article thumbnail

What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. So we largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.

article thumbnail

StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Content 175
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles. What is The Vinetta Project?

article thumbnail

Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There were no metrics. Him: On metrics. If we priced it based on any metrics your company would likely be worth less than 7 figures at your A round. I give the entrepreneurs usually 30-60 days afterwards to top-up a round with other helpful angels or seed funds that we mutually agree. So a convertible note was easier.

article thumbnail

How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

socalTECH

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. We all went to Oakwood High School, in North Hollywood in Los Angeles. The company has raised $1.9M in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV.

Pricing 113
article thumbnail

Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

socalTECH

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. We now have teams in our headquarters in Los Angeles, and offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

article thumbnail

Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

socalTECH

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. Medium and long term, I am excited to see how this involves into a true sport, bigger on every scale and metric than the NBA or NFL. That's what really excites me.