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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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Brian Carthas - OpenView Venture Partners

Brian Carthas

Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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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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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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Kim 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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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 Sales & Marketing Strategies

Spredfast and Social Media’s Changing Landscape

May 15, 2013 by

Spredfast and Social Media’s Changing Landscape

Social media rebels.

I recently had the pleasure of spending an afternoon at Spredfast, meeting the team and exploring the platform. Over the course of the visit, two things became clear: 1) Spredfast employees are awesome; 2) social media management is changing in a big way.

Pump Up the Volume: What’s Your Content Promotion Strategy?

May 13, 2013 by

Pump Up the Volume: What’s Your Content Promotion Strategy?

If you’ve ever taken the time to create a high-quality piece of B2B content, then you know that there’s nothing more frustrating than when it doesn’t get properly promoted. I mean, what’s the point of creating great content that never gets consumed? And yet, effective content promotion seems to be a recurring challenge plaguing many…

Calculating Marketing ROI: If You Can’t Measure It, Don’t Invest

May 8, 2013 by

Calculating Marketing ROI: If You Can’t Measure It, Don’t Invest

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Having trouble calculating marketing ROI for your marketing campaign? My advice is to pull the plug.

Lessons From ExactTarget’s First Outbound Prospecting Team: Interview with Christy Weymouth

May 7, 2013 by

Lessons From ExactTarget’s First Outbound Prospecting Team: Interview with Christy Weymouth

Christy Weymouth shares her insights and experiences building a sales team at ExactTarget, and offers first-hand advice on how to manage a lead generation team effectively.

How to Prepare for a Relationship Marketing Program

May 7, 2013 by

How to Prepare for a Relationship Marketing Program

Continuing my series on relationship marketing strategy examples, here is a detailed look at a multi-touch email drip campaign and the four steps you’ll need to prepare for your relationship marketing program.

Purchasing Sample: How Does It Work & What Do You Need To Know?

May 6, 2013 by

Purchasing Sample: How Does It Work & What Do You Need To Know?

Knowing the vocabulary and how the sample procurement process works will better prepare you for purchasing sample fulfill your fulfilling your research study goals.

3 Content Marketing and Branding Lessons from the Kentucky Derby

May 4, 2013 by

3 Content Marketing and Branding Lessons from the Kentucky Derby

It’s the first Saturday in May and that means one thing: It’s Derby Day. Here are three branding lessons content marketers everywhere should learn from the odd, irresistible majesty of the Kentucky Derby.

Bad News for Marketers: Are Tracking Cookies Headed for Deletion?

May 3, 2013 by

Bad News for Marketers: Are Tracking Cookies Headed for Deletion?

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Some think that the ‘Do Not Track’ movement marks the beginning of the end for tracking cookies. Don’t count on it.

Blogging Made Simple: How to Write a Good Blog Post in Less Time than You Think

May 2, 2013 by

Blogging Made Simple: How to Write a Good Blog Post in Less Time than You Think

Not all of us were born to be bloggers, but the truth is blogging doesn’t need to be a major time-suck, and it certainly shouldn’t be daunting. Here are a few tips to help you simplify your blogging process and learn how to write a good blog post sans the stress.

How to Build a Relationship Marketing Program in 4 Weeks

May 1, 2013 by

How to Build a Relationship Marketing Program in 4 Weeks

Part 1 of my guide covering how to build a relationship marketing program in four weeks walks you through developing your buyer’s journey, creating calls-to-action, building your content inventory, and identifying high-impact channels.