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Scott Maxwell, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

Jeremy Aber

Jeremy Aber consults the Portfolio on legal and contract matters.

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Ori Yankelev, OpenView Venture Partners

Ori Yankelev

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

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Nick Petri, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

Lindsey Gurian

Lindsey Gurian is a Senior Talent Specialist responsible for recruiting initiatives at both the firm and its portfolio companies. Connect with her on Twitter @lindseygurian.

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Katy Smigowski, OpenView Venture Partners

Katy Smigowski

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

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Kevin Cain, OpenView Venture Partners

Kevin Cain

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

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Meghan Maher, OpenView Venture Partners

Meghan Maher

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

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Adam Marcus, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

Carlie Smith

Recruiter at OpenView & our portfolio companies.

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Sudip Verma, OpenView Venture Partners

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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Jonathan Crowe, OpenView Venture Partners

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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Kevin Leary, OpenView Venture Partners

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, OpenView Venture Partners

Megan McNeill

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

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Ricky Pelletier, OpenView Venture Partners

Ricky Pelletier

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

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Luis Fernandes, OpenView Venture Partners

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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Salima Ladha, OpenView Venture Partners

Salima Ladha

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

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Nick Hammerschlag, OpenView Venture Partners

Nick Hammerschlag

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

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Brian Carthas, OpenView Venture Partners

Brian Carthas

Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Dan Lane, OpenView Venture Partners

Dan Lane

Daniel Lane helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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Jonathan Kimmel, OpenView Venture Partners

Jonathan Kimmel

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

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 , OpenView Venture Partners

Kim helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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OpenView Staff, OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Staff

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

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Alex Flores, OpenView Venture Partners

Alex Flores

Alex is a social media intern at OpenView Labs. He is a communications major at Boston College entering his senior year.

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Tag: ‘Lost Customer Research’

At-Risk Customer Profiling: A Tool to Boost Customer Retention

September 10, 2012 by

Risk Profiling

Over the last several weeks, I have been writing about how to plan-out, set-up, and execute a one-time or recurring lost customer research project. In this series, I’ve discussed the importance of setting-up an automated lost customer survey to track trends in the reasons for these losses. This week, I will share how your company…

How to Determine Minimum Sample Size Needs: Lost Customer Research

September 5, 2012 by

Sample Size Estimation

Last week, I shared a pair of lost customer survey and in-depth interview invitation templates. This week, I will provide a process to determine minimum sample size needs for your lost customer research project. Why is it important to determine minimum sample size needs? Resources are limited within all organizations, so being able to identify…

Lost Customer Survey Invitation Template

August 28, 2012 by

customer survey invitation

Last week, I shared 10 automated lost customer survey design tips. This week, I will share an example of an automated lost customer survey invitation and an in-depth lost customer interview invitation. These templates are set up for easy conversion into a mail merge template in case your company does not have a CRM set…

10 Automated Lost Customer Survey Design Tips

August 20, 2012 by

Automated Lost Customer Survey Design Tips

Last week, I shared 4 tips to consider when setting-up an automated lost customer survey in SalesForce. This week, I will share 10 automated lost customer survey design tips. Below are 10 survey design tips for building an effective automated lost customer survey: Ask all of your lost customers to complete an automated lost customer…

6 Lost Customer Research Question Types

August 6, 2012 by

Lost Customer Research Question Types

Over the last 2 weeks, I have written a series of blog posts on project planning and research design factors to consider when setting-up a lost customer research project. In this post, I will share six commonly used lost customer research question types. The types of questions that you choose to ask your lost customers…

Lost Customer Research: 7 Research Design Factors to Consider

July 30, 2012 by

Research Design Word Cluster

Last week, I wrote a blog post on six lost customer research project planning tips. This week, I will share seven research design factors your company should also consider in planning out and setting up a lost customer research initiative. 1) Phone surveys have substantially higher response rates than online surveys, so they are a…

Lost Customer Research: 6 Project Planning Tips

July 24, 2012 by

Crossroads of Planning and Strategy

Last week, I wrote a blog post on five facts your company should consider when determining whether or not a lost customer research project is a worthwhile investment of your resources. This week, I will share six lost customer research project planning tips. Before launching a lost customer research initiative, you should come up with…

Lost Customer Research: 5 Business Benefits

July 16, 2012 by

Lost Customer Research Insights

Last week, I wrote a blog post on five facts your company should consider when determining whether or not a lost customer research project is a worthwhile investment of your resources.  This week, I will share five business benefits of launching a lost customer research initiative. Improving your company’s understanding of its former customers will…

Lost Customer Research: 5 Facts to Consider Before Launching Initiative

July 10, 2012 by

Number 5 Pool Table

Last week, I wrote a blog post on what lost customer research is, why it is a useful market research tool, and when companies should consider launching this type of initiative. This week, I will share five facts your company should consider when determining whether or not a lost customer research project is a worthwhile…

Lost Customer Research: What Is It and When Is It Necessary

June 29, 2012 by

Lost Customer Research

Blog post explaining when and why a company should consider launching a lost customer research initiative.