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$100M Lessons, Sustainable and Scalable Competitive Advantages, and Startup vs. Incumbent Value
A newsletter for founders & friends (40th edition)
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Welcome to the 40th edition of Re:VITALIZE, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus cool things weāre seeing in the future of work, going out to 3,000+ people each week.
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š„ $100M Lessons
First, I bootstrapped a CPG brand from 0 to $100M+.
Then, I became a VC deploying millions of my own capital.
Now, Iām exploring funding models for building sustainably in web3.
Through it all, Iāve learned what really matters:
ā Jaime Schmidt (@jaimeschmidt)
11:49 PM ā¢ Oct 15, 2022
š„ Sustainable and Scalable Competitive Advantages
Our exhaustive list of moats (or what we call āsustainable and scalable competitive advantagesā) at @EqualVentures
ā Rick Zullo (@Rick_Zullo)
10:17 AM ā¢ Oct 20, 2022
š„ Startup vs. Incumbent Value
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35 impactful questions managers should ask themselves regularly
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The journey to 250K newsletter subscribers
Future of Work Reads
Rapidly Switching Jobs For More Money, Businesses Hoarding Talent And Cutting The Quiet Quitters May Be The Future Of Work (Forbes)
Nine remote working trends to look out for in 2022 and 2023 (Unleash)
The Office of the Future Is Greener, More Social, and Might Even Include Childcare (Time)
This is how you can prepare to work in the metaverse (Fast Company)
How does Gen Z see its place in the working world? With trepidation (McKinsey)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company The Mom Project launched a new custom research report: "Unlocking the Potential of Parents in the Contingent Workforce.ā
Elevate K-12 is hiring salespeople in Chicago
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Enklu is hiring part-time event staff in Chicago for augmented reality exhibits
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This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had Rachel Cossar, Co-Founder and CEO at VITALIZE portfolio company Virtual Sapiens, a machine learning SaaS platform leveraging AI to help client-facing professionals measurably improve their comfort and confidence in order to master communication skills over video.
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Written by Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and nearly 400+ member angel investing community for everyone investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders in the work revolution. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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