A response to my blog last week, One Word, really set me thinking over the past few days. What is OpenView Venture Partners‘ dumbwaiter pitch, or “one word”? As an expansion stage Boston venture capital firm that also provides strategic consulting services, financial consulting services, and value-add assistance in implementation of best practices process across all functional…
Read Full Article about OpenView Venture Partners' One WordMany times, expansion stage CEOs are a bit taken aback when we ask them to define their company exit strategy. A common response is, “Exit strategy? I’m building the next Google, or Facebook, or [fill in the blank].” Often these CEOs are the same CEOs that view finance and CFOs as a necessary evil, rather…
Read Full Article about Company Exit Strategy?President Obama signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act into law a few weeks ago. There are a number of incentives and benefits to employers, which are intended to encourage hiring and business investment. If you haven’t already researched whether your company can benefit from these tax credits, please check into it and…
Read Full Article about Do You Know How the HIRE Act Will Affect Your Business?OpenView Venture Partners recently released a new case study about our Capability Maturity Model for Finance Workshop! As an expansion stage venture capital fund that actively provides value-add financial consulting services and strategic consulting services to our portfolio companies, there is really nothing more rewarding than receiving validation from our portfolio companies. No matter how great a…
Read Full Article about Are You Driving Extraordinary Execution?Key Facts: 1. Expansion stage software companies are companies who have a fully developed product/solution and are gaining traction within their market. 2. The product is clearly differentiated from its competitors whether it be functionality, vision or business model. 3. The business focused on products with 40% or less revenue coming from services, implementations or customization. 4. From…
Read Full Article about What is an expansion stage company?At OpenView, we aim to provide our companies with operational support in various areas. Typically, I write about how we provide sales and marketing support to our companies, but in this post I’d like to shed some light on how we consult within other areas of a business. Last week we released our latest case…
Read Full Article about How We Help: OpenView Venture Partners' Latest Case StudyThis is not going to be a typical post from an expansion stage venture capital firm. I bet you also won’t see this blog topic very frequently from a venture capital firm that also offers financial consulting services and strategic consulting services. The weather travails that my husband and I experienced the past few weeks…
Read Full Article about Is Your Roof Leaking?I just read another interesting article on mobile banking and mobile money transfer. Gartner says many emerging and rapidly developing nations like India, Brazil, China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Africa have gone right to mobile banking, “skipping” ATMs and other banking infrastructure all together. In the US, 17% of all adults are using mobile banking…
Read Full Article about Gartner says mobile banking bigger than mobile browsingTomorrow we go into part two of our annual planning sessions. We do this for a couple of reasons. First, we believe that getting set up well with a one-year planning horizon every year really helps to get everyone aligned and tends to get the list of goals down to the most important ones that…
Read Full Article about Annual Planning, phase IIYes, I Doodle at work and my boss is happy about it! Doodle is a great tool for anyone who schedules meetings that include multiple people in various time zones. I use Doodle to set up our annual venture capital advisors meeting. Whether you work in private equity investments, financial consulting services or venture capital…
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