OpenView Helps Portfolio Companies Gain Marketing Focus and Insight

Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 21, 2014

OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture capital firm focused on providing its technology companies with deep operational support, shared today information about a marketing workshop it hosted for open data solutions provider Socrata. The details of the workshop are captured in a new case study entitled, “Going Off-Site to Gain Critical Marketing Focus and Insight.”

The three-day workshop held in Boston was designed to assess Socrata’s 2014 marketing objectives; analyze those goals to make sure they were focused, organized, and aligned with the company’s marketing activities; and prioritize initiatives in a way that would allow Socrata’s marketing team to maximize its impact. Socrata’s seven-member marketing team came from Seattle to attend the event.

“Socrata had all of the right pieces in place, it just needed to tighten its focus and optimize execution,” says OpenView’s Director of Growth Strategy Devon McDonald. “The workshop we put together was designed to ensure that everyone on the Socrata marketing team was on the same page, that the goals they set for themselves were specific and measurable, and that they had the right processes, technology, and focus in place to meet those objectives.”

“The workshop prompted everyone to open their minds to new ideas and processes, and develop a sense of trust and openness that would have otherwise been difficult to create,” said Socrata VP of Marketing Bill Glenn. “Going to Boston and working with OpenView’s team was a big part of that. Their people were so knowledgeable and transparent, and that encouraged my team to really open up about their concerns and challenges.”

To learn more about the workshop, download the complete case study.

About OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion-stage venture capital fund based in Boston that is focused on high-growth software, Internet, and technology-enabled companies. Through its staff of seasoned operating executives, who collectively bring several decades of technology and management experience to the firm, OpenView is able to help portfolio companies quickly optimize their product, go-to-market, and organizational and operational functions. Founded in 2006, the firm invests globally and has approximately $440 million in total capital under management.

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