Building a Track Record as a Junior VC, Using the Superhuman PMF Survey with GPT-3, and Overcoming a “Pipeline Problem”

A newsletter for founders & friends (47th edition)

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Welcome to the 47th 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 3,200+ people each week.

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Overcoming a “Pipeline Problem”

Melia Russell @meliarobin

.@lightspeedvp made a remarkable five female hires on its investing team, including one in Europe and one in Israel, showing that a "pipeline problem" isn't so hard to overcome. They are @seisler1, @lisabethhan, @Syd_Lykes, @JulieKainz, and Yonit Wiseman.

🥈Building a Track Record as a Junior VC

Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 @nic_detommaso

Even as a junior VC it’s important to start building a track record. AND you don’t have to be a check writer to be able to evaluate your picking skills. Here’s a list of what you should be tracking 🧵

🥉 Using the Superhuman PMF Survey with GPT-3

Daniel Doyon @deadly_onion

We just fired up the @Superhuman PMF survey for the 2nd time in @readwise history. Except this time I used GPT-3 as my assistant and the results were 🤯 Here's my process in case you're interested.

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Resources

• 10 market research tools

• A guide on internal documentation for startups

• How to activate your investor network

• Building financial literacy muscle as a founder

• Strategy lessons from a multi-million dollar revenue business

• A thread on how to gain traction

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Future of Work Reads

• Is Our Digital Future At Risk Because Of The Gen Z Skills Gap? (Forbes)

• Future of work: Back to the office (Reuters)

• Five Predictions For The Future Of Work: A Captivating Employee Experience (Forbes)

• Does ChatGPT Mean Robots Are Coming For the Skilled Jobs? (NYT)

• This new study makes the case that you shouldn’t be at work today (Fast Company)

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The World of VITALIZE

• VITALIZE portfolio company, MarginEdge, has recently raised $45M for their Series C funding!

• Jamie Snedden, Co-Founder & CEO of VITALIZE portfolio company Groundfloor, has been featured on Newsy

• The VITALIZE Podcast has been listed as a Top Podcast for VC & Angel Investors by VC Stack

• This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had Gale Wilkinson, Founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, take a deep dive into how she conducts founder calls.

  • Watch on YouTube

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

• Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

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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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