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Scott Maxwell, OpenView Venture Partners

Scott Maxwell

Scott Maxwell founded OpenView Venture Partners in 2006 and has worked in venture capital for over 13 years. For more insight from Scott, you can visit his blog and connect with him on Twitter @scottsnews.    

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Tien Anh Nguyen, OpenView Venture Partners

Tien Anh Nguyen

Tien Anh Nguyen heads up the OpenView Research and Analytics team. He is focused on leading market and product strategy engagements in areas such as target segmentation, marketing operations management, and marketing channels research with portfolio companies and investment prospects.

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Devon McDonald, OpenView Venture Partners

Devon McDonald

Devon McDonald is responsible for working directly with key stakeholders within OpenView’s portfolio to provide strategic guidance in the areas of sales, marketing, and influencer channel development, as well as operational efficiencies.

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George Roberts, OpenView Venture Partners

George Roberts

George enjoys partnering with companies and helping them achieve their goals through strategy, focus and operational execution.

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Firas Raouf, OpenView Venture Partners

Firas Raouf

Firas Raouf is a founding member of OpenView Venture Partners. He is a mentor to OpenView's Portfolio, an engaged board member, and plays an active role in investments. Connect with him on Twitter @fraouf.

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Brandon Hickie, OpenView Venture Partners

Brandon Hickie

Brandon Hickie works with OpenView's portfolio companies to develop business strategies and optimize market and product positioning by means of market research, market intelligence, and customer and marketing analytics. Connect with him on Twitter @bhickie.

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Diana Martz, OpenView Venture Partners

Diana Martz

Diana Martz is the Director of Talent for OpenView Venture Partners. She joined OpenView in 2009 and manages the firm's Talent team, which works with portfolio companies on high priority recruitment initiatives. In addition, Diana leads key searches for OpenView and its portfolio companies, works with leadership teams on recruitment strategy, and helps build overall talent pipeline.

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Jeremy Aber, OpenView Venture Partners

Jeremy Aber

Jeremy Aber consults the Portfolio on legal and contract matters.

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Ori Yankelev, OpenView Venture Partners

Ori Yankelev

Ori Yankelev works with our portfolio on sales and marketing initiatives.

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Nick Petri, OpenView Venture Partners

Nick Petri

Nick analyzes portfolio companies and their target markets to help them focus on opportunities for profitable growth.

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Lindsey Gurian, OpenView Venture Partners

Lindsey Gurian

Lindsey Gurian is a Senior Talent Specialist responsible for recruiting initiatives at both the firm and its portfolio companies. Connect with her on Twitter @lindseygurian.

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Katy Smigowski, OpenView Venture Partners

Katy Smigowski

Katy Smigowski is responsible for recruiting initiatives for both the firm and its portfolio companies.

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Kevin Cain, OpenView Venture Partners

Kevin Cain

Kevin is responsible for setting and executing OpenView’s content marketing strategy.

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Meghan Maher, OpenView Venture Partners

Meghan Maher

Meghan Maher recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio Companies.

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Adam Marcus, OpenView Venture Partners

Adam Marcus

Adam focuses on investing in and building companies in several sectors, including software, digital media and technology enabled businesses.

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Carlie Smith, OpenView Venture Partners

Carlie Smith

Recruiter at OpenView & our portfolio companies.

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Jonathan Crowe, OpenView Venture Partners

Jonathan Crowe

Jonathan Crowe is the Managing Editor of OpenView Labs. He focuses on executing OpenView’s content marketing strategy, developing and publishing the best content possible to help expansion-stage technology companies grow and succeed.

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Sudip Verma, OpenView Venture Partners

Sudip Verma

Sudip works with portfolio companies to provide insights on the markets they operate in, their customers, and drive development of business strategies.

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Kevin Leary, OpenView Venture Partners

Kevin Leary

Kevin Leary designs and develops everything that OpenView does online. He has helped companies around the globe establish a brand online. He's an open-source fanatic, and a well respected WordPress developer.

