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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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Kim helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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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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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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Sales Incentives Strategy: Elephant Hunting or Bread and Butter Deals?

August 7, 2012 by

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Young enterprise technology companies struggle with selling to big and small accounts at the same time. Refining sales compensation and sales incentives will help this tremendously.

“We Aren’t Closing Deals, My Lead Qual Team Must Suck!” Come Again?

July 30, 2012 by

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Having trouble closing deals? Before you blame your lead qual team for something out of its control let’s take a look at these key factors.

OpenView’s Lead Qualification Management Workshop: A Success!

July 24, 2012 by

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Last week, OpenView hosted a Lead Qualification Management Workshop, featuring insightful presenters and an engaging dialogue on lead qualification’s biggest challenges and opportunities.

Sales Force Compensation: Challenges of Growth

July 23, 2012 by

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Sales compensation models at expansion-stage companies face three distinct challenges that can adversely affect its short term revenue and long term growth.

3 Concepts Every Outbound Prospecting Manager Needs to Understand

July 16, 2012 by

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Here are three concepts that are key to helping the outbound prospecting manager drive performance from the outbound prospecting team.

Career Growth Ideas for a Lead Qualification Rep

July 13, 2012 by

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Your all-star lead qualification rep has been in her role for coming on a year now, and she’s starting to get the inevitable “itch.” What do you do to make sure you don’t lose her?

Using Leads and Contacts in Salesforce.com

July 12, 2012 by

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Many users in B2B sales environments struggle with the concept of distinguishing leads and contacts in salesforce.com.

Leads vs. Contacts in Salesforce.com

July 9, 2012 by

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In my previous post on Using Leads and Contacts in Salesforce.com I gave a somewhat simplistic explanation of the distinction between leads vs. contacts in salesforce.com. When deciding between junk leads and qualified prospects the decision is pretty easy because it’s black and white. Unfortunately, the world is almost never truly black and white, and some…

Enabling, Encouraging, and Shielding: The Role of an Outbound Prospecting Manager

July 6, 2012 by

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Outbound prospecting managers need to focus on three critical goals to keep their reps motivated and productive.

3 Things a Salesforce.com Admin Should Always Keep In Mind

June 30, 2012 by

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The role of salesforce.com admin comes with many different challenges and requires individuals to keep these three key things in mind.