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Scott Maxwell

Scott Maxwell founded OpenView Venture Partners in 2006 and has worked in venture capital for over 13 years. For more insight from Scott, you can visit his blog and connect with him on Twitter @scottsnews.    

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Tien Anh Nguyen

Tien Anh Nguyen heads up the OpenView Research and Analytics team. He is focused on leading market and product strategy engagements in areas such as target segmentation, marketing operations management, and marketing channels research with portfolio companies and investment prospects.

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Devon McDonald

Devon McDonald is responsible for working directly with key stakeholders within OpenView’s portfolio to provide strategic guidance in the areas of sales, marketing, and influencer channel development, as well as operational efficiencies.

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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

Firas Raouf is a founding member of OpenView Venture Partners. He is a mentor to OpenView's Portfolio, an engaged board member, and plays an active role in investments. Connect with him on Twitter @fraouf.

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Brandon Hickie

Brandon Hickie works with OpenView's portfolio companies to develop business strategies and optimize market and product positioning by means of market research, market intelligence, and customer and marketing analytics. Connect with him on Twitter @bhickie.

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Diana Martz

Diana Martz is the Director of Talent for OpenView Venture Partners. She joined OpenView in 2009 and manages the firm's Talent team, which works with portfolio companies on high priority recruitment initiatives. In addition, Diana leads key searches for OpenView and its portfolio companies, works with leadership teams on recruitment strategy, and helps build overall talent pipeline.

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Jeremy Aber

Jeremy Aber consults the Portfolio on legal and contract matters.

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Ori Yankelev

Ori Yankelev works with our portfolio on sales and marketing initiatives.

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Nick Petri

Nick analyzes portfolio companies and their target markets to help them focus on opportunities for profitable growth.

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Lindsey Gurian

Lindsey Gurian recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio.

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Katy Smigowski

Katy Smigowski is responsible for recruiting initiatives for both the firm and its portfolio companies.

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Kevin Cain

Kevin is responsible for setting and executing OpenView’s content marketing strategy.

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Meghan Maher

Meghan Maher recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio Companies.

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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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Carlie Smith

Recruiter at OpenView & our portfolio companies.

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Jonathan Crowe

Jonathan Crowe is the Managing Editor of OpenView Labs. He focuses on executing OpenView’s content marketing strategy, developing and publishing the best content possible to help expansion-stage technology companies grow and succeed.

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Sudip Verma

Sudip works with portfolio companies to provide insights on the markets they operate in, their customers, and drive development of business strategies.

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Kevin Leary

Kevin Leary designs and develops everything that OpenView does online. He has helped companies around the globe establish a brand online. He's an open-source fanatic, and a well respected WordPress developer.

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Megan McNeill

Megan communicates with the firm’s portfolio and supports OpenView’s content marketing strategy.

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Ricky Pelletier

Ricky Pelletier works with other members of the investment team to evaluate and execute new investments.

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Nick Hammerschlag

Nick sources, analyzes and executes investments along with the other members of the investment team.

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Brian Carthas

Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Salima Ladha

Salima Ladha recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio Companies.

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Luis Fernandes

Luis Fernandes is responsible for helping OpenView and its portfolio companies build and grow integrated relationship marketing programs with prospects, customers, and key influencers. By working directly with sales and marketing stakeholders within OpenView’s portfolio, Luis helps implement programs and encourage best practices around distributing the most important messaging to the most targeted prospects, through the most appropriate channels, at the best times and frequency.

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Dan Lane

Daniel Lane helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Jonathan Kimmel

Jonathan works with the investment team to identify, evaluate, and invest in growing companies.

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Kim helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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OpenView Staff

OpenView Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on helping technology companies turn their vision into reality.

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Tag: ‘corporate strategy’

Enterprise Pricing Strategy: Optimize Your Prices to Power Growth

December 18, 2012 by

Enterprise Pricing Strategy: Optimize Your Prices to Power Growth

These five pricing strategy tweaks will make your pricing more attractive to customers.

The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection: The Lexus Brand Strategy

October 15, 2012 by

The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection: The Lexus Brand Strategy

Before Toyota launched the Lexus brand in 1989 few believed the automaker could gain in foothold in the largest and most competitive luxury car market in the world. To do so would take a keen understanding of the market and a relentless pursuit of perfection.

Is Your Corporate Culture Choking Your Revenue Potential?

June 8, 2012 by

Is Your Corporate Culture Choking Your Revenue Potential?

As a growing business, it’s critical to make sure your corporate culture supports the short and long-term strategies necessary to survive in your market.

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

May 4, 2012 by

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

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

Why You Should Be Trying to Fail, Not Trying to Be Perfect

April 4, 2012 by

Why You Should Be Trying to Fail, Not Trying to Be Perfect

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Striving for perfection will only limit your business to the same predictable results. Not only can you learn from failure, it opens the door for significant impact and growth.

SaaS Marketing: Win by Emphasizing the “Service”

March 30, 2012 by

SaaS Marketing: Win by Emphasizing the “Service”

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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…

Apple’s People Have Dented the Universe — Can You?

February 27, 2012 by

Apple’s People Have Dented the Universe — Can You?

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Can you gather a set of possible ideas, prioritize and experiment with them, and only implement the absolutely best ones?  Apple people sure can. If you want to  be great, you need to learn about all the possible relevant ideas that have worked for others. You need to create new ideas, blend, adapt and prioritize…

Time: The CEO’s most precious resource

February 20, 2012 by

Time: The CEO’s most precious resource

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In Ben Horowitz’s influential article on Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO, he quoted a very memorable line from Andy Grove, the legendary Intel CEO, who chastised a subordinate who came late for a meeting: “All I have in this world is time, and you are wasting my time.” Time is the CEO’s single most important and yet…

Why You Need a Superstar Market Data Analyst to Support Your Strategy Development

January 14, 2012 by

Why You Need a Superstar Market Data Analyst to Support Your Strategy Development

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Why hire a market data analyst? Recently, I fielded several requests from our portfolio companies in looking for potential support in market trends and data analysis. I wanted to know what the analyses are for, and whether they would be done on a regular basis. Turned out that a common scenario is happening across several…

Corporate Strategy: 2 New Year’s Resolutions to Become a More Strategic CEO

December 30, 2011 by

Corporate Strategy: 2 New Year’s Resolutions to Become a More Strategic CEO

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A few years ago I published my Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for CEOs.  The list is timeless and all CEOs would benefit by taking a look at the list and prioritizing what you should work on starting now.  That said, the list is operational in nature and you may be ready for a more…