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Welcome to the 92nd 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.

Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Essential Early-Stage Sales Advice

🥈 Qualities of Fast-Growing Startups

🥉 Avoiding the Virality Trap

Founder Resources

• Crowdsourced: best pre-seed consumer funds

• OpenAI’s $11.3B pitch deck

• Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment

• 3 key competitive advantages for early-stage startups

• Founder to founder fundraising advice

• A mega thread on 23 years of startup lessons

• What It’s Like To Raise A Seed Round In 2024

• Advice on pre-seed pitch approach

• 5 mistakes to avoid when launching your startup

• Reddit marketing growth hack

Future of Work Reads

• Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. (CNBC)

• AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune. (WSJ)

• The future of work depends on understanding Gen Alpha now (Fast Company)

• People Are Comfortable Discussing Mental Health at Work—Just Not Their Own (Time)

• CEOs Share 3 Fundamental Principles of Rethinking Workplace Norms (Inc.)

• Why clear job descriptions matter for gender equality (WEF)

• Financial Tips For Freelancers Navigating The Gig Economy (Forbes)

The World of VITALIZE

• VITALIZE portfolio company CloudEagle partners with LastPass and OpsGenie

• VITALIZE portfolio company Upwards just closed a successful $21M in Series B Funding, as featured on Business Wire

• Aunt Flow, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is hiring for a Sr. Growth Marketing Associate

• 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.

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