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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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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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Jonathan Crowe - OpenView Venture Partners

Jonathan Crowe

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

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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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Thought Leadership Articles

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

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Inspiration week 4 - How things stack up

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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SaaS Marketing: Win by Emphasizing the “Service”

47 days ago by

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In my last post, I dissected the fundamental issues with SaaS marketing techniques in that most strategists still think of SaaS product as a tangible, concrete, self-contained, transferable, or, in short, classic software product, provided superficially “on-demand”, slapped together with a “subscription pricing” that is just another word for “glorified maintenance”. The truth is that…

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New Example of B2B Content Marketing at Work

49 days ago by

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Think about adding on a content hub to your content marketing repertoire to build thought leadership, brand awareness, and community engagement within your target audience.

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Choosing Content that Elevates Your Brand, Generates Sales, and Positions Your Company for Success

71 days ago by

Content is King

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Great content can drive traffic to your company’s website and turn prospects into customers. Here’s how to get the biggest bang for your content marketing buck.

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How Does Your Influencer Marketing Strategy Stack Up?

78 days ago by

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An Assessment for Influencer Marketing While the majority of my time is spent experimenting with different social media and influencer marketing strategies for OpenView, I am always looking for ways to help our marketers within our portfolio companies and other startups execute their jobs smarter and more efficiently.  In my blog for this week, I’d…

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A Key Content Marketing Hire: Why You Need a Managing Editor and What to Look For

105 days ago by

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In my last post, I began making the case for why writing matters to your company’s bottom line since it’s the backbone of effective content marketing. This week, in conjunction with a couple of searches our recruiting team is working on, I’m writing about a role any expansion-stage company ramping up its content marketing efforts…

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3 LinkedIn Marketing Tactics to Try Now

114 days ago by

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B2B Social Media Tactics to Try We already know that LinkedIn is a great channel for recruiting your next star candidate.  And smart marketers know that it is a great channel to incorporate into a marketing plan.  If you haven’t had the time to explore LinkedIn marketing to the fullest, I will share 3 things…

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Turning Ideas into Impact

120 days ago by

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As some of you may know (because you’re probably subscribers!), OpenView got into the newsletter business a couple of years ago. At the time, we were looking at our content marketing strategy and pouring over the many goals we had for content creation, lead generation, and developing true thought leadership in an industry (venture capital)…

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Why Personal Branding is Important for ALL Employees

132 days ago by

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While it is key for CEOs and founders to have a strong personal brand in order to develop credibility and thought leadership for the overall organization, this responsibility should not only fall on only one or two sets of shoulders.  Every employee in your organization can contribute to the cause! Why CEOs Should Push Every…

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This Year’s Highlights for B2B Marketing

142 days ago by

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A B2B Marketing Year in Review Ah, another year is over.  I am still finding it hard to believe that we are just days away from 2012.  Before I welcome the new year, I thought it would be cool to take a look back at this past year and share a few key trends and…

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