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🧠 Every startup founder wants a peek inside a VC's head, right?

We've created the ultimate scheme of all the reasons why startups hear 'NO' from investors.

If you're a startup founder, try to get the most out of your rejections. Do your homework and come back upgraded.

📣 Share this post with your network and let's discuss the most frequent reasons you, as a founder, get rejected and you, as an investor, pass on potential investments.

Hey there, early-stage startups! 🚀

We've got something cool for you. At LETA Capital in collaboration with our portfolio companies, we've manually (yes, that's quite a feat in these AI times!) started to compile a directory of contractors and tools that we find indispensable in our operations.

Today, we launched this spreadsheet on Product Hunt so everyone in the startup & VC community could benefit: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/leta-s-list-of-contractors-and-tools

The categories include:
🔥 Sales
🔥 Finance
🔥 Legal Services
🔥 PR & Marketing
🔥 HR & Recruitment

We're looking to expand the list, but for now, we've got around 80 solid names and brands on there. Understandably, not every collaboration or tool utilized makes the cut for a recommendation🙃.

Give us your upvotes, share your thoughts in the comments, and feel free to spread the word!

LETA's List of Contractors and Tools - A database of all the verified vendors and tools we know | Product Hunt We're addressing the issue of trust, naturally, this means that the list cannot be overly extensive. But we gathered 80+ names curated by LETA's community and created a database of tools and vendors in legal & financial services, marketing, PR, sales, and HR.

Embracing the holiday spirit, we've decked out our Christmas tree with a unique twist! 🎄✨ Each ornament is a mini-representation of a company from our portfolio, intricately designed using AI. This is a festive merger of technology and tradition!

We're curious: what would your company look like as a Christmas tree ornament? Share your pictures in the comments!

Below, we're sharing the AI prompt we used for OpenAI's DALL·E.

Happy Holidays to everyone!



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12 Must-Read Books for Tech Entrepreneurs 📚

LETA's Managing Partner Alex Chachava highlighted an essential reading list every tech entrepreneur should explore to lead their companies towards a brighter future.

🧠 From understanding the intricacies of human behavior in Robert Sapolsky's "Behave" to mastering strategic thinking with Tolstoy's "War and Peace," each book offers unique perspectives and valuable lessons.

💡 Whether it's exploring the Universe with Boris Stern's "The Ark 47 Librae", diving into the fictional worlds of Terry Pratchett or exploring the future through Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", these books provide a blend of inspiration, strategy, and innovation.

🌐 "The Back Channel" by William Burns and "What You Do Is Who You Are" by Ben Horowitz are just a couple of examples that teach you soft skills, strategic thinking and the art of navigating corporate culture, crucial for any tech leader.

🔗 Check out the full list in Entrepreneur.

Our friends from MY.GAMES just launched amazing HAWKED game. The first early access weekend went very well, with plenty of happy players!

You can read more in the 1st comment. Full steam ahead!

LETA Capital presents its annual State of Phygital report

We are thrilled to share our latest report on the convergence of physical and digital realms – "State of Phygital 2023." Explore groundbreaking insights, VC market analysis, and future trends in phygital technology with us.

We invite you to spread the word and share the report with your community!

Let's make waves together! Tag someone who needs to see this!

Have a fantastic week ahead! 🚀✨

Leta Capital invested in ShapesXR participating in its $8.6M Seed Round

ShapesXR is a pioneer in making collaboration and creation in 3D accessible and completely changes the XR development landscape. It has more than 350 000 downloads on Meta Quest Store and is used by Logitech, MIT, Stanford and other notable organizations to dive into 3D design and prototype immersive apps, VR games and MR experiences within minutes.

"From the Leta Capital perspective, our commitment to the XR market remains strong. We believe that it's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' — the paradigm-shifting potential of this computational platform will diffuse in every aspect of our lives", says Sergey Toporov, Partner at LETA Capital.

Read more about the round: https://www.leta.vc/news/leta-capital-invested-in-shapesxr-8-6m-seed-round

Are you an early-stage startup CEO or CPO? Then this post is definitely for you!

We've curated a list of tier-1 influencers in product management with all the links to their accounts and blogs so you can easily subscribe and get all the valuable insights they provide.

1️⃣ Marty Cagan
2️⃣ Melissa Perri
3️⃣ Jeff Gothelf
4️⃣ Julie Zhuo
5️⃣ Jared Spool
6️⃣ Jake Knapp
7️⃣ John Cutler
8️⃣ Teresa Torres
9️⃣ Roman Pichler
🔟 Laura Klein

The link is below ⬇

Startups with SOC2 certifications stand a better chance at landing enterprise deals than those that don’t have them. If your startup handles sensitive customer information, SOC 2 is a must.

Read more on our Medium blog.

Link is below👇

Have you ever laid your employees off? Or been thinking about that?

The problem of running out of cash for a startup is usual, and there are plenty of resources for founders to help navigate through the low runway situation.

Here are our 10 tips you can use as a checklist to prevent layoffs in your startup.

10 Tips to Avoid Layoffs When a Startup is Running Out of Cash Startup founders with

Here is the list of 21 small talk questions & conversation starters our Senior Investment Analyst Anton Shardin uses to break the ice at a startup event. Looking forward to hearing yours!

Small Talk Topics I Use at Startup Events I wasted time overthinking and eventually missed my chances at previous events. So, I decided to get prepared and came up with this list.