Getting Your First 1,000 Customers, Recruiting Women to Join Your Company, and Subreddits for Million-Dollar Business Ideas

A newsletter for founders & friends (32nd edition)

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Welcome to the 32nd 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.

Did you miss last week’s newsletter about launching a startup in 1 week, the most amazing co-founder announcement, and 13 must-use no-code tools? Subscribe below so you never miss another👇

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Getting Your First 1,000 Customers

Michelle Marcelline @michwirantono

How did we get our first 1,000 customers? By doing things that don't scale, as advised by @ycombinator 🤹‍♀️🧵

🥈 Recruiting Senior Women Leaders to Join Your Company

Jaleh Rezaei @jalehr

In the last 10 years I have hired over 300 people. I have found that it's WAY HARDER to recruit senior women leaders, even as a female CEO. Here’s my playbook for how to get great senior women to join your company:

🥉 Subreddits for Million-Dollar Business Ideas

Neel Parekh @NeelBParekh

I started a business that has generated almost $10M in revenue. And I got the idea from Reddit. But only a few people know the power of Reddit to fuel entrepreneurship. Here are 9 under-the-radar subreddits that will help you build a million dollar business: Thread 🧵👇

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Resources

• 12 systems for building multi-million dollar businesses

• Weird SaaS pricing models

• 5 ways Loom wows new users

• A guide to PLG timing

• The keys to success for USV

• Questions to ask on a reference call

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Future of Work Reads

• There's no going back for office workers (Axios)

• The metaverse is replacing the office. Meet the gamified workforce of the future (Fortune)

• Next in the Future of Work: Unleashing Human Potential (SAP)

• Project Management In The Future Of Work (Forbes)

• Workers are gaining the upper hand in the WFH war (Fortune)

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The World of VITALIZE

• This week on The VITALIZE Podcast we had Shruti Gandhi (@atShruti), founder and General Partner of Array Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on solving impactful problems in the world leveraging revolutionary technology.

  • Watch on YouTube

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

• Yesterday, we had our August pitches for VITALIZE Angels and you can view the companies and watch the recordings after joining here

• 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 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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