Choosing Your Valuation, The Bright Spots of VC and Startups Right Now, Advice and Reminders for Raising Funding

A newsletter for founders & friends (42nd edition)

Nov 04, 2022

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Welcome to the 42nd 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 3,000+ people each week.

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Choosing Your Valuation

Mike MacCombie 💬 @MikeMacCombie

What valuation should you raise your round at? 4 variables you need to force-rank for your raise: -Valuation -Round size -Speed -Quality of cap table The answer depends on what your company needs most. A tale of 4 startups...👇

🥈 The Bright Spots of VC and Startups Right Now

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Kate Clark @KateClarkTweets

There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the venture capital, startups space right now. What are the bright spots? Besides generative AI. Curious!

🥉 Advice and Reminders for Raising Funding

Rick Zullo @Rick_Zullo

1) The challenge of raising money at too high of a valuation (especially when amount isn’t material@to that investor) isn’t that you might have to take a down round, it’s that you are a ZERO Very few investors willing to come in on down round structures right now

Resources

The best biographies about women in business
The 5-hour rule used by high-achievers
How Capital (formerly Party Round) is making their mark
The best pitch deck examples
A thread roundup of everything about building a startup
How to avoid failure at a startup

Future of Work Reads

Beyond Dashboards: The Future Of Analytics And Business Intelligence? (Forbes)
How our startup made it through 2 recessions without relying on layoffs (TechCrunch)
The rise of the 'chief remote officer' (BBC)
14 Ways For Leaders To Foster A Culture Of Curiosity And Innovation (Forbes)
Does Remote Work Hurt Wellbeing and Work-Life Balance? (Forbes)

The World of VITALIZE

Suma Wealth, a VITALIZE portfolio company, recently celebrated its 2nd year anniversary, in creating products and services that can bridge the wealth gap
Genomenon, a VITALIZE portfolio company, made it to Purpose Jobs' list of 2023 Best Places to Work in the Midwest because of their modern technology, flexibility, exceptional leadership and passionate team
SquarePeg is looking for CTO & Sales mentors
Do you know of a company that is venture-backed, hiring 6+ people, and has an HR team of 0-5 people? SquarePeg is offering an invite-only pilot (complimentary) in exchange for a product interview. Email Caroline (caroline@vitalize.vc) if you're interested!
Wondering what goes in your data room? We got you! Here are the top three items we look for at VITALIZE as well as a number of other materials investors like to review during the due diligence process
This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had Matt Cohen, Founder and Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures
- Watch on YouTube
- Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Open jobs at Vitalize portfolio companies

Written by Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing at VITALIZE, a venture capital firm and nearly 400+ 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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