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Elevating Your Pitch, Team Mindset Impact, & Fundraising Wisdom
A newsletter for founders & friends
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Welcome to the 101st 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
🥇 Storyboard to Success
a pitch deck is just a storyboard for why your company will be generational
— Neal Khosla (@nealkhosla)
7:04 PM • Aug 5, 2024
🥈 The Maturation of a Founder
First time founder:
- VC reached out, they are lining up to invest in us
- takes VC meetings as they come
- spends a ton of time on fundraise
- enjoys fundraise conversationsSecond time founder:
- VC reach out means nothing, it's their job
- only takes meetings when actually… x.com/i/web/status/1…— Rohit Mittal (@rohitdotmittal)
10:15 PM • Jul 30, 2024
🥉 Efficiency Over Effort
Reminder that we all don’t have to hard-mode everything. You can make traction step by step in a reasonable and methodical way. Willpower is a finite resource.
— Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo)
7:54 PM • Jul 30, 2024
Founder Resources
Crowd-sourced: highly recommended founder/CEO coaches
Building loyalty through founder-led customer support
The essential focus for startup success
Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over Again
Why founders should start ditching the fancy slide deck
How a team mindset affect startup success
Future of Work Reads
How Customer Acquisition Fuels Greater Growth (Gartner)
How AI Is Redesigning, Not Replacing, HR and Other Jobs (SHRM)
Merit, Excellence and Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On (WSJ)
Be real: Authentic leadership in future-ready businesses (WEF)
What leaders can do to fix a ‘zombie organization’ (Fast Company)
The Return-to-Office Movement Has Fizzled in 2024 (Inc.)
Why the gender pay gap has barely budged in decades, according to new research (CNBC)
The World of VITALIZE
Alembic (Fund I) welcomed its new Chief Technology Officer
Genomenon (Fund I) released its latest industry trends report
MarginEdge (Fund I) has been named one of DCA Live's Red Hot Companies for 2024
CloudEagle (Fund II) was recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms
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.