Weekly Planning Structure, Funding Announcement Tips, and Differentiating Yourself

A newsletter for founders & friends (61st edition)

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Welcome to the 61st 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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Top 3 Tweets

🥇 Weekly Planning Structure

Tara Viswanathan @TaraViswanathan

Weekly planning structure I created 8+ yrs ago and still use 🙏 - 4 main buckets - 3-5 goals in each bucket - top 3 things I need to accomplish this week - read every morning and evening - check off progress through the week Sunday evening routine, here we go! 💫

🥈 Funding Announcement Tips

𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗵✌🏼 @DEVINENASH

Attention is scarce. But as an early-stage founder, your startup's survival depends on it. So, how the heck can you make the most of announcing your early-stage funding? Let's thread the needle 🪡🧵 Expert advice from the best in the biz 👇

🥉Differentiating Yourself

Allison Byers @apbyers

Even if everything in your pitch is strong, the investor has to feel a connection and want to work with *you*. Don't hide your personality. Use it to differentiate yourself.

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Resources

• Crowdsourced: a thread of sources that are lending capital to founders

• Uncommon strategies for raising capital

• Lessons in immersive user research

• A guide for founders considering a different path

• 5 mistakes and 5 best practices for various acquisition channels

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Future of Work Reads

• Safety, Tech Skills And Worker Satisfaction Will Define The Future Of Work (Forbes)

• The way we work is about to change (CNN)

• From the Great Resignation to the Great Refusal—here’s what the 5 ‘Great Rs’ mean for the future of work (Fast Company)

• Research: Remote Workers Are More Anxious About Layoffs (HBR)

• Generation Z Yearns for Stability (WSJ)

• Ways HR is thinking about attracting and retaining Gen Z talent (CNBC)

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The World of VITALIZE

• VITALIZE portfolio company Placer was named one of America's Best Startup Employers by Forbes

• VITALIZE portfolio company OpenAxis, recently launched its new AI feature. Signup for early access

• General Partner of VITALIZE, Gale Wilkinson, was on the Alternative Investment Podcast

• April cohort of VITALIZE Angels community is now open for applications! Sign up 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 450+ 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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