Investment Memo vs. Deck, $1 TRILLION of VC-Backed Exits, and Rules for Great Pitch Deck Titles

A newsletter for founders & friends (55th edition)

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Investment Memo vs. Deck

Lisa Enckell @enckelli

Got an investment memo instead of a deck. Must say that a well-written investment memo is much better than a deck.

Lisa Enckell @enckelli

@SamuelLazarus @HustleFundVC @ericbahn @dunkhippo33 @VitalizeVC @galeforceVC I haven’t. But important things to cover: Clear headline/positioning Introduction Market size/opportunity The problem/what’s broken Go-to-market/idea on gaining momentum Competition/substitute Why we will win Team

🥈 $1 TRILLION of VC-Backed Exits

Ansaf Kareem @AnsafK

It's been a tough period of liquidity in tech markets this past year, but if you zoom out there's been over $1 TRILLION of VC-Backed exits since 2020. More than 60 PERCENT of the value of VC-Backed exits over the past decade happened in just the last 3 years.

🥉 Simple Rules For Great Pitch Deck Titles

Christopher Laughlin @claughlin

Simple rules for great pitch deck titles - @ericbahn -Assume no one will read your deck -Assume they'll only read slide titles -Make each slide title a simple sentence -Sentences together should read as a paragraph -Paragraph should communicate 70% of what investors need to know

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Resources

• List of viable mentor options for founders

• Currently active pre-seed healthcare and health-tech investors

• Various tech stacks to checkout

• Best growth marketers for technical products

• $11 BILLION SaaS business story, hurdles, and lessons

• The 5 Phases of Figma’s Community-Led Growth

• $30M design strategies guide for growth

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Future of Work Reads

• The Future Of Work: Are Traditional Degrees Still Worthwhile? (Forbes)

• How To Succeed With Hybrid Work Using People Data (Forbes)

• It’s time to embrace the 40% office (Fast Company)

• Research: How Coworking Spaces Impact Employee Well-Being (HBR)

• The future isn’t what it used to be: Here's how strategic foresight can help (WEF)

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The World of VITALIZE

• VITALIZE portfolio company Suma, has acquired the finance platform, Reel

• Aunt Flow, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is at the Super Bowl

• Genomenon, a VITALIZE portfolio company, is in partnership with Flagship Biosciences to advance precision medicine development

• VITALIZE portfolio company Lectrium, recently launched their new EV tools on Product Hunt

• 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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