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#Sleeping Duck
Entrepreneur ◆
“We have a huge way to go”: Why Sleeping Duck declined to share their mattress with a shark
The engineers behind rapid-growth mattress startup Sleeping Duck dived into the Shark Tank this week, but surfaced without a deal, after knocking back offers, worth half a million, from both Andrew Banks and Steve Baxter. As they told Dynamic Business, the ‘deal breaker’ wasn’t the equity each shark demanded; rather, they weren’t convinced either could […]
James Harkness · 2 min
Entrepreneur ◆
No sleeping matter: Meet the entrepreneurs tackling the mattress industry
With Sleeping Duck, Winston Wijeyeratne and Selvam Sinnappan have created the perfect example of how the online world is disrupting the retail sector and how those wanting to compete with big businesses need to focus their efforts on bettering their competition’s inadequacies.
Guillermo Troncoso · 2 min