Reaching #1 on Product Hunt, 8 Venture Lessons in 2022, and the Community Commitment Curve

A newsletter for founders & friends (50th edition)

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Welcome to the 50th 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 3,300+ people each week.

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Exciting Update!

VITALIZE Angels, our angel investing community of 425+ members open to everyone (Including non-accredited investors) is holding in-person events around the country this year!

This month, we have a happy hour in Los Angeles, next month we have a happy hour in Chicago, and we have many others in the works!

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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Reaching #1 on Product Hunt

Click on the tweet for a breakdown of each one

Iuliia Shnai 🌸 @shnai0

10 UNTYPICAL things we did to reach the #1 spot on @ProductHunt 1. 🏝 Side project 2. 🔥Warm up 3. 🐣 Tweet it 4. 🤡 Brand it 5. 🔗 Test Message 6. 🙋‍♀️ Personalise it 7. 💭 Show value 8. 🤖 Bot it 9. ⛷ Be quick 10. 🪄 Magic it

🥈 8 Venture Lessons in 2022

Click on the tweet for 4 more lessons

Nichole Wischoff @NWischoff

Lessons I learned in venture this year: 1. Most people want you to win 2. Real "value add" is largely intangible (answering the 10pm call) 3. Breaking in is hard, barrier to making real impact once in is low 4. Courageous authenticity is a massive asset

🥉 The Community Commitment Curve

David Spinks @DavidSpinks

The Community Activation Point (aka “the CAP”) is the point at which a member starts creating the value that other members come to the community to consume. It’s the action that sparks the community engine.

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Resources

• 5 key startup accounting terms for finance metrics

• On optimizing and scaling decision-making at startups

• $1M+ revenue NoCode stack of 4 non-tech founders

• Database of AI tools for every use case by Ben's Bites

• The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2022

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Future of Work Reads

• 5 employment trends that will shape the workplace in 2023 (Fast Company)

• Is Remote Work Dying A Fast Death? (Forbes)

• Here's how a digital workforce benefits businesses and workers (WEF)

• Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill (NYT)

• Burned by layoffs, tech workers are rethinking risk (TechCrunch)

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The World of VITALIZE

• We’ve had two episodes of The VITALIZE Podcast since our last Re:VITALIZE newsletter! Last week, we had the first of Off Topic, a special series where we dig into a variety of topics, trends, and current events in the startup ecosystem, with Andrew Gazdecki and Gale Wilkinson. This week, we had Pejman Nozad, the Co-Founder and Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC, a firm specializing in seed-stage investments that partners with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies.

  • Watch on YouTube

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

• VITALIZE portfolio company The Mom Project, is holding The Comeback virtual summit on February 21 and 22

• Bo Davis, the co-founder of VITALIZE portfolio company MarginEdge, was featured on the Restaurant Tech Guys podcast

• Suma Wealth, a VITALIZE portfolio company, was featured on Forbes

• Jessica Chang, CEO & Co-Founder of VITALIZE portfolio company WeeCareCo, was on HR Daily Advisor

• VITALIZE portfolio company Placer is hiring senior full-stack engineers

  • Email Caroline to learn more - caroline@vitalize.vc

• VITALIZE portfolio company Abstract is hiring a full-time Legislative Product Consultant and full-time Lead Data Engineer

  • Email Caroline to learn more - caroline@vitalize.vc

• Open jobs at more 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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