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Consumer Social Benchmarks, Reducing Churn, and Investor Update Essentials
A newsletter for founders & friends (59th edition)
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Welcome to the 59th 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 3,300+ people each week.
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Top 3 Tweets
š„ Consumer Social Benchmarks
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How do you know if a social app will be a "hit?"
Predicting what goes mainstream - and what stalls out - might seem random.
But after years of leading growth @Snap & investing in consumer social at @a16z, I've found early signs of huge products š
— Bryan Kim (@kirbyman01)
Mar 3, 2023
š„ Reducing Churn
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The kind of graph you WANT to go down and to the right šš
Last few months been focusing less on adding big product features, and more on understanding and reducing churn...
All the little tweaks have added up! š
(for our B2C SaaS)
— Marie Ng š¦ (@threehourcoffee)
Mar 9, 2023
š„Investor Update Essentials
Frustrating to read an investor update & have no idea how the company is actually doing.
I want to see:
1) revenue, burn, cash on hand
2) other KPI's / priorities (margin/cac etc) relative to previous periods & a score
3) successes (new logos)/failures (churn)
4) how we can help— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi)
Mar 8, 2023
Resourcesļ»æ
34 places to launch your startup
9 things to change for a successful exit
Mistakes and lessons after hitting $3M in ARR
10 precautions to consider on 3PL for brands
How to avoid āThe Valuation Trapā
Future of Work Reads
What Will Make Hybrid Work Stick? (NYT)
5 ways to keep your company on track after demoralizing layoffs (Fast Company)
Full-time office work is ādeadā: 3 labor experts weigh in on the future of remote work (CNBC)
Did Me Too change the workplace for Gen Z? (BBC)
These are some of the surprising benefits of a four day working week (WEF)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company Virtual Sapiens has recently launched their new Virtual Presence Training Certificate program for teams
Groundfloor, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is featured in Forbes
Gale Wilkinson, Managing Partner of VITALIZE, will be at SXSW this weekend
VITALIZE portfolio company Lunch is hiring a Software Development Engineer II in LA
Please email Caroline to learn more - [email protected]
Open jobs at VITALIZE portfolio companies
Written byĀ Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing atĀ VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and nearly 425+ memberĀ angel investing community for everyoneĀ investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders in the work revolution.Ā Find us onĀ Twitter,Ā LinkedIn, andĀ YouTube.
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