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Startup survival during an economic crisis — tips, tactics and cashflow

There’s no doubt we’re in unprecedented times, and likely at the beginning of a long journey back to normal — whatever the new ’normal’…

9 min readApr 17, 2020

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Startup survival during an economic crisis — tips, tactics and cashflow

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Joe White
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Entrepreneur First

10x beer glass — and why this is one of the most important things to understand early as a founder

There’s a lot of talk about building something that’s 10x better in order to create a successful startup. But in my experience of working…

4 min readJan 17, 2020

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10x beer glass — and why this is one of the most important things to understand early as a founder

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Joe White
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Entrepreneur First

Resilience, recovery time, mistakes and denial — how to be a better founder

Every founder journey is long and complex. Many also start with young founders, inexperienced operators and managers, and play out over a…

5 min readDec 21, 2019

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Resilience, recovery time, mistakes and denial — how to be a better founder

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Joe White
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Entrepreneur First

How and when to raise venture capital from Silicon Valley — for European and Asian startups

For most parts of the world US VC is the holy grail of venture capital — the best VCs, the best entrepreneurs, limitless capital and…

15 min readAug 1, 2019

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How and when to raise venture capital from Silicon Valley — for European and Asian startups

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Why your personality may kill your company — advice to founders on using psychometrics to support…

When you really start scaling your company, you have to make the shift from being 100% innovation led and fighting for your life at every…

6 min readJan 17, 2019

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Why your personality may kill your company — advice to founders on using psychometrics to support…

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Joe White
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Entrepreneur First

Lessons from 100 seed rounds — the Bull case and the Bear case

I can’t believe I’ve never used this technique before — the bull and the bear case is such a simple trick that for me solves so many…

5 min readDec 13, 2018

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Lessons from 100 seed rounds — the Bull case and the Bear case

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Joe White
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Entrepreneur First

Talented Meanderers vs Committed Discoverers — the art of pre-seed investing

I was extremely excited last week that Portify (an Entrepreneur First company from our 8th London cohort, and one that I’ve mentored now…

5 min readNov 19, 2018

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Talented Meanderers vs Committed Discoverers — the art of pre-seed investing

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Joe White
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Entrepreneur First

Valuation lessons from 100 seed rounds

Entrepreneur First had it’s 10th European demo day last month, welcoming in another 24 deep tech companies, this time including those…

5 min readNov 7, 2018

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Valuation lessons from 100 seed rounds

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Joe White

Joe White

General Partner Entrepreneur First (joinef.com), Co-Chair GBXglobal.org, co-founder Moonfruit.com. Entrepreneur, investor, economist, father and husband. MBE.

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