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Getting Your First 1,000 Customers, Recruiting Women to Join Your Company, and Subreddits for Million-Dollar Business Ideas
A newsletter for founders & friends (32nd edition)
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Welcome to the 32nd edition of Re:VITALIZE, a newsletter with tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus cool things we’re seeing in the future of work.
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🥇 Getting Your First 1,000 Customers
How did we get our first 1,000 customers?
By doing things that don't scale, as advised by @ycombinator 🤹♀️🧵— Michelle (@michwirantono)
4:00 AM • Aug 25, 2022
🥈 Recruiting Senior Women Leaders to Join Your Company
In the last 10 years I have hired over 300 people.
I have found that it's WAY HARDER to recruit senior women leaders, even as a female CEO.
Here’s my playbook for how to get great senior women to join your company:
— Jaleh Rezaei (@jalehr)
4:45 PM • Aug 18, 2022
🥉 Subreddits for Million-Dollar Business Ideas
I started a business that has generated almost $10M in revenue.
And I got the idea from Reddit.
But only a few people know the power of Reddit to fuel entrepreneurship.
Here are 9 under-the-radar subreddits that will help you build a million dollar business:
Thread 🧵👇
— Neel Parekh (@NeelBParekh)
4:59 PM • Aug 18, 2022
Resources
12 systems for building multi-million dollar businesses
Weird SaaS pricing models
5 ways Loom wows new users
A guide to PLG timing
The keys to success for USV
Questions to ask on a reference call
Future of Work Reads
There's no going back for office workers (Axios)
The metaverse is replacing the office. Meet the gamified workforce of the future (Fortune)
Next in the Future of Work: Unleashing Human Potential (SAP)
Project Management In The Future Of Work (Forbes)
Workers are gaining the upper hand in the WFH war (Fortune)
The World of VITALIZE
This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had Shruti Gandhi (@atShruti), founder and General Partner of Array Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on solving impactful problems in the world leveraging revolutionary technology.
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Yesterday, we had our August pitches for VITALIZE Angels and you can view the companies and watch the recordings after joining here
Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies
Written by Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and nearly 400-member angel investing community for everyone investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders in the work revolution. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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