When Lee Dein got five nos from the Dragons’ Den panel after pitching her education business, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Lee appeared on the BBC show four years ago in a bid to expand her company, Magic Link Handwriting, which provides online courses for school children to improve their handwriting.
However, she told Metro.co.uk that when dragons Peter Jones, Touker Suleyman, Deborah Meaden, Jenny Campbell and Tej Lalvani, declined to invest in her venture, it did not dampen her spirits.
‘When someone says “No”, You just want to fight even harder, don’t you?’ the speech and language therapist and dyslexia teacher said.
Lee even admitted she was glad to receive no investment on Dragons’ Den as she feared the entrepreneurs would have ultimately meddled with her vision.
‘I was secretly relieved,’ she revealed.
‘When you’re an entrepreneur, you’re very driven and have a vision and so, if somebody then took it over and tried to guide me into a different direction, I …