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Early Pitching Success, Pivot Lessons, and Founder's Toolkit
A newsletter for founders & friends
Gale Wilkinson
September 25, 2024
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Welcome to the 106th edition of Re:VITALIZE, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus our favorite future of work reads, going out to 3,300+ people each week. Forward to a friend who may want to subscribe.
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🥇 Pitch Early, Pitch Often
One lesson I learned the hard way as a founder is that most investors make-up their minds in the first couple of minutes of a pitch. You can spend endless follow up meetings trying to convince them but it’s often an uphill battle. Much easier to fill the top of the funnel with… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jenny Fielding (@jefielding)
1:19 AM • Sep 25, 2024
🥈 Startup Ideas Get Tested
You can have a great startup idea, but a great startup idea is like having a great plan for a fistfight.
The moment the idea actually touches customers is like the moment you get punched in the face.
What matters is what you do at that moment, not the plan.
— Garry Tan (@garrytan)
6:49 PM • Sep 24, 2024
🥉 A CEO’s Goal
Your goal as CEO is to build a team that runs your entire company better than you.
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez)
4:25 PM • Aug 6, 2024
Founder Resources
Crowdsourced: Consumer pre-seed investors
How to recover from a failed product launch
Paul Graham one-pager on how to start a startup
Ready-to-use templates from professionals: product roadmaps, marketing strategies, implementation processes, etc.
What doesn’t work when pivoting
Future of Work Reads
2 big future-of-work trends are about to collide (Fast Company)
Millennials facing ageism (Business Insider)
Why women still have a long way to go for workplace equality (Yahoo!Finance)
Is AI In The Workplace A Superhero Or Supervillain For Diversity, Equity And Inclusion? (Forbes)
Employee Well-Being Is Back to Pre-Covid Lows (Inc.)
Hybrid Work Reigns Supreme, Despite Leadership Doubts (SHRM)
The World of VITALIZE
Genomenon (Fund I) received the FastTrack award for its high growth as a business at the a2Tech360 event
Zingtree (Fund I) achieved recognition on G2 in their Fall report across eight categories
Betterleave (Fund II) founder Cara McCarty Abbott was on the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show
SquarePeg (Fund II) partners with Think Research
AIRIA (VITALIZE Angels) has been selected for US Air Force Grant to enhance sustainable space management & safety for US campuses & bases
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.