A lot of growing businesses face a common issue as they advance past the early stages of their development: How can they accelerate growth while concurrently improving distribution efficiencies? In other words, how can they build a business with capital efficiency? Or, better yet, what kinds of things does an expanding company need to do…
Read Full Article about Can a Growing Company Grow Faster While Spending Less? (Part 1)I was checking out a few blogs this week and I read Phillip Morettini’s (Morettini on Management) blog post titled, “Flattening of The Growth Curve” that I thought I would pass on. In the post, Philip discusses how you can try to boost your companies growth when it starts to slow down. He talks about…
Read Full Article about CEOs: Looking to Boost Your Slowing Growth? Try These IdeasYou wouldn’t know it, but it’s only been four weeks since Jeremy Lin played his first NBA game. His Cinderella story has overwhelmed the social media landscape and he has displaced Tebow as the new darling of Sportscenter. If you don’t know Lin’s story already, you can catch up by reading this New York Times article. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes…
Read Full Article about Where in Your World is Jeremy Lin?Earlier this week, I watched Alex Osterwalder introduce his Business Model Canvas to a group of avid listeners at MIT’s Legatum center and walked away from his presentation wishing that more Entrepreneurs used it. Osterwalder’s Canvas asks managers to think about their business model in the way that I think about it as a potential…
Read Full Article about The Business Model Canvas: What It Is and Why You Need ItFour years ago, in early 2008, as the world’s economies gyrated in the deepest crisis since the Great Depression, a group of OpenView’s team members packed up our boxes, cleaned out our desks and left the building on 303 Congress Street. We went down the street and established ourselves in a half-finished office space on…
Read Full Article about How Do OpenView Labs Work with Portfolio Companies?This is the first in a series of posts that I am writing aimed at helping entrepreneurs maximize their economic performance. You can find a summary of the economic model series here. Business Economic Model Defined A business economic model describes how your business works from an economic perspective. Simply put, it describes how the…
Read Full Article about Economic Model Series, Part 1: What is a Business Economic Model?As a venture capital associate, I’m privileged to speak with entrepreneurs every day about their businesses. In over three years of conversations, I’ve had the chance to speak with all kinds of founders. I’ve spoken with CEOs of varying ages (from the kid who started his business in his dorm room to the 75-year-old third-generation…
Read Full Article about 10 Concepts Many Successful Entrepreneurs Have MasteredBack in my days of investment management, I found it incredibly interesting to psychoanalyze the various people whose job it is to manage boatloads of other peoples’ money. For instance, some managers have extreme difficulty selling a losing position, even when their rationale behind buying it in the first place has proved disastrously incorrect. Such…
Read Full Article about Are You Married to Your Startup’s Business Model? Time to Pivot (Part 1)At OpenView Lab’s Content Marketing workshop this week, the speaker reminded me of a great talk by Simon Sinek at the TED Conference in September 2009 (posted in May 2010). In his talk (and book/blog) Simon preaches that people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. Think about that for a moment.…
Read Full Article about Company Leaders — Can You Answer the Question WHY?For those of you who follow OpenView you know we are a Boston-based Venture capital firm that invests growth capital in expansion stage software companies. We are an operationally focused team who have all been to the movie before when it comes to building great software companies. Our belief is it is not about the…
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