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…
Read Full Article about Brand Influence: Is Your Company Maximizing the Return on Its Efforts?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…
Read Full Article about Should You Reconsider How You Measure Online Influence?When you’re tasked with recruiting for a venture capital firm and its portfolio of almost 20 companies, things can get hectic. There are days when I have nothing scheduled except phone screens. Some interviewees are worthy of being moved forward to the next round, while many others are passed on. When a phone screen doesn’t…
Read Full Article about Take the Interview?Prior to Google’s IPO a decade ago, there were few avenues for ordinary investors to own shares of pre-IPO entities. Substantially all of the equity in early stage tech companies was held by the management team, company employees and participating venture capital firms. My, how times have changed. Today there are a number of ways…
Read Full Article about The Hot Market for Pre-IPO TechIn my years of working with venture capital firms focused on expansion stage investments, one of the biggest challenges companies raising venture capital face is in inside sales recruiting. Many are just not prepared or experienced in managing, coaching and developing people or prepared for the investment (time) in the success of the team. The first step…
Read Full Article about Inside Sales Recruiting: Wanna Hire Top Talent? INVEST IN IT!!When going out to raise money, entrepreneurs expect to have to provide a good deal of information to potential investors. Any decent venture capital fund is going to need to speak with some customers, assess the technical capabilities of the product, dive deep into accounting practices and conduct background checks on the management team, among…
Read Full Article about 5 Documents to Have In Hand When Approaching a VCI recently chimed in on this question in Quora: Do venture capitalists need approval from their investors before making an investment in a company? Then I thought about what my answer would be from a portfolio company standpoint. Should a company care about the profile of the limited partners in the VC’s fund? The answer…
Read Full Article about Should You Care About Your VC’s Investors?Across several venture capital firms and the start-ups they invest in, employee benefits will vary tremendously. Several companies out there, whether or not they are an expansion stage start-up, seem to have really impressive employee benefits. However, always take what you see at face value with a grain of salt. A few months ago, I…
Read Full Article about How Good Are Your Employee Benefits?When your company is still nascent, your number one concern is probably to generate immediate revenue and to pay the bills and the employees. With just a small number of early adopters for customers, the imperative is to get as many new customers as possible. This all makes basic business sense. Yet, sometimes having a…
Read Full Article about Big deals for a startup?I realize the general perception is that a recruiter is more or less a salesperson. Instead of selling a good or service, you’re selling a candidate or a company. Although that might be true in many cases, I certainly don’t feel that applies in my situation. Recruiting for OpenView Venture Partners and our portfolio doesn’t require…
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