The exponential founder

Dan Batten

Inside tips and coaching points to optimise the performance of a tech company - for the board member, investor and ecosystem of supporters of the tech founder

Episodes

  1. 06/25/2019

    The secret of how top tech investors get the best deal flow

    Angel investors, fund managers and High Net Worth investors are either winning or losing they best deal flow based on a specific combination of EQ, behaviour and values. This episode looks at what this combination is, and specific ways to communicate that will maximise your chances of investment in the best, without impacting the rigour of your due diligence

    35 min

  2. 06/21/2019

    What do directors of highly effective tech companies do?

    Many board members never get trained in how to be a director beyond low level governance. Worse they offer advise that isn’t required to founders who ha want asked for it. And they create an adversarial environment which puts tech companies on a path to failure. It there are some definite ways to avoid these pitfalls and help model the high standards you want your tech-CEO to exhibit. This podcast discusses how to do that.

    27 min
  3. Avoiding the traps that non-tech investors make after they invest in a tech company

    06/19/2019

    Avoiding the traps that non-tech investors make after they invest in a tech company

    Tech companies follow some very different growth-rules to non-tech companies. But they absolutely follow rules. There are definite ways to tell if your tech-investment is on-track. But they are not the measures you’re used to and by applying the measures you’re used to from non-business, to tech business you can do significant damage to your investment.

    31 min
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