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Bias to Action, Evaluating Your Company's Pitch, & Advice to Reconsider
A newsletter for founders & friends
Gale Wilkinson
May 03, 2024
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Welcome to the 97th 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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🥇 Bias to Action
The most important business advice remains, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast)
May 3, 2024
🥈 Evaluating Your Company’s Pitch
In a VC interview when you’re asked to pitch a startup, here's what's being evaluated:
1. What are the key drivers/KPIs you identify & evaluate?
2. How do you reason logically & build conviction?
3. How do you communicate this reasoning clearly & persuasively?
4. Do you have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 (@nic_detommaso)
Apr 16, 2024
🥉 Advice to Reconsider
I built and sold for $1.3 billion to Adobe, and along the way, I received plenty of advice that turned out to be entirely off the mark. Here's a look at some of the most glaring misdirections:
1. "As CEO, focus on executive business tasks." This couldn't… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Emery Wells (@emerywells)
Apr 25, 2024
Founder Resources
Crowdsourced: How founders got their first paying customers
Hiring your ideal operator
Key questions to answer in your product pitch
M13’s interactive fundraising deck + best practices to implement
How Customer Acquisition Fuels Greater Growth
25 bite-size early-stage sales lessons/learnings
The Wartime CEO: 9 Leadership Principles for Strong Startups
Growth is not linear: on the path to $225k MRR
Future of Work Reads
5 Strategies for Improving Mental Health at Work (HBR)
HR Adopts AI (SHRM)
Neurodiversity inclusion starts with the job interview (Fast Company)
Let’s Help Big Corporates Trust The Freelance Revolution (Forbes)
Email isn’t just annoying to Gen Z workers—it’s stressing them out (CNBC)
Diversity Goals Are Disappearing From Companies’ Annual Reports (WSJ)
How the ‘NO, NO’ Matrix can help professionals plan for success (WEF)
The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market (NFX)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company CloudEagle partners with Apollo and with Brex
Davyeon Ross, co-founder of VITALIZE portfolio company ShotTracker, was on the FUTRSPRT podcast and the Tech of Sports podcast
VITALIZE portfolio company MarginEdge was at the Craft Brewers Association Conference and Brew Expo
Going Public, a VITALIZE portfolio company, just released the Going Public Season 2 trailer
Open jobs at VITALIZE portfolio companies
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