Latest VC blogger: Will Price, of Hummer Winblad

December 29, 2005 | Matt Marshall

We’ve just noted yet another Silicon Valley venture capitalist blogger: Will Price of Hummer Winblad.

Alarm:Clock notes that he is providing some good advice, and also points to his first tussle with a reader, who disagrees with his comment on angel investors.

Hummer Winblad has been kind of quiet in recent years. Back in 2001, reporter Ralph King wrote a classic article in Business 2.0 titled “Bonehead Safari — My Hunt for America’s Dumbest VC.” The full article is behind a registration page. Let’s just say he ended up at the door of Hummer Winblad. Hummer Winblad did Pets.com, which ate through $29 million, HomeGrocer (later part of Webvan, which later went out of business), $24 million. Gazoontite and…

Mambo, $14 million combined.

Perhaps it is time we moved on.

Price takes a stand on Washington’s bankrupt fiscal policy. Too few people in the industry seem to care, or say anything.

Judging from the comments on that post, though, he’s got spam problems, something that the Blogger software he is using has become known for.

We will follow his blog, which is also entitled Will Price, and probably put him up on our list of VC bloggers on our main page.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.