Not My First Guess How to successfully exit your own company, with Tim Deeson
This episode, we're joined by Tim Deeson, serial founder and angel investor with over 20 years of experience building companies. He started his first company Deeson, which grew to be a multi-million pound digital agency, at age just 20.
Tim successfully exited Deeson to co-found GreenShoot Labs, an innovative conversational AI consulting and product development studio. After exiting that, Tim became an Angel Investor and took up a role at LSE as an entrepreneur in residence, giving advice to students, alumni and staff on their start up ideas and business.
Alongside all this work, Tim started to feel the founder itch again, and so it was really lucky that when we met he ignored Hattie's initial attempts to tell him he could not be her co founder, because they were increasingly sharing the same mission of how to make access to the startup ecosystem fairer. Ultimately this led to the beginning of IfWeRaise, a company that Tim and Hattie co-founded in 2022
In this episode we discuss:
- Tim’s journey into entrepreneurship and the surprising difference between selling to bigger and smaller organisations
- Why and how to successfully exit a business that you founded
- Co-founder relationships
- Becoming an Angel Investor
- The importance of focusing on a customer market rather than investor market
- How Hattie and Tim met and the development of IfWeRaise
Tim’s Businesses:
Deeson:
OpenDialog.ai:
If We Raise: