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by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 19th, 2011 
Guest Post by Frank Richards The Building of a Company As an avid fan and investor in real estate I identified a significant gap in the residential investment market around 2004. I noted that 15-20% of all homes sold in the US are for investment. But I also discovered that there were no national platforms or proprietary algorithms that could help people identify the best investment markets and the best properties. Essentially there was no Charles Schwab for the residential investment market. I realized there was a great opportunity for a private banking platform to help people research, plan, acquire and manage residential real estate investments nationwide. . . .
→ Read full post: Entrepreneur’s Perspective, part two: : Frank Richards, serial entrepreneur and former CEO of SmartZIP: The Building of a Company
by Claremont Creek Alerts on December 15th, 2011 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 a real estate analytics firm during the biggest real estate downturn in the history of the U.S. Throughout my journey, I . . .
→ Read full post: Entrepreneur’s Perspective: Frank Richards, Claremont Creek Ventures serial entrepreneur on the importance of partnerships
by Claremont Creek Alerts on June 18th, 2010 
February 10, 2010 source: Vator.tv Claremont Creek Ventures is one of the only VC firms in the East Bay. That’s a good thing for Nat Goldhaber, one of the managing directors at the Oakland-based firm. . . .
→ Read full post: Claremont Creek Ventures ‘LifeCycle’ venturing model attracts a solid flow of energy deals
by Ted Driscoll on June 1st, 2010 One of my overall areas of interest is where the venture capital business is heading in the coming decades. I thought I’d start out looking inward — looking at the job of a venture capitalist (VC) , what tasks a VC performs, and what skills make one VC better than another. The fact is there probably is only one ultimate measure of a VC that counts — return on invested capital. I’m not trying to dispute that. But . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Finding Deals
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