I often speak with executive management teams looking for expansion capital and many of them seemed unprepared for this daunting process. Representing a Boston venture capital firm, here are are some simple tips for helping that process succeed: 1. Create several financial models and options. Show an option without raising at all…this will demonstrate your confidence in your…
Read Full Article about Some Simple Advice to a Startup CEORecollections and Projections – 25 year anniversary of Network World Working at an expansion stage Boston venture capital fund, I have to constantly follow the latest developments in the technology world. For reliable, up-to-date news and analysis on IT infrastructure, networking and telecommunications, I have always found Network World to be the best publication. This…
Read Full Article about Happy Birthday – Network WorldI was presenting at the OpenView (Boston Venture Capital firm) CFO Forum in Boston to their expansion stage portfolio companies, and I actually learned a lot from some Grant Thornton tax presenters about collecting sales tax on software-as-a-service transactions. They also have a brief article on the web about it. I thought it was worth…
Read Full Article about Taxation of SAAS: What I Learned!If you have been following any of my posts for the past couple of weeks, you know that we have been working on releasing a pure content site to provide ideas and inspiration for senior management teams of expansion stage companies. The time has finally come. This morning Boston venture capital firm, OpenView Partners, released…
Read Full Article about Meet OpenView LabsI use quotes around the term “expansion stage” because we are at a point in our life cycle where we are expanding to a new space. It has been an exciting time here at OpenView Venture Partners over the last few months with planning and executing the addition of our new space. We are going…
Read Full Article about "Expansion Stage" at OpenViewI use quotes around the term “expansion stage” because we are at a point in our life cycle where we are expanding to a new space. It has been an exciting time here at OpenView Venture Partners over the last few months with planning and executing the addition of our new space. We are going…
Read Full Article about "Expansion Stage" at OpenViewHow OpenView Helped One Company If you have visited my blog before, you know that I write a lot about influence marketing. This is because I have dedicated so much of my time at OpenView Labs to building up one expansion stage company’s influence marketing strategy. Exinda, a portfolio company that specializes in WAN optimization…
Read Full Article about An Influence Marketing Success StoryThinking like Publishers – Using Editorial Calendars OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston venture capital firm, will be releasing a new website in the coming weeks to share our expertise and approaches for building expansion stage companies. The new site will be a pure content site, focused on providing best practices, frameworks, and ideas for senior…
Read Full Article about More Lessons from our Content Marketing ExperimentOver the past few weeks I have been familiarizing myself with the world of podcasting. Researching best practices, technologies and uses for podcasting in a Boston venture capital firm like ours. While researching, I was also looking to see how applicable podcasting could be used for an expansion stage company with a content marketing strategy.…
Read Full Article about Podcasting 101: Business Benefits and Best Practices for an Expansion Stage CompanyLegal Considerations for Your Content Marketing Strategy Boston venture capital firm OpenView Venture Partners will be releasing a new content site in the coming weeks. The new site is focused on providing best practices, frameworks, and ideas for senior management teams at expansion stage companies about the important topics — customer development, whole product development,…
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