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Who was best - the final


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Joseph 30 48.39%
Vana 32 51.61%
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Old 20-12-2015, 20:52
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Old 20-12-2015, 20:53
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Old 20-12-2015, 22:27
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Vana wiped the floor with Joseph, particularly in pitching. Still wasn't surprised Sugar picked Joseph tho given the whole "Seeing himself when he was young" aspect and Joseph constantly kissing LS's ass over that book
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Old 20-12-2015, 22:33
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Vana did better, but she was committed to a plan that simply wasn't going to be viable with the the investment on offer. That being said, Joseph deserves props for his decision to take the "smart plumbing" idea and run with it; I think that if he hadn't done that, Sugar would have hired Vana and had her heavily rework her business plan, maybe base it around licensing out the underlying technology instead of developing the whole app.
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Old 21-12-2015, 06:38
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Vana's pitch was brilliant but I cannot take to her in any way. A loud, over confident woman, with an interest in astrology and a wish to devote herself to promoting a dating agency...
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Old 21-12-2015, 07:34
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Vana was better at every aspect. I'm seriously angry. They need to shake up the format or edit the show better, stop showing a candidate putting no foot wrong throughout a task only for Sugar to turn and fire them.

Vana picked the team well even though she didn't like them. She went out of her way to communicate well with the industry experts. She showed she had contacts, she went out of her way to be professional. She shot a good ad, she made a good billboard. She led the team well despite the fiery personalities of Richard and Charliene that she had to manage. She came up with the name and the branding of her company. Basically the whole episode showed her to be competent and successful and Joseph bumbling along like a comedy extra with no clear ideas, taking an idea to do smart technology from a woman at the industry meeting with no idea of even what it was and tacking that on to the ad at the last minute, and then sucking up to Sugar in the final with all the references to his book and their shared identity. Makes my blood boil that kind of thing!

He won. So surely he was at least adequately competent and Vana may have had her failings. So is it too hard to shoot the show to illustrate that?? Not everything has to be a big twist at the end - it just seems like you've pulled it out of nowhere at that point! A twist for twist's sake. Grr!
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Old 21-12-2015, 09:54
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What I thought was strange is that Vana kept saying she's done her homework has vast experience in the digital media, websites etc. but had to send part of her team out to find out how much an App coast to make. Surely as this is a fundamental part of her pitch, she should of know this already, and as it was proved her idea wasn't workable with 250k
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Old 21-12-2015, 10:45
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I think the choice of Joseph had very little to do with the final task.

Who won the final task?

There were no measurable elements such as sales or profit.
It comes down to who was the better project manager. On balance I thought that was Vana.
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