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The Exponential Podcast

by Tim Bates

The Exponential podcast is for entrepreneurs, investors, and those looking to build or help build the next great technology company. On the show, we discuss all things that help startups survive, grow, and prosper: from managing cash to selling to raising investment dollars and more. Topics vary greatly but are almost always associated with what it takes to start, run, and grow a young technology company. Hosted by Tim Bates and produced by the Exponential Group in association with the MESA organization.

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Episodes

  1. Alternative Sources of Capital: Revenue-Based Financing

    On the Exponential podcast, we are always on the hunt for alternative sources of capital to talk about and discuss and expose to our audience because only a tiny fraction of startups – 1%– secure the two most talked about sources of funding – Venture and Angel Capital. And in this podcast, we are...

  2. Alternative Source of Capital - A discussion with Pat Dillon about The SBIR and STTR programs

    In the newest Exponential Podcast, we discuss an alternative source of capital with Pat Dillion who is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of MNSBIR and its services to startups and small businesses in Minnesota. MNSBIR provides mentoring and coaching; training and education…

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  3. A Framework for Identifying a First Market to Attack for Pre and Early Revenue Companies

    As an entrepreneur and startup founder, you have to start selling your offering somewhere! For many, unless they pick the right market and the right people to engage with, they won't be able to generate the traction needed to either attract outside capital or produce it on their own to finance...

  4. Alternative sources of capital - the patent as a funding resource

    As important a resource as VC and angel investors are, …this type of startup financing is accessible to a very small population of entrepreneurs. Only about 0.05% of startups raise venture money or .91% of young companies raise angel money. Or putting it another way, ONLY 1 out of 100 startups…

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  5. The MESA Growth Story

    What does it take to startup and build a company designed to help startups? In this edition of the Exponential Podcast, we'll hear that story, the growth story of the MESA Group, a firm founded in the middle of the great recession to help nurture and grow software startups in Minnesota and do so…

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  6. The Selling Framework for Startup Founders

    Given that ninety-eight percent of startups never raise venture or angel money, raises the question -- why do so many entrepreneurs put off making sales, a critical source of capital, a core part of their daily ritual? In this podcast, we'll discuss with two highly seasoned tech sales…

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  7. The Cash Management Framework for Startups: Strategies for managing a startup's cash.

    A cash crisis is the number two killer of startups with one out of three startup failures attributed to it. Do you know what to do cash wise to keep from crashing in a cash crisis and becoming one of these statistics? In this podcast, we'll discuss with two highly respected and season tech CFOs…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Exponential podcast is for entrepreneurs, investors, and those looking to build or help build the next great technology company. On the show, we discuss all things that help startups survive, grow, and prosper: from managing cash to selling to raising investment dollars and more. Topics vary greatly but are almost always associated with what it takes to start, run, and grow a young technology company. Hosted by Tim Bates and produced by the Exponential Group in association with the MESA organization.

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The Exponential podcast is for entrepreneurs, investors, and those looking to build or help build the next great technology company. On the show, we discuss all things that help startups survive, grow, and prosper: from managing cash to selling to raising investment dollars and more. Topics vary...

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The Exponential Podcast is created and hosted by Tim Bates.
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