TV Criticism
Colorful adhesive strips and meatball seasoning? Not every product in the “Den of the Lions” deserved an innovation award. Two papermakers from Bavaria, on the other hand, presented a “miracle cardboard” and provided real tinder.
You don’t have to find Georg Kofler’s idea of making money good. But when the South Tyrolean gets into a rage, there is life in the booth. In the current episode, he took on a founding duo that shields houses against electromagnetic radiation. “Hocus pocus” is it, the mid-sixties etched, “a matter of sects”, “ridiculous”. Carsten Maschmeyer caught his colleague with a smile: “You have the shortest fuse of all lions, Georg. Are you thirsty? Do you want to go home?”
This time in the “Den of the Lions”:
• – Spice mixes for minced meat specialties
• Kohpa – Special paper for heating and to ward off electromagnetic radiation
• Miniatouring – Handcrafted mini caravans
• portHy – Cell phone chains as disinfectant dispensers
• – Art with tape
The most contaminated deal
“Is that the absolute mad thing that will change the building world in the long term?” Asked Nico Rosberg to the group. For the founders of Kohpa, of course, that was just a rhetorical question. Two years ago, said the younger of the two proudly, they had received an offer for the patents worth six million euros. The electrically conductive “miracle paper” made of carbon fibers can do two things: when stuck to the wall, it can be used as a heater. Alternatively, you can wrap your whole house in it to protect yourself against 5G, for example.
What Kofler thought of it is well known. But Nico Rosberg (“I always turn off the WLAN at night”) and Carsten Maschmeyer (“You have to pay attention to the negative energy of radiation”) came out as radiation skeptics – and got in. Dagmar Wöhrl followed suit and completed the divining rod trio.
The founder of hearts
If you are angry, you could say: A tragic fate is the guarantee for a deal in “The Lions’ Den”. The eponymous inventor of Ms. Poppe lost her eyesight in a car accident in the early 1970s. “Since then she only trusts her hearing and her taste,” whispered the commentary voice in the single player on heavy violins. With the help of her son-in-law, the hobby cook brought a mixture of spices (stern tested the product) on the market, with which meatballs should taste like homemade. Product innovation value: zero.
But the lions hit it like the show’s caterer got sick. Dagmar Wöhrl, who is always there where the feelings are, made the blind founder an offer (“You are a role model for many people”) – but, as so often, was thwarted by Ralf Dümmel (“I love meatballs!”). Mrs. Poppe went with Mr. Regal.
Who is glued, who lives?
Taping is all the rage. You didn’t even know. The four chilled-out Hooray-hey-ho guys from Tape Art from Berlin love to glue everything in their lives and, above all, everything: here a room in Japan, there a facade in Kuwait. In their in-house Tape Art Academy, they train new adhesive kids who will hopefully buy the colorful stripes they have produced themselves. And the graying lions? The Gaffer founders really got on the glue.
First and foremost Georg Kofler, who found the whole thing “intuitively beautiful” and dreamed of production units in the 500,000 range (“Can you do it?” – “No problem”). When Judith Williams finally bid, and the Lords of the Tapes were already on the phone backstage, the investors changed their mind and made a joint offer. Deal perfect. Perhaps we will find out in one of the upcoming DHDL issues that the next hot thing is solvents.
No deal of the week
What an idea: cell phone chains filled with disinfectant. Sure, the portable hygiene accessory portHy does not lack a certain logic in these times. “But”, objected Carsten Maschmeyer, “you are too late on the subject. There are now disinfectant dispensers everywhere.” The product did not suit the self-proclaimed venture capitalist at all. Just the fact that the chain must be attached to a cell phone case. “I don’t have a shell.”
There was moaning from all sides. Georg Kofler, as a “nature boy”, did not like to disinfect himself every five minutes. Judith Williams complained that the nozzle is leaking and staining her silk blouse. And Nils Glagau accused the founding team from Düsseldorf of using the pandemic for a business. Only Ralf Dümmel briefly showed interest, but found the company valuation too high. Get out without applause.
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Jane Stock is a technology author, who has written for 24 Hours World. She writes about the latest in technology news and trends, and is always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve his audience’s experience.
