Tom Cole, VC with Trinity, starts yummy blog

July 20, 2006 | Matt Marshall

Tom Cole, a venure capitalist with Trinity Ventures has launched a blog about food, cool places to eat around Silicon Valley and is dropping names while he does it. It is called Consuming Ambitions.

We commend him for the different approach. We met Tom during the depths of the post-Internet bubble depression, noticed he was young, and worried he might not hang on (lots of younger partners were getting axed). But he is an easy-going guy and he has pulled through, and appears to be having fun. He’s got quite a roster of dining pals, from early Google advisor Rajeev Motwani, who he meets at Palo Alto Indian restaurant Junnoon, and prolific Web 2.0 investor Josh Kopelman, where he picks up marketing lessons from the lowly fortune cookie.

Tom has invested in wiki company Wetpaint and leading photo-sharing company Photobucket, among others.

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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.