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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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Salima Ladha

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

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Brian Carthas

Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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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: ‘SEO’

Are newsletters hurting your page rank in Google?

May 31, 2011 by

UPDATE! 06/01/11 It looks like Jake’s article (referenced below) is making some waves. Google’s Matt Cutts is now disputing the claim that email plays any role in Google’s ranking algorithm. You can check out the comment section of the original article to see what Matt has to say (and the skepticism that followed his comments). He’s…

Four (free) ways to build backlinks for SEO

May 25, 2011 by

Four (free) ways to build backlinks for SEO

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There’s no way around it – backlinks matter. But as SEO practices go, building quality backlinks ranks among the most difficult to pull off. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most important page rank factors for search engines like Google. Essentially, backlinks are created any time an external website posts a link pointing back to…

Reposted vs. repurposed content – what’s the difference?

May 12, 2011 by

Repurposing content is a key component of any good online marketing strategy. But some marketers new to the content game at times confuse repurposing with reposting (in fact, some editorial professionals do as well). Understanding the difference, however, is important to delivering a positive reader experience and building trust with potential customers and search engines…

Meta descriptions: The best SEO technique that’s not really SEO

April 26, 2011 by

One of the things that drives me crazy about search engine optimization these days is how people tend to focus so much on the “advanced” tricks and techniques that they begin to overlook the basics. Case in point: meta descriptions seem to be dying a slow and painful death. For those unfamiliar, meta descriptions are…

B2B Social Media: Optimizing Flickr for SEO

March 7, 2011 by

Most people who use Flickr probably don’t care about the SEO implications, but if you are in charge of B2B Social media at your organization, it should be on your to-do list (it is currently on mine!). By following these 4 steps, you can ensure that all of your corporate photos will perform better in…

SEO on a Budget Is Possible

July 6, 2010 by

SEO on a Budget Is Possible

More SEO Tools that won’t cost you an arm and a leg A few weeks ago, I discussed a bunch of new SEO/SEM tools that represented  the evolution of search marketing. I also mentioned a new change in Google search ranking algorithm that might require webmasters to optimize the site loading time. To continue in this vein,…