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Welcome to the 89th 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

🥇 More Founders, More Solutions

🥈 Unlocking SAFE Fundraising

🥉Re-framing Founder-Led Sales

Founder Resources

• Crowdsourced: Big mistakes to avoid at the early stage of a startup

• 20 nuggets of sales wisdom from startup sales experience

• How to describe your business as an equation

• A thread of ideas that flopped and then soared a decade later

• Startups are Experiments

• Turning a $1M marketing blunder into triumph organically

• How to Take Bigger, Bolder Product Bets — Lessons from Slack’s Chief Product Officer

• GPT wrapper startups face closure after OpenAI's App Store announcement

Future of Work Reads

• Is AI impacting your job? Your salary might actually rise, top talent CEO says (CNBC)

• Closing gender gaps in the private sector benefits over 850,000 women (WEF)

• The Biggest Winners and Losers From the Work-From-Home Revolution (WSJ)

• Do You Need an External Talent Cloud? (HBR)

• Let’s Think Bigger About The Future Of Freelancing (Forbes)

• The ultimate guide to what’s in and what’s out for workers in 2024 (Fast Company)

• D.E.I. Goes Quiet (NYT)

The World of VITALIZE

• Placer, a VITALIZE portfolio company, has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in 2024 by both Glassdoor and Built In

• VITALIZE portfolio company Lectrium announces the integration of its EV Savings Badge with Dealer.com

• Rachel Cossar, CEO of VITALIZE portfolio company Virtual Sapiens was featured on Benefit News

• CloudEagle, a VITALIZE portfolio company, received 8 badges and has been included across 24 reports in the G2 Winter 2024 Quarterly Report

• VITALIZE portfolio company Leadsales was chosen by KPMG as one of the most innovative startups in Mexico and Colombia in the Global Tech Innovator 2023 competition

• Going Public, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is producing season 2 of its series with Baron Davis and Floyd Mayweather in Vegas

• Beatriz Acevedo, CEO of VITALIZE portfolio company Suma Wealth, was on Jefa Mode Live by Latinas in Tech

• VITALIZE portfolio company MarginEdge ranked #7 on Glassdoor's 2024 Best Places to Work: Small-Midsize Companies list

• Upwards, a VITALIZE portfolio company, has launched a partnership with Park City Municipal

• VITALIZE portfolio company SquarePeg was featured in The Hour

• Aunt Flow, a VITALIZE portfolio company, partners with Haddon Heights, as featured on The Philadelphia Inquirer

• VITALIZE portfolio company Genomenon released Mastermind 3.0 with the clinical exome fully curated at the gene level

• Balloon, a VITALIZE portfolio company, has been named a finalist for the "Innovation Award" at the World 50 I&D Impact Awards 2024

• 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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