Guest Post by Frank Richards As a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, I love building great teams and visionary companies. I feel truly fortunate to have built three innovative companies starting from “the garage”, to taking the company public in the midst of the dot com bust, and to raising a VC round of financing for […]
Read MoreBerger joins as Associate; Lyons joins as Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) Claremont Creek Ventures, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm known for turbocharging the uncommon startup, today announced the addition of two investment professionals who have impressive experience either in the medical sector or in product leadership at early-stage cleantech innovators. Brian Berger, MD, 41, joins […]
Read MoreThere is a brilliant investor/venture capitalist who lives in Berkeley California named Moshe Alafi. He was a big supporter of my first company, TOPS, and of my third company, Cybergold. After I sold TOPS to Sun Microsystems in 1987, the venture fund that had invested in TOPS offered to make me a partner. I remember […]
Read MoreMay 13, 2010 source: VentureBeat.com It’s a relationship, not a transaction: Tips for fundraising entrepreneurs Thanks to the most devastating recession in decades and dramatic shifts in the venture industry, finding investors to write those first checks is a frustrating, time-sucking process for entrepreneurs – but that doesn’t mean they can’t be particular. If you’re […]
Read MoreClaremont Creek Ventures was founded in 2005 by Nat Goldhaber, John Steuart and Randy Hawks to pursue early stage investing in exceptional technology startups.