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Scott Maxwell partners with management teams, boards, and investors to help build great companies.

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George enjoys partnering with companies and helping them achieve their goals through strategy, focus and operational execution.

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Brian works with our portfolio executive teams to deliver the highest impact value-add consulting services, primarily focused on go-to-market strategies.

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Brandon works with the portfolio companies to develop business strategies and optimize market and product positioning by means of market research, market intelligence, and customer and marketing analytics.

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Adam focuses on investing in and building companies in several sectors, including software, digital media and technology enabled businesses.

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Nick analyzes portfolio companies and their target markets to help them focus on opportunities for profitable growth.

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Er-Si An helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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

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Lindsey Gurian recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio.

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

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Brian Carthas helps to identify qualified investment opportunities for OpenView.

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

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Kevin Leary

Kevin Leary works with marketing and content managers at OpenView to design and build our online experiences.

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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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Jonathan focuses on executing OpenView’s content marketing strategy and processes.

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Twitter Influence: How to Maximize the Return on Your Tweeting Efforts

20 days ago by

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Last week, I wrote a blog post on How to Maximize the Return on Your Blogging Efforts. This week, I will share 11 tips to increase your twitter influence. Twitter influence is often misunderstood as simply having massive follower numbers. However, a large number of followers does not always translate well into large reader appeal…

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Top Web Design Influencers to Follow on Twitter

23 days ago by

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If you’re looking for web design inspiration, search no further. Here is a list of the top design influencers to follow on Twitter.

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Twitter Marketing: The 4-1-1 on Building Your Following

197 days ago by

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Tweet better, tweet often Did you know that there ‘s a limit to how many tweets you can post per day? As Lauren Dugan wrote not long ago on MediaBistro.com, the almighty Twitter cuts you off at 1,000 tweets (including retweeted content) to reduce the strain on its poor, over-worked servers. The good news, obviously,…

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Ready to Say ‘Twellow’ to More Twitter Followers?

283 days ago by

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I’ll admit it – I was a Twitter hater. A few years back, when the Ashton Kutchers of the world first started setting the Twitterverse ablaze, I remember rejecting my fellow colleagues’ proclamations that it was the next big thing. “What is it? Just Facebook status updates without the Facebook? Yeah that sounds cool…” “Who…

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Twitter Marketing Strategy: Twitter Follower Engagement Tips

295 days ago by

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Do you feel like you have a bunch of zombies following you that could care less about what you say on Twitter? Do your followers rarely “Retweet your Tweets” or “Mention” you in posts? If so, you are probably not engaging enough and you may need to rethink your Twitter Marketing Strategy. Don’t be alarmed…

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10 Twitter SEO Tips to Optimize Your Influence Marketing Strategy

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Did you know that your tweets appear in Google search results and are highly valued by its search algorithm? Consequently, optimizing your Twitter SEO strategy  can drive significant traffic to your web properties. So how can you improve the SEO value of your tweets? Below is a list of 10 Twitter SEO tips to think…

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The Dos and Don’ts of Twitter

341 days ago by

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Weiner -- this ones for you.

In light of the recent string of social media mishaps – namely one Anthony Weiner, who was trying to send a racy self portrait via “direct message,” but instead sent it to his thousands of followers - I’d like to spend the following words on what the dos and don’ts of Twitter are. In full disclosure,…

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B2B Social Media: 3 Reasons You SHOULDN’T Link Twitter and LinkedIn

449 days ago by

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One of my biggest pet peeves is having my LinkedIn stream taken up by 2-3 individuals’ tweets (My peers at OpenView Venture Partners can attest to this…I complain about it often). LinkedIn gives you the option to link your accounts, but this decision shouldn’t be taken lightly. Here are my top 3 reasons you SHOULDN’T link Twitter and…

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Twitter Stats: A Usage Graph Instead of Thousand Words

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Twitter is one of the most widely used social networking websites on the Internet. It has around 75 million users that tweet for different reasons. What was initially meant to help friends update each other on their status, has become one of the most widely used tools for promotion of news, trends, products, people. Onlineschools.org…

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Top Twitter Resources – Tips for Using Twitter for Business

787 days ago by

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Earlier this week, I blogged about Twitter’s birthday. In this post I wanted to provide some directional and operational support for getting a successful Twitter account started for your business. Mashable has created a Twitter Guidebook, a resource full of multiple blog posts about the microblogging platform. The guidebooks walks you through the basics for creating…

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