the backs of knickers comes to mind. Or the couple with special cutlery to teach kids to eat properly.
@@maccoll3644 What do you mean "what rubbish"? You try learning the strokes and stroke orders for all of the Kanji for even just the JLPT level 1. The other Japanese alphabets are actually quite straightforward, but Kanji is many times more complex than English alphabet characters.
This woman embodies everything I dislike about a lot of teachers! "I'm going to treat the dragons like children"... So glad she got schooled by the dragons
What % Touker not getting out of bed for a low%? Or trying to sell his London office space? Or Tej building brands and asking people about themselves? Or Deborah asking to see patents? Or Peter asking for twice as much equity as the others and usually still getting the deal?
Nobody: you're a millionaire? Me: yeah! Nobody: can I see proof? Me: yes, *hands piece of paper saying 'you can be millionaire with hard work'* Nobody: this doesn't mean you're a millionaire?! Me: IT SAYS THE WORD MILLIONAIRE!!
I cringed so much. Explaining patents to Debra of all people. Was she expecting for Debra who is looking at the document to be like you are right, this document has the single use of the word patent. Despite looking at hundreds of these I needed you to point it out.
10:25 Jenny "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS" That made me snort. I love all of Jenny's reasons for not investing. They never make any sense but they're all funny
Ive worked with plenty of teachers and shes copying the very basics of every handwriting lesson. The books by Letts and other companies already exist, have a good reputation and have a big/massive market share.
When I was at primary school I was taught italic writing which involves an exaggerated up-tick at the end of each letter. It was horrendously ugly. As soon as I moved to high school, I changed my writing entirely. I also had left-handed kids in my class who were made to write right-handed. It forced them to turn their wrist completely inwards to be able to write. Forcing a certain style of writing on a child is not always a good idea.
williamgeorgefraser same with my primary all handwriting had to be joined up and lettering had to look a certain way and my writing was awful I’m also left handed as well
We were taught the opposite. All of our writing had to be perfect, non-slanted, well-spaced chars with no flourishes or joins. I write with a natural slant, always have done, and it drove me to desperation every time my books came back with red circles, underlines and marks all over them, with points deducted, just because my handwriting wasn't perfect. Thing is I went to a Chinese-vernacular semi-private school, and Chinese chars have to be practiced and taught this way, as even a single extra tick or line could change the entire meaning, and slanting was the preserve of calligraphy. They evidently presumed that Roman alphabet could be taught the same way, and furthermore we had to be absolutely dogmatic about it. We never learned cursive, and were penalised if we ever wrote "messily". Our teachers would literally hold a ruler against our lines to check that spaces between letters within individual words, and spaces between words, didn't exceed or go under x number of millimetres. They even disabled the font options on the word processors on our (then very-rudimentary) computers so we would never learn that stylistic alternatives existed. It was horrendous. Once in secondary school, I found the penmanship with which I was most comfortable, and have basically written like that ever since. Apart from tending to be a bit small, no one has ever complained that they couldn't read my writing. And I'm proud to say it looks almost nothing like what I was taught.
She has a respectable business which can probably, with enough time and effort, scale to having a yearly 100k+ pounds net profit with a couple of other teachers and logistics people, becoming a decently profitable SME. Kudos to her.
I think she could've taken this further or in another direction, she could've included an app that helped with this and help apply that towards design and such
If anything Touker dropping out is nicer than making an offer because he says she doesn't really need a Dragon and she can easily get more business negotiations already with a salesperson and keep all her equity.
