Tim Deeson

Founder, advisor, and angel investor. Author of Don’t Raise Yet.

The book

Don’t Raise Yet

  1. 01Prove it with customers.
  2. 02Raise from strength.
  3. 03Stay in control.

Prove your idea with paying customers before you build, then decide with evidence how to fund what comes next.

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I've walked the early-stage journey with hundreds of founders, as Entrepreneur in Residence at the London School of Economics, an early-stage advisor, and an angel investor.

I've been a founder too. I built and sold Deeson, a profitable, founder-owned tech services company, then co-founded OpenDialog, which started on consulting revenue before raising venture capital. That revenue-first, raise-later path is the one my book maps.