Cheers for the support. As you can imagine a huge knockback like that takes a bit of getting over. As I said in the initial post above the BBC are not to blame because they want to make interesting TV.
Dragons are not to blame because its their money, and their call so I dont feel too bad.. My only whine was that I wished they would have broadcast it.
But drawing a line under the whole thing I am getting ready to prepare to announce some better news fairly soon.
Late last year prior to the broadcast I was offered a last minute stand at Interbuild. At the time I thought nooo way because in 3 months time I am going to be on TV.
But something inside said not to count my chickens.... So I went ahead and did the Interbuild show. Wow - we had a huge amount of commercial interest and I had 24 rock solid contacts. From 24 contacts we are down to 1.
As a direct result of my own efforts in attending Interbuild I have been negotiating with a well respected UK distributor.
At this point in time (Mid to End Feb 2008) things look very promising for this kit to be adopted by a distributor and put into the retail market.
As you can imagine the distributor is asking a lot from me in terms of rights, logos, names, images, branding etc. To be blunt we may have to hand over almost everything. But in return they offer an attractive deal.
Thanks so much for the upbeat comments. Between now and June 2008 we will keep going and banging away at it but I believe the next (obvious) stage is coming up fast...
Its taken 2 years of development and door knocking to convince the hard harsh world of retail that we are ready. Soon as I have something factual to report I'll post it as a seperate thread.
