Viewing Value eNewsletter March 31, 2010
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2nd edition of OpenView Venture Partners' weekly newsletter. Each week, we create and disseminate the best new ideas targeted at senior managers of expansion stage companies.
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Viewing Value eNewsletter March 31, 2010
- 1. To view this email as a web page, go here. Viewing Value March 31, 2010 Latest from the OpenView team The Ideal Path to Expansion Stage Growth I just got back from having lunch with a CEO of a Provo-based software company. It was a fascinating discussion. We were neck deep in talking about...read more. Goliath has Weaknesses - Exploit Them! As a Venture Capitalist who has been on the Microsoft Venture Capital Partner Advisory Committee for several years, I am a bit sad to see the recent press on innovation issues at Microsoft. That said, I wrote a blog series...read more. The Importance of Setting Goals Having clear, defined and agreed upon goals are very important to every team and every business. Each team should have their own goals that all help to contribute to the firms overarching goal...read more. News from the Industry How to Recruit Top Talent Hiring and retaining the best talent is as tough as it's ever been, with projections through 2012 indicating that, for the first time in U.S. history, the number of younger workers entering the labor market won't be enough to replace those who are leaving. By 2006, one in six workers will be over the age of 55, while the 25-to-34 demographic will have shrunk by nearly 9 percent, according to a study by the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers. Courtesy of: entrepreneur.com Just Getting Started? Focus on This to Get to the Next Level As strange as it might sound, the key to success in startups is not always knowing where you are in your revenue and profitability growth cycle. Instead, it's much more important to keep track of people, strategy and capital - and in that order. Understanding the strengths of your team - and your leaders in particular - allows you to build the details of your strategy that you can proactively manage. Courtesy of: venturebeat.com
- 2. Nature vs Nurture and Entrepreneurship I went down to Philly yesterday and spent the afternoon with students and faculty at Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs, the entity that administers the entrepreneurship major/courses at Wharton and runs a bunch of fantastic "outreach" programs like the Venture Initiation Program. WEP is run by Professor Raffi Amit and as we were making our way from one meeting to another, I said to Raffi that "you can't teach people to be entrepreneurs but you can teach entrepreneurs business." He replied to me that his research into the topic suggests that "there are no unique and defining characteristics of entrepreneurs" which leads him to believe that you can in fact teach people to be entrepreneurs. Courtesy of: avc.com Additional Resources Read more about our process. Learn about the Capability Maturity Model for Finance. Watch what we do and learn about the Labs. Meet the Team. News from the Portfolio. To learn more about OpenView Venture Partners, visit www.openviewpartners.com Read our latest blog posts at www.blog.openviewpartners.com