How did Google decide to develop Google Drive instead of purchasing Dropbox? The answers may impact your startup’s chances of acquisition one day.
Read Full Article about Google’s Dilemma: Buy Dropbox or Build Google Drive?You’re ready to begin scaling your business. You’ve identified a need for talent. You’ve just received venture capital funding. You are ready to hire! Wait. Maybe… If you’re a new hiring manager, or just recently started your own business, you may be asking yourself…”Where do I even begin?” The first order of business is of…
Read Full Article about Ready to Hire? A Quick Guide to Setting Your Recruitment StrategyOne of the main facets of recruiting that I struggle with the most is rejecting candidates. It pains me! I haven’t quite gotten to that level of indifference where I don’t feel anything when I crush someone’s dreams. I really do care about my candidates! Especially the ones I’ve headhunted and sought out specifically for…
Read Full Article about You’re Not the One – But Can We Still Be Friends?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 It(Editor’s Note: Like this post? You might also be interested in our free report, Up-and-Coming Hot Spots for Venture Capital) As a nice follow-up to my older blog post that discusses the best cities to launch a startup, today we’ll go over cities with the most growth and employment opportunities in the technology space. In…
Read Full Article about Where Are The Tech Jobs?Despite having spent 30+ years in the software industry where innovation, disruption and creative ideas are recipes for success, I am always looking for ways to think about improving businesses from all industry sources — ideas that I can share with OpenView Partner’s portfolio company CEO’s and management teams to help them build great companies.…
Read Full Article about Innovation Lessons from the WSJ’s Entrepreneurship ContestOver the course of a given quarter I will actively engage with a long list of entrepreneurs to discuss their business and fundraising objectives. These initial conversations are, in many instances, OpenView’s first touch point with some of the most exciting, high-growth startups in the software and tech world. A lot can be learned from…
Read Full Article about First Date: How VCs and Startups Can Score in Investment CourtshipOpenView Partners was founded with the belief that great business concepts exist outside the tech Meccas of Boston, New York City, and the Silicon Valley. At OpenView, we look for expansion stage software companies with great founders, innovative products and solid management teams all over the world in which to invest growth capital. We focus…
Read Full Article about For Venture Capital, Silicon Valley Zip Code Not RequiredLast week, it was my privilege to hear Jeff Gothelf, a user experience designer at TheLadders.com, give an insightful presentation at a Lean Startup Circle Meetup in Cambridge. User Experience (UX for short) is the high-level architecture that goes into the creation of websites, attempting to make them as intuitive and effective as possible for…
Read Full Article about Lean Isn’t Just for StartupsI just finished watching great TED talk by Kathryn Schulz on Being Wrong. Go ahead and watch it now… It starts slow, but bear with me. It has an important message. Pay close attention to her slide on the “series of unfortunate assumption.” Brilliant! As I listened to her, I reflected on how her talk…
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