Future of Work Predictions, Best Employee Onboarding Practices, Startup Traction, & More

A newsletter for founders & friends (2nd edition)

Hey 👋

We’re back with the 2nd 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.

I’m Justin, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize and host of our show, The Vitalize Podcast.

For those who don’t know Gale, Caroline, and the rest of our team, we’re a venture capital firm and 300+ member angel community investing in the future of work. Founders interesting in working with us can pitch us here.

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FOW Key Insights

💼 Future of Work Predictions

Chris Herd @chris_herd

The media is getting return to office wrong again A few predictions on what will actually happen after talking to 3,000+ companies over the last 2 years about remote work [ a thread ] 💻 🏠 🌍

📖 Future of Work Reads

• The gig economy is trying to solve health care's burnout crisis (Axios)

• How Workers with a “Gig Mindset” Can Help Your Company Thrive (HBR)

• Four-day workweeks get rave reviews, but they're not catching on (Axios)

Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Startup Valuations at Pre-seed & Seed

Elizabeth Yin @dunkhippo33

Today's tweet thread is about startup valuations at pre-seed / seed that we're seeing in the mkt. This is a lagging indicator so the next 6 months will be interesting to reflect back upon. Thank you @will_bricker for pulling this data together! (Follow him!) Read on >>

🥈 The Best Employee Onboarding Practices

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

What are the best employee onboarding practices that you've ever experienced or seen? More detail the better!

🥉 Ways to Show Traction in Startups

Brandon Brooks @OfficialBBrooks

Traction doesn’t always need to be revenue. What are some ways you’ve seen early startups (maybe yours) convey traction?

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Founder Resources

• 340 incredible female startup thought leaders to follow on Twitter

• Lenny’s newsletter on how today’s fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers

• Marketing Playbooks from Demand Curve

• Pro tip for founders trying to raise capital

• How to reaccelerate to 100% yoy growth

• Ad copy swipe files for inspiration

• What causes a busted cap table

• How to build an antiracist company

• Zapier’s story of growing from 0 to 600,000+ users

• The legal aspects of startups

• A VC exit model for founders and VCs

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The World of Vitalize

• February 14th - Caroline is giving a presentation on “What Investors Look for in Due Diligence & Data Rooms”

• February 15th - Gale’s next founder roundtable

• February 15th - Vitalize Angels next live founder pitches

• February 16th-19th - Gale is visiting Miami! GPs and LPs, let her know if you want to meet up

• February 22nd-25th - Gale and Caroline are visiting Los Angeles (And the three of us will meet together in person for the first time!)

• This week, The Vitalize Podcast featured Anoop Gupta of Seekout, a $1.2B company that just raised $115M, and Mac Conwell of Rarebreed Ventures, a pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of large tech ecosystems, earlier than everyone else.

• Vitalize portfolio company open jobs

• Gale’s adorable foster pups are ready to be adopted

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Written by Justin Gordon, Director of Marketing at Vitalize, a venture capital firm and 300+ member angel investing community for everyone investing in U.S.-based B2B software founders in the future of work. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.