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Megan McNeill, OpenView Venture Partners

Megan McNeill

Megan communicates with the firm’s portfolio and supports OpenView’s content marketing strategy.

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Ricky Pelletier, OpenView Venture Partners

Ricky Pelletier

Ricky Pelletier works with other members of the investment team to evaluate and execute new investments.

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Luis Fernandes, OpenView Venture Partners

Luis Fernandes

Luis Fernandes is responsible for helping OpenView and its portfolio companies build and grow integrated relationship marketing programs with prospects, customers, and key influencers. By working directly with sales and marketing stakeholders within OpenView’s portfolio, Luis helps implement programs and encourage best practices around distributing the most important messaging to the most targeted prospects, through the most appropriate channels, at the best times and frequency.

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Salima Ladha, OpenView Venture Partners

Salima Ladha

Salima Ladha recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio Companies.

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Nick Hammerschlag, OpenView Venture Partners

Nick Hammerschlag

Nick sources, analyzes and executes investments along with the other members of the investment team.

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Brian Carthas, OpenView Venture Partners

Brian Carthas

Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Dan Lane, OpenView Venture Partners

Dan Lane

Daniel Lane helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Jonathan Kimmel, OpenView Venture Partners

Jonathan Kimmel

Jonathan works with the investment team to identify, evaluate, and invest in growing companies.

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Kim helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Alex Flores, OpenView Venture Partners

Alex Flores

Alex is a social media intern at OpenView Labs. He is a communications major at Boston College entering his senior year.

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OpenView Staff, OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Staff

OpenView Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on helping technology companies turn their vision into reality.

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Articles on Customer Experience

How to Handle a Failed Product Offering: Lessons from Windows 8

May 24, 2013 by

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Will Microsoft’s customer’s forgive them for Windows 8? Here are a few lessons we can glean on backtracking gracefully from a failed product offering.

SaaS Product Strategy: 11 Industry Trends That Can Help You Follow Wayne Gretzky’s Advice

May 16, 2013 by

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Follow these 11 industry trends to see where the puck is going and make sure your SaaS product strategy gets you there first.

How to Say “Sorry” to Your Clients

May 3, 2013 by

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Here are three lessons in customer service conflict resolution I recently learned from the automotive industry. Even though my dealer let me down, I’ll keep going back. Here’s why.

B2B Customer Relationship Management: Building a Customer Touchpoint Plan

April 4, 2013 by

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Maintaining a steady stream of communications with your customers is key to retaining them. Read on for tips on how to improve your customer relationship management by crafting a customer touchpoint strategy.

Building a Partner Ecosystem, Part 2: Partnerships with Professional Service Providers

March 28, 2013 by

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Strong partnerships with professional service providers are crucial to allowing a technology company to provide a satisfying full product experience for its customers.

Creating a Customer Service Oriented Organization: 3 Lessons from the Walmart Approach to Customer Satisfaction

March 27, 2013 by

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Are you in the early stages of building your organization? Read on for some key tactics to help in creating a company that is truly customer service focused.

Developing Stronger B2B Customer Relationships: 3 Customer Engagement Tactics

March 18, 2013 by

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How important are strong B2B customer relationships? You might be surprised how these three customer engagement tactics can help impact your bottom line.

Are You Selling Trust or Software? A Crucial SaaS Lesson from Salesforce.com’s Trust Site

March 12, 2013 by

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Salesforce.com was spending way too much time negotiating its SLA, so what did it do? It simply moved the material to a dedicated trust site. And you can, too.

Professional Services for Software Companies: People, Organization, and Processes

February 26, 2013 by

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When it comes to professional services for software companies, the best talent needs to have a rare combination of technical expertise, collaborative working style, and a customer-centered attitude.

Empower Your Software Product with a Successful Professional Services Team: The Challenges

February 12, 2013 by

Time Jumper

To compete successfully with major incumbent software vendors, expansion-stage companies need to develop an effective professional services organization.