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Avoiding Paralysis, Message Clarity, & Red Flags
A newsletter for founders & friends
Gale Wilkinson
April 13, 2024
Hey 👋🏽
Welcome to the 95th 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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🥇 Beyond Arbitrary Numbers
Too often, founders share an arbitrary number for how much money they need to raise.
Get specific.
Rationalize what you think you'll need to get from point A to B with some room for contingency.
If you raise more, great, investors love what you're working on.
— Marge Ntambi (@margentambi)
Apr 9, 2024
🥈 Avoiding Paralysis
One of the biggest mistakes an entrepreneur can make early on is getting lost in paralysis.
Some people get stuck in ideas. They jump from idea to idea, holding out until they land on the perfect one. But they never actually build anything.
Other people get stuck in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— immad (@immad)
Apr 10, 2024
🥈 Four Bad Habits That Degrade Message Clarity
Companies kill their own messaging over time.
4 bad habits seep in as they grow.
Here's the breakdown:
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0)
Mar 25, 2024
🥉 Red Flags For VCs
List of immediate red flags for VCs:
- True founder not having real ownership
- Mgmt changes early on
- Slow growth w/ good funding already
- Significantly high burn rate
- Previous investors not re-investing (has exceptions)What else do you look for? 🚩
— Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 (@nic_detommaso)
Apr 8, 2024
Founder Resources
Understanding what VCs really want
10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success
Why competitors' success should fuel your fire
A thread on what a structured term sheet looks like
Future of Work Reads
The Ultimate Guide to Implementing AI in Your HR Organization (Gartner)
The Big Work Lie: Being Indispensable Will Save Your Job (WSJ)
The six drivers of employee health every employer should know (WEF)
These are the 10 top-paying U.S. cities where women outearn men (CNBC)
What Could A Recession Mean For The Gig Economy? (Forbes)
An anthropologist explains what millennials and Gen Z really think about sharing personal opinions at work (Fast Company)
The Worst Part of a Wall Street Career May Be Coming to an End (NYT)
What Needs to Change About DEI — and What Doesn’t (HBR)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company Groundfloor opened its fourth location in Los Angeles
WorkMade, a VITALIZE portfolio company, released a new product update
VITALIZE portfolio company CloudEagle has been recognized across multiple categories in the latest G2 Spring 2024 Reports
Leadsales, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is on Forbes’ Top 30 Most Promising Startups list
Open jobs at VITALIZE portfolio companies
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.