Money makers: Why I told the Dragons “no deal”

Rimi Thapar went on TV's Dragons' Den looking for funding for her vegan food company, LoveRaw – but she wouldn't accept any offer at any price.

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Rimi Thapar: not so desperate

Rimi Thapar, 34, had been making good money as a hedge-fund marketer for Merrill Lynch, says Siofra Brennan in the Daily Mail. "It was a nice life, with a good salary, but I never wanted to be one of those people who gets hooked on the salary then can't do anything else," says Thapar. "I remember watching a cookery show and thinking, I could do that'", adding that she found the labelling and ingredients used in processed foods "really confusing". So, in 2013, she bought a blender and started "messing around" in the kitchen, working around the clock to fulfill her first order of 500 boxes of her snack bars from WholeFoods.

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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