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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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B2B Social Media Assessment: How Do Your Efforts Stack Up?

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In this blog, Amanda Maksymiw offers a simple B2B social media assessment to help marketers determine how to improve their efforts.

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Don’t Be Haunted By “IP” Mistakes

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When it’s time to raise capital these five IP mistakes can come back to haunt founders and/or CEOs, regardless of what stage their company is in.

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

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Brand Influence

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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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16 Questions to Ask When Mapping Out Your Lead Gen Team’s Relationship Marketing Plan

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When developing your company’s relationship marketing program it’s all about understanding your buyer persona and where they are in their buying journey.

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Why You’ll Hit the Wall Without MVV (Mission, Vision, and Values)

12 days ago by

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Companies can’t efficiently scale without establishing, committing to, and communicating their mission, vision, and values (MVV).

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LinkedIn Influence: How to Maximize the Return on Your LinkedIn Efforts

12 days ago by

LinkedIn Influence

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Over the last 3 weeks, I have written a series of blog posts challenging common practices for measuring online influence and offering advice on how to maximize influence in the Twitter and blogging channels. This week, I will share 12 tips to increase your LinkedIn influence. LinkedIn is often an underutilized influence channel. Many influencers…

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Google’s Dilemma: Buy Dropbox or Build Google Drive?

15 days ago by

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How did Google decide to develop Google Drive instead of purchasing Dropbox? The answers may impact your startup’s chances of acquisition one day.

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Why You Likely Aren’t Ready to Launch a Lead Gen Team

16 days ago by

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For most companies at the expansion stage, building and managing a successful lead gen team requires guidance and a large amount of critical prep work.

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5 Ways to Make Your B2B Marketing Smart

28 days ago by

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Practicing smart B2B marketing enables you to better connect with your audience, accomplish goals, and avoid looking stupid in the process.

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Should You Reconsider How You Measure Online Influence?

34 days ago by

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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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