Unless you are professional fundraiser of venture capital (which most would rather not be), two words can seem both daunting and mystifying: term sheet. You’ve built a great company: a product your customers love, revenue doubling year-over-year, a growing employee base, and a market position that most would envy. But you want more. You don’t…
When going out to raise money, entrepreneurs expect to have to provide a good deal of information to potential investors. Any decent venture capital fund is going to need to speak with some customers, assess the technical capabilities of the product, dive deep into accounting practices and conduct background checks on the management team, among…
I love enterprise software, B2B if you will. The consumer web bores me, both from an investing and personal standpoint (with the exception of Twitter, which is a killer RSS feed). A lot of money will be thrown at the consumer space, a lot of money has been made there (LinkedIn, Groupon, Pandora), and much…
The first mobile phone I remember setting eyes on was Gordon Gekko’s brick phone in the movie Wall Street. More ostentatious than practical, it symbolized the best that technology had to offer in 1987. Fast forward to 2011, and the brick phone has long since been replaced several times over. It is more likely to…
At OpenView Venture Partners, we just closed our second healthcare IT investment for 2010 this past week. We announced our minority investment in Prognosis Health Information Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information technology to rural and community hospitals. Prognosis is a leader in a trend we are beginning to see surface across the…
The world is full of creative and smart people. Many of them work for technology companies, from the burgeoning expansion stage business to the multi-billion dollar conglomerate. Regardless of the stage of the company, one maxim is true: innovate or die. That is to say, while a product offering may be cutting edge today, it…
Last week I wrote about the many factors that contribute to a rapidly transforming healthcare environment and how technology is playing a role in this evolution. This dynamic also coincides with an increase in the level of interest of venture capital funds in healthcare IT businesses. Here at OpenView Venture Partners, we made our first…
I am sitting in the airport in Kansas City, having spent the last 24 hours at the National Rural Health Association’s Critical Access Hospital Conference. In attendance were vendors and executives from critical access hospitals across the country. Critical access hospitals are designated as such as they have less than 25 beds and are the…
OpenView Venture Partners announced last week the launch of its OpenView Labs website. This dynamic resource features content that is highly relevant for expansion stage companies. Topics covered on the site include: – whole product management (including process and development) – customer development (sales and marketing, lead generation services and more!) – company development (finance,…
OpenView Venture Partners announced its investment of $9.5M in Kareo, an Irvine-based SaaS business focused on offering small healthcare providers with an easy-to-use platform for practice management and medical billing. Kareo aims to accommodate a provider’s workflow and help them to get paid faster. Kareo is just one example of emerging expansion stage companies in…
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