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In the five year history of Dragons' Den, it is hard to remember a more perfect pitch than that of Sharon Wright. Would-be entrepreneurs should take note of it as a textbook example of how it should be done. (For my checklist of ten key lessons from Sharon's success, go to the post-script to this article).

But you may have missed the most extraordinary sign of her success.

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She not only got more money than she had asked for (that is not unique in fact, it has a happened couple of times before in the Den). She also managed to secure her investment on better terms than she had originally asked for.

In other words, she sold shares in her company at a higher price than she had originally been demanding. I don't think that has ever happened before.

This is the calculation.

She came in looking for £50,000 for 15% of the business. That means she was effectively offering each one per cent of her company to the Dragons for £3,333 (50,000 divided by 15).

James and Duncan offered her £80,000 for 25% shaving a small amount off her price for each percentage share, taking it down to £3,200.

But she ultimately got them to accept £80,000 for 22.5% of the business, making the final price of each share £3,555. She got £222 more for each share than she had been asking when she came in.

A true dragon slayer.

Last updated: 22 July 2009