Essential YC Advice, Tactical Metrics, and a Tech Reality Check
A newsletter for founders & friends (64th edition)
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Welcome to the 64th 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 3,400+ people each week.
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🥇 The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice
🥈 $15M Tactical Advice on Metrics
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🥉 2023 Tech Reality Check
Resources
Crowdsourced: How founders came across their earliest technical talent
A company’s tech stack at a $10M Fund
A free guide to no code marketplaces
The Complete List Of Unicorn Companies
AI use cases for community builders
Playbook on finding and working with the right startup advisors
Curated sheets of VC funds and investors
A thread of NYC-based movers & shakers in tech/VC
Great UX designs of startups to check out
7 resources and programs for Africa-based startups
Future of Work Reads
Bosses Are Training Employees To Be Influencers—After Long Discouraging Social Media Posts About Work (Forbes)
What Gen Z women risk losing because of remote and hybrid work (Fast Company)
Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of Americans (WSJ)
How Your Physical Surroundings Shape Your Work Life (HBR)
You Call This ‘Flexible Work’? (NYT)
Hiring Freezes And Layoffs Call For Companies To Recruit And Retain ‘10x Employees’ (Forbes)
How ChatGPT is changing the job hiring process, from the HR department to coders (CNBC)
The World of VITALIZE
VITALIZE portfolio company Virtual Sapiens, was named one of the top 25 future of work blogs by Feedspot
VITALIZE founder and managing partner Gale Wilkinson, is in Disruption Magazine Canada
Justin Gordon, VITALIZE Director of Marketing, was on First Class Founders podcast
Sparkwise, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is hiring a founding sales rep
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 450+ 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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