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Startup Viability, Distribution, & Post-Funding Challenges
A newsletter for founders & friends
Gale Wilkinson
June 26, 2023
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Welcome to the 73rd 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
🥇 Navigating Post-Funding Challenges
IMO one of the most dangerous times in a startup’s life cycle is right after a 1st-time founder has closed closed a healthy preseed/seed round. Bc after the high of the win wears off, a few things happen:
— Quinn Wang, MD (@killa_kwinn)
5:39 PM • Jun 21, 2023
🥈 Product-Market Fit And Startup Viability
A startup is an experiment.
It becomes viable when it achieves product-market fit.
It becomes a business when it achieves profitability.
It becomes a valuable business when it grows profits and cash flows sustainably year on year.
Simple. Let’s not complicate things.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Rajesh Sawhney 🇮🇳 (@rajeshsawhney)
4:06 PM • Jun 15, 2023
🥉 5 Pillars Of Startup Distribution
5 pillars of startup distribution:
- brand
- marketing
- sales
- storytelling
- community— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki)
12:17 PM • Jun 18, 2023
Founder Resources
Why fundraising is easier for founders who angel invest
Updates in Tech: on growing regulatory pressures and emerging new laws
How two founders approach building ethical AI startups in health care
5 tips to building the perfect pitch
Crowdsourced: identifying market gaps
Future of Work Reads
Attracting And Retaining Gen-Z Through Diversity And Inclusion (Forbes)
How Should Gig Workers Be Classified? (NYT)
The quiet guilt of self-employment (BBC)
The Great Resignation still isn’t over (Fast Company)
How AI Can Help Stressed-Out Managers Be Better Coaches (HBR)
5 things men can do to help women be more successful at work, from a Yale lecturer (CNBC)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company The Mom Project was featured on The Holding Co.’s latest chapter
Lectrium, a VITALIZE portfolio company, joined forces with DIMO
Monet Wilson, community manager of VITALIZE portfolio company Groundfloor, was on Sofar’s This Must Be the Space
VITALIZE portfolio company CloudEagle partners with Confluence
MarginEdge, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is in The Washington Post’s 2023 Top Workplaces in the DC area for the third year in a row
Open jobs at VITALIZE portfolio companies
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