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Scott Maxwell - OpenView Venture Partners

Scott Maxwell

Scott Maxwell partners with management teams, boards, and investors to help build great companies.

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Amanda Maksymiw - OpenView Venture Partners

Amanda Maksymiw

Amanda Maksymiw focuses on developing marketing and PR strategies for both OpenView and its portfolio companies.

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Tien Anh Nguyen - OpenView Venture Partners

Tien Anh Nguyen

Tien Anh Nguyen heads up the Research and Analytics team.

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Devon McDonald - OpenView Venture Partners

Devon McDonald

Devon McDonald works with OpenView Partners portfolio companies on sales initiatives.

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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 mentor to our Portfolio, an engaged board member and plays an active role in investments.

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Brian Zimmerman - OpenView Venture Partners

Brian Zimmerman

Brian works with our portfolio executive teams to deliver the highest impact value-add consulting services, primarily focused on go-to-market strategies.

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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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Brandon Hickie - OpenView Venture Partners

Brandon Hickie

Brandon works with the portfolio companies to develop business strategies and optimize market and product positioning by means of market research, market intelligence, and customer and marketing analytics.

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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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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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Er-Si An - OpenView Venture Partners

Er-Si An

Er-Si An helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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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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Lindsey Gurian - OpenView Venture Partners

Lindsey Gurian

Lindsey Gurian recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio.

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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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Brian Carthas - OpenView Venture Partners

Brian Carthas

Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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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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Kevin Leary - OpenView Venture Partners

Kevin Leary

Kevin Leary works with marketing and content managers at OpenView to design and build our online experiences.

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Jonathan Crowe - OpenView Venture Partners

Jonathan Crowe

Jonathan focuses on executing OpenView’s content marketing strategy and processes.

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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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Dan Lane - OpenView Venture Partners

Dan Lane

Daniel Lane helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Brand Influence: Is Your Company Maximizing the Return on Its Efforts?

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Over the last 4 weeks, I have written a series of posts on how to measure an individual’s online influence and provided tips to improve your return on investment in the Blogging, Tweeting and LinkedIn influence channels. This week, I will shift my focus to online brand influence. Earlier today, OpenView released the second of…

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4 Reasons Why Your Company Needs a Content Factory

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If I asked you to close your eyes and imagine a content factory, what would you envision? Most of us associate factories with images of busy assembly lines filled with high-tech machinery. We might think about the people, parts, and processes that it takes to create a product like the laptop I’m writing this article…

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A Recap of the Content2Conversion Conference Presented by DemandGen Report

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DemandGen Report’s first Content2Conversion Conference was full of discussion and insight into B2B lead generation, lead nurturing, and content marketing.

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Top Web Design Influencers to Follow on Twitter

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If you’re looking for web design inspiration, search no further. Here is a list of the top design influencers to follow on Twitter.

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Should You Reconsider How You Measure Online Influence?

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Have you ever considered how becoming an influencer in a selected subject matter could impact your business? If so, you have probably explored Klout, Peer Index and other tools for measuring online influence, so you could determine how you were stacking up to the competition. In doing so, you probably learned that online influence is…

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How to Build Your Personal Brand Like a VC

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The top venture capitalists are personal branding machines. Here are some of the best practices you can learn from them to elevate your own personal brand.

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Is Your CRM Set Up for a Successful Outbound Prospecting Operation?

57 days ago by

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Without a fully built-out CRM, lead qualification can be a nightmare … and completely unproductive. Here is a list of several high-level CRM best practices for companies launching lead qualification teams.

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API Hubs: Bringing Big Data to the Masses

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How do you find out about an API in time to implement your awesome idea before anyone else does? API hubs. Here are three good ones to get you started.

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Best Practices in Interviewing & Recruiting: An Interview With Telamon

66 days ago by

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OpenView sits down with HR and benefits leaders at Telamon, a company specializing in human capital consulting, to discuss best practices for recruiting, interviewing, and on-boarding new hires.

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Does your Team REALLY Exhaust Sales Leads Before Moving on to New Verticals?

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Do we ever really “exhaust” leads? Here’s how you and your sales reps can track and act on existing leads in your database when it you feel they’ve been exhausted. A little analysis can go a long way.

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