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$100B Founder Lessons, B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook, & Early Startup Traction Signs
A newsletter for founders & friends
Gale Wilkinson
September 19, 2024
Hey 👋
Welcome to the 105th edition of Re:VITALIZE, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus our favorite future of work reads, going out to 3,400+ people each week. Forward to a friend who may want to subscribe.
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🥇 Raising A Seed Round 101
Raising a seed round 101
1. How much should you raise?
A simple formula is to aim for a 24- to 36-month runway, building in a 25% buffer.Why 24 to 36 months? Generally, this is the right amount of time because it tends to be about how long it takes to hit product-market fit… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan)
7:39 PM • Sep 17, 2024
🥈 $100B Founder Lessons
WhatsApp is a behemoth
— 2.5 Billion Daily Active Users
— $100B Enterprise Value
— Meta’s third-largest bizWith ~ 100 full time employees
Here’s how they did it + 3 lessons for all founders 👇
— adriane schwager (@aschwags3)
7:07 PM • Sep 17, 2024
🥉 On Rebuilding Confidence
Met a founder today who was struggling to rebuild confidence after a past "failure" (that ended up getting him into YC but I digress). He was terrified he'd make the wrong decision and fail again, and he was paralyzed by it. His poor cofounder.
The thing about confidence is that… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Amy Buechler (@amybue)
4:31 AM • Sep 18, 2024
Founder Resources
Crowdsourced: reasons why most startups fail
Pre-seed women founders to connect with
30 Lessons from 10 years of B2B SaaS marketing
44 slides on how to raise Pre-Seed & Seed
Why you should consider acquiring a business
Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them
Future of Work Reads
What 570 Experts Predict the Future of Work Will Look Like (HBR)
5 Ways To Overcome Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (DEI) Challenges (Forbes)
The Rise of the Gig Economy: How Contract Staffing is Shaping the Future of Work (SHRM)
Soft skills are dead—long live ‘skills’ (Fast Company)
Why young people worldwide want and need ‘meaningful work’ (WEF)
The World of VITALIZE
Elevate K-12 (Fund I) welcomes Piyush Lumba as its new Chief Executive Officer
Upwave (Fund I) announced its partnership with The Trade Desk
Upwards (Fund I) CEO and Co-Founder Jessica Chang was with Kristin Peck on the On Purpose podcast
The Mom Project (Fund I) onboards Tricia House as its new Chief Technology and Product Officer
Going Public (SPV) Episode 2 with Floyd Mayweather is now streaming
VITALIZE Partner Caroline Casson was on the Abstracts by Abstract podcast
Written by the team at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and 500+ member angel investing community for everyone, investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders innovating in WorkTech. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.