Re:Vitalize

A newsletter for founders & friends (1st edition)

Hey 👋

Welcome to the first edition of Re:Vitalize!

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

Gale, Caroline, and the rest of our team are excited to bring this to you today!

In our newsletter, you can expect to find tactics, strategies, and stories on building companies plus cool things we’re seeing in the future of work.

Thank you to Moriah Sawtelle for the great name suggestion and Mariam Nusrat, Michael Rush, Allison Byers, Jen, Jesse Andrews, and Jason Burke for your feedback on Twitter. Very much appreciated.

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Let's dive into our favorite insights from the past few weeks:

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FOW Key Insight

💼 The People Innovating in the Future of Work

Gale Wilkinson @Vitalize @galeforceVC

Who are the VCs & founders innovating in future of work that I should follow?

Top 3 Tweets

🥇 The Importance of Traction

MacTheVC.eth @MacConwell

🧵 1/ Founders need to understand why traction is such a big thing when fundraising. As opposed to how efficient you are with the money or resources you do have. Fundraising is a competitive sport. read more on this in the thread 👇🏾

🥈 Building Great Products

NikitaBier.eth @nikitabier

After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know: TIME FOR A THREAD 👇

🥉 Bugs vs. Features

Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao

Next time you think your product has a problem--stop. It's not a bug, it's a feature. A simple framework for turning problems into solutions: 🧵

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Founder Resources

• Black female VCs to get on your cap table

• The best non-YC, Non-Techstars, non-500 Startups accelerators

• How to scale revenue when you’re stuck

• A marketplace for hiring professionally accomplished women

• 300+ female VCs to connect with

• How to handle option grants

• The 12 worst recruiting mistakes and how to avoid them

• Copywriting examples to learn from

• A fundraising announcement to emulate

• 60 ideas to boost your growth

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The World of Vitalize

• Placer.ai hits a $1B valuation

• Zingtree announced a $15M raise and is hiring numerous roles

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

• Gale Wilkinson’s next founder roundtable is on February 15th

• Vitalize Angels currently has 4 live deals

• This week, The Vitalize Podcast featured Katie Shea of Divergent Capital and Jordi Hays of Party Round

• Check out Vitalize portfolio company open jobs

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