75-Question Checklist For Investors, Smart Metrics and Growth Models, and the Marathon of Building Great Companies

A newsletter for founders & friends (57th edition)

Feb 24, 2023

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Welcome to the 57th 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, going out to 3,300+ people each week.

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🥇 75-Question Checklist For Investors

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Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez

Buffett. Graham. Dalio. Horowitz. These legendary investors all used checklists before making investments. Here were the 75 most common questions to build conviction in an investment:

🥈 Smart Metrics and Growth Models

Ali Abouelatta @abouelatta_ali

The more A/B tests we run at Duolingo, the smarter we get about our metrics and growth models. Here is how we think about DAUs & “movable” metrics 👇

🥉 The Marathon of Building Great Companies

cathy gao 🙋🏻‍♀️ @cgao

Reminder that great companies take a long time to build. Time to exit: Procore - 17 years Paycom - 16 years DocuSign - 15 years RingCentral - 14 years Atlassian - 13 years Building companies is an endurance sport

Resources

Thoughts on the current market
$10+ MILLION impact of product notifications
How to go from $0 to a $2M business
A list of community builders for startup and VC events
Tactical advice for turning customers into advocates
5 elements in vertical SaaS that should never be overlooked

Future of Work Reads

Layoffs don’t have to be so cruel. Here’s how Big Tech can do better (Fast Company)
What CEOs Are Getting Wrong About the Future of Work—and How to Make It Right (WSJ)
A Digital Talent Hub Can Make Your Sales Team More Agile (HBR)
The myth of the ‘compassionate layoff’ (BBC)
The remote work conundrum: Employees want it, but is it good for them? (MSN)

The World of VITALIZE

VITALIZE portfolio company Going Public, announced a new format for their series where viewers globally can click to invest while they watch
Bo Davis, the founder of VITALIZE portfolio company Margin Edge, was on the 10 Minute Entrepreneur podcast
VITALIZE portfolio company Balloon is featured in Howard Tullman’s latest Inc. article
Last week we launched Angel Insights, our weekly newsletter teaching you the ins and outs of angel investing.
VITALIZE portfolio company Cyber Pop-up is hiring a Lead Full Stack Engineer
- Please email Caroline to learn more - caroline@vitalize.vc
Open jobs at VITALIZE portfolio companies

Written by Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and nearly 425+ 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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