You’re ready to begin scaling your business. You’ve identified a need for talent. You’ve just received venture capital funding. You are ready to hire! Wait. Maybe… If you’re a new hiring manager, or just recently started your own business, you may be asking yourself…”Where do I even begin?” The first order of business is of…
Read Full Article about Ready to Hire? A Quick Guide to Setting Your Recruitment StrategyI am just arriving at the end of my first year working in venture capital and I’m thrilled to say that I love my job and love the people that I work with here at OpenView Venture Partners. This past year has gone by exceptionally fast, though I’m beginning to think that every year of…
Read Full Article about Don’t Forget: VCs Are Sales People Trying to Make MoneyWhen 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 VCAfter OpenView Venture Partners makes an investment, obviously that new portfolio company is looking to scale their business. More often than not, this comes in the form of building out their sales team. Very rarely are these newly acquired venture capital funds used to hire human resources or recruiting personnel. Although these hires would be…
Read Full Article about Which Web-Based Applicant Tracking System Do I Use?The WSJ had an article yesterday on how venture capital funding is going more and more to consumer technology companies rather than business technology companies. The stimulus is clear: More and more people are online everyday and everyone is spending more time online, so the consumer market opportunities continue to get larger. Also, several consumer…
Read Full Article about Looking for B2B Venture Capital? Take a Look at OpenView Venture Partners!Our Number One Content Marketing Secret – Use Freelancers! OpenView’s content marketing strategy has been built to provide value to our target audience of senior management teams at expansion stage companies. Like many other startup marketing teams, our small team is often tasked with doing more. How do we get more traffic to our site?…
Read Full Article about How To Find Great Freelancers Using CraigslistLast week I wrote about group buying services like Groupon, BuyWithMe and LivingSocial for small businesses and about some common reasons why your business’ social media following might be at a standstill and not growing. Check out Part I of my blog for a recap. This week, I will discuss two other social media questions:…
Read Full Article about Top Social Media Questions of Today’s Small Businesses (Part II)I’m starting to use Quora to find the most interesting questions that early stage software CEO’s have top of mind, at least when it comes to venture capital funding. Here’s another question I responded to on Quora. What questions do entrepreneurs want to ask venture investors most, but are too afraid to ask? Now I’m…
Read Full Article about Don’t be Afraid to Ask the VC Tough QuestionsPoor product strategy might be a cause of failed acquisition As a result of Google’s much publicized failed acquisition of fast-growing, group buying startup Groupon, Internet pundits are soul searching on Google’s recent inability to capture top startups. These startups include Facebook (according to certain rumor), Yelp and Twitter, just to name a few, despite…
Read Full Article about Google failed acquisitions – a product management perspectiveYes, it’s about that time of year for the annual office holiday party. We just had ours yesterday at OpenView Venture Partners and I have to say it was an absolute great time to take a step back and celebrate the success we had as a venture capital fund this year (both internally and with…
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