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Sharing a Compelling Deck, B2B Marketplace Must-Haves, & Pivoting Strategies
A newsletter for founders & friends
Gale Wilkinson
April 21, 2024
Hey 👋🏽
Welcome to the 96th 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
I closed about 90% of the angels I talked to
The secret is underwhelming: I shared my deck in advance and only took calls with angels who were super excited
Your time as a founder is too valuable to waste on low probability calls
— Niels Hoven (@NielsHoven)
12:27 AM • Apr 13, 2024
🥈 B2B Marketplace Must-Haves
My reductive list of "must haves" for B2B marketplaces:
1. High frag of supply or demand (ideally both)
2. Core discovery challenge (or other info arb) solved with 1st party data.
3. ~$100B+ GMV TAM or ~$10B+ rev TAM
4. Compelling wedge solution to break status quo behavior.
— Alex Taussig (@ataussig)
6:48 PM • Apr 17, 2024
🥉 Pivoting Strategies
At my first startup, it took us 15 months and multiple pivots to find our PMF and ship a good v1 product. If we hadn't pivoted, we would have died.
3 mistakes we made 👇
1) Being too far ahead of the customer's current problems.
Our assumption: Everyone would be moving to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jyoti Bansal (@jyotibansalsf)
2:10 PM • Apr 17, 2024
Founder Resources
Crowdsourced: Conference attendance strategy & B2C startup conferences to consider
A thread with the top AI investors in New York
When should a startup hire its first recruiter
How much savings do you need to leave your job and launch a company
Future of Work Reads
How to be a better leader in the age of AI (Fast Company)
60% of people who work multiple hourly jobs are women: ‘They will do what they have to do’ (CNBC)
The Future Of Work: Embracing AI In The Pursuit Of Global Growth (Forbes)
From 'Quit-Tok' to proximity bias, here are 11 buzzwords from the world of hybrid work (WEF)
How to Help Workers with Child Care Struggles (SHRM)
Research: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy (HBR)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company CloudEagle partners with Outplay
Beatriz Acevedo, founder of VITALIZE portfolio company Suma, was on the Venture Everywhere podcast
VITALIZE portfolio company Placer launched its most recent product feature
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.