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Lord Sugar who? Luisa gets 16 investors on board (according to her)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2368740/The-Apprentice-runner-Luisa-Zissman-16-investors-board-baking-business.html
She fell at the final hurdle on Wednesday night after weeks of competing to win an apprenticeship with Lord Sugar.
But The Apprentice loser Luisa Zissman has already managed to put the loss behind her, by securing an alternative investment for her baking business.
The 25-year-old, who lost out to Leah Totton in the final, has revealed she has 16 investors on board and will launch her online firm selling baking supplies later this year.
Luisa even tweeted she was glad she didn't win Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment.
She revealed she spent Wednesday, the day of the final, pitching her Bakers Toolkit business idea to a company called Angels Den - which connects entrepreneurs with investors.
She told her Twitter fans: 'Thanks for all your support!! Sorry I didn't win! But pitched today to @AngelsDen & have 16 Investors interested!
'@AngelsDen is a MUCH better investment for me personally would defo recommend!! X'
Luisa later added: 'Being an entrepreneur is about picking urself up dusting urself off and focusing on the nx thing (sic).'
And Luisa snubbed Lord Sugar yet again by advising her Twitter followers not to bother applying for the BBC show - but go straight to Angels Den.
She tweeted: 'Instead of applying for the apprentice check out @AngelsDen I pitched today and have 16 investors on board to make Bakers Toolkit happen!!'
Ahead of the airing of the final, which was filmed several months ago, Luisa was seen out with her estranged husband Oliver on Wednesday.
Luisa looked chic in a mint green dress from The Pretty Dress Company as she and Oliver picked up groceries in London.
Although the pair have called time on their marriage, Oliver was supportive of his estranged wife throughout The Apprentice final on Wednesday night, rooting for the young entrepreneur via his Twitter page.
Answering a friend's query as to whether Luisa was 'gutted' to have lost out at the final furlong, he wrote: 'haha, she was yes. Not that she had to be :-) Been the best thing to come runner up!'
It is thought that as well as raising their three-year-old daughter together, Oliver - a former enterprise award winner - has some involvement in Luisa's three bakery businesses.
She fell at the final hurdle on Wednesday night after weeks of competing to win an apprenticeship with Lord Sugar.
But The Apprentice loser Luisa Zissman has already managed to put the loss behind her, by securing an alternative investment for her baking business.
The 25-year-old, who lost out to Leah Totton in the final, has revealed she has 16 investors on board and will launch her online firm selling baking supplies later this year.
Luisa even tweeted she was glad she didn't win Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment.
She revealed she spent Wednesday, the day of the final, pitching her Bakers Toolkit business idea to a company called Angels Den - which connects entrepreneurs with investors.
She told her Twitter fans: 'Thanks for all your support!! Sorry I didn't win! But pitched today to @AngelsDen & have 16 Investors interested!
'@AngelsDen is a MUCH better investment for me personally would defo recommend!! X'
Luisa later added: 'Being an entrepreneur is about picking urself up dusting urself off and focusing on the nx thing (sic).'
And Luisa snubbed Lord Sugar yet again by advising her Twitter followers not to bother applying for the BBC show - but go straight to Angels Den.
She tweeted: 'Instead of applying for the apprentice check out @AngelsDen I pitched today and have 16 investors on board to make Bakers Toolkit happen!!'
Ahead of the airing of the final, which was filmed several months ago, Luisa was seen out with her estranged husband Oliver on Wednesday.
Luisa looked chic in a mint green dress from The Pretty Dress Company as she and Oliver picked up groceries in London.
Although the pair have called time on their marriage, Oliver was supportive of his estranged wife throughout The Apprentice final on Wednesday night, rooting for the young entrepreneur via his Twitter page.
Answering a friend's query as to whether Luisa was 'gutted' to have lost out at the final furlong, he wrote: 'haha, she was yes. Not that she had to be :-) Been the best thing to come runner up!'
It is thought that as well as raising their three-year-old daughter together, Oliver - a former enterprise award winner - has some involvement in Luisa's three bakery businesses.
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http://www.angelsden.com/Luisa/Index.aspx
Nice to see that she's not going down the Katie Hopkins route (for now at least) though.
I do believe that Angel's Den has a minimum investment amount of 5k so even if each of the 16 only invested the minimum then that would still be 80k... Not as much as LS offers but still a decent amount.
Does she honestly believe she would have these investors interested had she not had national television exposure through the Apprentice?
As for advising people not to go on the programme, talk about biting the hand that feeds. Would she have been so successful in gaining investors if she hadn't been on the show? I doubt it. And as has been said above, crowdfunding tends to result in lots of small investments. Has she raised £250,000? Probably not. Will she get the same kind of advice and contacts that Sugar could have provided? Absolutely not.
I'm not sure how she can be so sure that this is a better way to go than via Sugar and The Apprentice. Of course, it may just be that she's just blowing smoke ...
I think Louisa thinks she doesnt need advice and wouldnt take it anyway. I suppose the whole business world knows her already so she doesnt need LS to introduce her.
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/why-luisa-zissman-real-winner-apprentice-131400895.html
Young people think they know it all.
Her husband either ex or not seems to be playing a large part. People have lost money with him, would anyone trust him again.
Well you know my views on that. There is no excuse for losing people money and having done it once can do it again.
He is her biggest liability. I cant understand why she doesnt realise that.
Sugar made an interesting comment on YH about not understanding the value of regulation when he was a younger man. I think the same is true of the power of networking and relationships. At the kind of level at which Luisa has previously operated, she has probably been able to knock on doors quite effectively herself. However, when it comes to getting in to see category buyers at the likes of the grocery multiples or Hobbycraft, I think she will discover that - as the old saying goes - it's not so much what she knows as who she knows that really matters, and I fear she will discover how much value Sugar could have potentially added.
I would have thought that there would be some restrictions or copyright issues with themes developed whilst on the show?
Happy to be corrected but she has used the cartoon image of herself for he new company.
Might be a complicated intellectual property issue.
Play fast with the numbers again,