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Welcome to the 98th 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. We hope you have a wonderful and reflective holiday weekend!

Top 4 Tweets

🥇 Startup Growth Ideas

🥈 $1.4M Seed Round Raise

🥉 Benchmark Data on US VC Startups

🥉 Unicorns Aren’t Born

Founder Resources

• Crowdsourced: Best books or resources on hiring and team building

• How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have

• A thread on why product-focused founders stand out

• A Founder’s Guide to Hiring Lawyers at Every Stage of Your Startup

• The benefits of a comprehensive investor approach

• How to ACTUALLY bootstrap a startup

• How, why, and when to pivot

Future of Work Reads

• 39% of Americans do some kind of gig work. Why aren’t more universities teaching it? (Fast Company)

• 81% of young people say a 4-day workweek would boost productivity, new CNBC/Generation Lab survey reports (CNBC)

• Age diversity will define the workforce of the future. Here’s why (WEF)

• How AI Has Already Begun to Change These Workers’ Jobs (WSJ)

• Five essential components to navigate the future of work (Gartner)

• Mental Health, HR and the Workplace (SHRM)

• The Gender Pay Gap Is Even Bigger for Freelancers, New Survey Shows (Yahoo!Finance)

• The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market (NFX)

The World of VITALIZE

• VITALIZE portfolio company CloudEagle was featured in Analytics India Magazine

• Genomenon, a VITALIZE portfolio company, announced its acquisition of the Clinical Knowledgebase (CKB) from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX)

• VITALIZE portfolio company Elevate K-12 was ranked 66th on TIME's inaugural list of the World's 250 Top EdTech Startups

• VITALIZE portfolio company Deft launched its new product feature Deft Imagine

• Rachel Cossar, CEO of VITALIZE portfolio company Virtual Sapiens, was on the Tech Sales Insights podcast with Randy Seidl

• VITALIZE Partners Gale Wilkinson and Caroline Casson both earned a spot on Insider's Seed 40 list

• 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.