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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 recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio.

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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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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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Salima Ladha - OpenView Venture Partners

Salima Ladha

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

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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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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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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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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 Other

What Really Matters for Women in Tech: Hotness!

March 25, 2013 by

What Really Matters for Women in Tech: Hotness!

She might be able to enter the tech beauty pageant someday if she's pretty enough!

Thanks, Complex Magazine! Finally, someone is talking about women in tech from a brave, new angle: hotness.

Building Your Partner Ecosystem, Part 1: Who Are Your Potential Ecosystem Partners?

March 19, 2013 by

Building Your Partner Ecosystem, Part 1: Who Are Your Potential Ecosystem Partners?

Building a partner ecosystem is important to your company’s distribution strategy. The post will discuss the most common types of ecosystem partners in the software industry.

Want to Improve Your Outbound Lead Generation? Leverage Marketing

March 12, 2013 by

Want to Improve Your Outbound Lead Generation? Leverage Marketing

To build better lead lists your marketing and outbound lead generation teams need to be on the same page. These three tips will help you foster more effective inter-team collaboration and generate more productive lead lists.

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

March 12, 2013 by

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

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.

How One Consultant Sleeps at Night

February 25, 2013 by

How One Consultant Sleeps at Night

Misaligned incentives and a lack of accountability have traditionally taken their toll on management consulting ethics. OpenView Labs is a different kind of consultant. Here’s why.

OpenView Office Remodeling Lesson #2: Leverage the Resources You Already Have

February 15, 2013 by

OpenView Office Remodeling Lesson #2: Leverage the Resources You Already Have

Erin (right) and myself chat in the newly remodeled kitchen at Expansion Lab.

The second post in this three-part series looks at leveraging the resources you already have to get the most out of your office remodeling project.

OpenView’s Office Remodeling Lesson #1: Stay Organized

January 30, 2013 by

OpenView’s Office Remodeling Lesson #1: Stay Organized

There are few things that appear as hectic as a complete office remodel. This is the first post in a three-part series providing office remodeling lessons OpenView recently learned first hand.

Microsoft Finally Got It Right! They Now Have a Plain English End-User License Agreement

January 23, 2013 by

Microsoft Finally Got It Right! They Now Have a Plain English End-User License Agreement

Microsoft drafted their new Windows 8 end-user license agreement in plain English and in a way that has never been done before.

2012 Blogging Year in Review: A Look at My Top 6 Posts/Series

January 5, 2013 by

2012 Blogging Year in Review: A Look at My Top 6 Posts/Series

Highlights from my 2012 blogging efforts: Now that 2012 has come to an end, I would like to share some highlights with you from last year’s blogging efforts.  My blog amassed 44,367 page views this year. That’s a 253% increase over the previous year. The main topics I covered last year were: Lost Customer Research…

5 Tips for Setting Career Building Resolutions for the New Year

January 4, 2013 by

5 Tips for Setting Career Building Resolutions for the New Year

It’s that time of year! Here are five examples to help you set career building resolutions and reach your goals for 2013.