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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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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lessons from Boise, Idaho

February 2, 2013 by

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lessons from Boise, Idaho

Boise can boast it is the birthplace of two of the largest airlines in the United States. Here are three entrepreneurship and innovation lessons from its early aviation pioneers.

The Importance of Saying “No” in Business (and Explaining Why Not)

November 12, 2012 by

The Importance of Saying “No” in Business (and Explaining Why Not)

Despite what many “yes men” would have you believe, giving “no” for an answer is perfectly acceptable. In fact, it could just save your company.

7 Entrepreneurial Lessons Learned from the Pop Warner Gridiron

October 24, 2012 by

7 Entrepreneurial Lessons Learned from the Pop Warner Gridiron

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Since the second week of August, my 8-year-old son has dedicated an inordinate amount of time to one thing: football.  This Sunday, he’ll wrap up his second year of Pop Warner football. And while there have been a lot of highs and lows since the team first got together for agilities week in the hot…

People Are Your Only Sustainable Strategic Advantage

September 5, 2012 by

People Are Your Only Sustainable Strategic Advantage

Regardless of how great your products and ideas are, your people ultimately build, sell, and support them. The world’s best companies are able to continuously recruit and retain outstanding people and cultivate employee loyalty.

10 Entrepreneur Leadership Lessons from My 25-Year Software Career

July 25, 2012 by

10 Entrepreneur Leadership Lessons from My 25-Year Software Career

In this new blog series I will share 10 specific business philosophies and entrepreneur leadership lessons gleaned from a 25-year career in software.

5 Entrepreneurship Lessons You Won’t Learn in B-School

July 3, 2012 by

5 Entrepreneurship Lessons You Won’t Learn in B-School

As an economics major and the son of a business school professor, I’ve been immersed in theoretical business for much of my life. Oligopolies, Game Theory, and Competitive Advantage have been popular topics of conversation at the Petri household’s dinner table since I was in a high-chair. But what I’ve discovered in the past 5…