{"id":107,"date":"2018-04-16T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:20:55","slug":"hometree-feature-in-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dncapital.com\/blog\/hometree-feature-in-financial-times\/","title":{"rendered":"HomeTree feature in FT: ‘The joy of boring business ideas’"},"content":{"rendered":"

DN Portfolio company HomeTree featured in Financial Times on the 11th of April 2018, in an opinion piece written by Jonathan Margolis.<\/h1>\n

‘Slippers, razors and even gas boilers offer ripe pickings for profit and disruption’<\/h2>\n

“A few months ago I got an email from a 28-year-old entrepreneur about his tech company. His pitch was a model of clarity and brevity, devoid of PR-speak. He wrote about \u201caiming to replicate the success of online estate agent Purplebricks in an equally large, albeit more boring market: boiler installations.\u201d I was interested in Simon Phelan and Hometree, his online gas boiler installation company. A smart ex-plumber with a plan to disrupt his own industry is intriguing. And admitting that you are in a \u201cboring\u201d business is refreshingly honest, but clever too, because it is almost unheard of.”<\/p>\n

You can read the original article at:\u00a0http:\/\/ow.ly\/mJ2R30jvDXG<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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