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Dev Ittycheria Joins OpenView Venture Partners
Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 13, 2013
OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture capital firm focused on providing technology companies with deep operational support, today welcomes enterprise software expert Dev Ittycheria as the firm’s third Managing Director. Ittycheria joins the firm after a successful track record of building and scaling world-class software companies as a founder, CEO, senior executive, investor, and board member. He will concentrate on helping identify and invest in the best expansion-stage technology companies.
“We are thrilled to welcome Dev to the OpenView team,” said Scott Maxwell, OpenView’s Founder and Senior Managing Director. “His strong background in entrepreneurship, combined with his deep operational experience and his knowledge of cloud, SaaS, and enabling IT infrastructure, will make Dev a very valuable addition to the firm.”
Prior to joining OpenView, Ittycheria was a venture partner at Greylock Partners, where he spent time learning the venture business at the leading early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Earlier, Ittycheria was the president of BMC Software, where he and his team radically transformed a maturing business to outperform the competition on all meaningful financial metrics. Before that, as the co-founder, president, and CEO, Ittycheria built BladeLogic, a next-generation systems management company, into one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies of the last decade. The company went public in 2007 and was acquired by BMC in 2008. Ittycheria was also previously a co-founder and CEO of one of the first venture-backed cloud computing companies.
In addition to identifying new investments at OpenView, Ittycheria will also leverage his operational and leadership skills to help the firm scale for the next level of growth.
“I’m very excited to join OpenView,” said Ittycheria. “It’s a dynamic firm that has done a terrific job of differentiating itself in the industry because of its sharp focus on expansion-stage technology companies and unique team of full-time, value-add consultants. I believe OpenView is extremely well positioned to dominate an important investment category over the coming years.”
Ittycheria’s arrival continues the ongoing expansion of OpenView’s investment team. In August, the firm also welcomed Mackey Craven as an Associate from Bessemer Venture Partners, followed by Blake Bartlett, who joined as a Vice President from Battery Venture Partners in November. The team’s growth underscores the firm’s strong belief in the future of enterprise SaaS businesses.
Founded in 2006, OpenView raised its third fund in March 2012 and has since invested in five new SaaS companies. This week, the firm also launched a completely redesigned version of its website, available at http://www.openviewpartners.com.
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 $ 445 million in total capital under management.
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Starting a Handyman Business – Checklist
Starting a handyman business does not take a lot of money. However if people are going to take you seriously or if you plan on being in business for longer than just a few months, there are many things you need to do to start your business.
Here is a checklist to get you thinking about the steps you need to take to start your handyman business.
1. It all begins with you: The very first step you should take is making sure that you really want to own your own business. No matter what type of business you are starting, you really have to want to be a business owner.
2. Pick a name for your business and decide how you will set up your handyman business. Will you be a sole proprietor? A LLC? A regular corporation? You will probably need to consult with and accountant and an attorney to make sure you choose the best entity for you.
3. Research what type of insurance you will need. There are many different types of insurance you may need, for instance, workers compensation, generally liability, and commercial insurance for the vehicle you will be using. Be sure to check with your state to see what they require. Also remember to check with the municipalities in area.
4. Research what type of business licenses you will need. Does the municipality you live in require a business license? What about and electrical or plumbing license? Does your state require any type of license? Make sure you know what you need before you open your doors.
5. Research your customers. Make sure you know who your target customers are and what it is that they need. Will you specialize? An example of this would be targeting senior citizens, real estate agents, and landlords.
6. Research your competitors. Make sure you know what they are doing well and what they are not doing well. What’s not being offered, that is needed, that you could offer.
7. Based on your research decide what services you are going to offer, the price you will charge, then how you will advertise your service.
8. Make sure you have the necessary tools. Be sure that you have the basic tools for the services that you will be offering, however do not go overboard purchasing the fancy stuff. Remember a lot of larger tools can be rented, until you are doing enough work to justify the purchase.
9. Make a plan. Put the above into a business plan to keep you organized and on track.
Follow this check list before you start your handyman business to make sure you are starting out as strong as possible and to help make your new business a success.
Denise Mense is the founder of Cash In On Repair where you can get valuable information about how to start a handyman business You may also download a free report on how to obtain customers at: http://www.cashinonrepair.com
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Project Management and Project Management Services
The success of a Project is made possible through a structured project management step with the help of a professional and skilled project management services. Both are the most basic but important factors to consider in the realization of most projects. We have to consider the primary challenge of project management which is to achieve the goals and objectives considering the preconceived constraints such as budget, time and scope. It’s about taking manageable risks.
The most important step is to understand the project thoroughly. With a set of organized goals, objectives, sufficient time and financial plan, a project can be made feasible! There are so many things to consider because a failed project can lead to loss of revenues and opportunities, failure to achieve business goals or perhaps business failure. Anyone who invests in a certain project would not want failure but would ensure that his investment would be profitable. With these in mind, anyone would make sure he has the right person in the right position but then again it is all about taking manageable risks. In anything we do, we always consider the risks that are inevitable, but, with the best project management services all will be well.
There are few things that I would like to share about taking manageable risks in project management services. One are the commitment. There should be commitment of management to ensure that the stakeholders and the people who will benefit from the project will be able to sustain. This is to provide assurance that if the project becomes more critical to business performance, the management would take the risk and provide preventive actions for improvement.
Second is to have a written plan, a feasibility study. This should include the number of people involved, the time frame of the project, the limitation of the resources, the person responsible and the allocated finances.
Before someone takes the risk of investing a certain business, it is important to know the expected consumer that could afford to avail what your business offers. Third is defining scope, goals and objectives. This should be more specific and predefined to know what processes and business areas are affected. Fourth is to encourage teamwork. A typical projects involved lots of people, including technical staff, end users/costumers, contractors, financial and administrative staff. Project management, project management services is our great partner.
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Tynker Launches World's First At-home Visual Programming Course for Elementary and Middle School Students
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) August 06, 2013
Tynker (http://www.Tynker.com), a leading education startup that enables schools and teachers to help children develop programming skills and computational thinking using a visual approach, today announced the introduction of Tynker™ for Home. Tynker for Home follows the highly successful introduction of Tynker™ for Schools in April of this year. To date, hundreds of schools and thousands of teachers have used Tynker for School in their classrooms to help students create animated stories, physics games, math-based art and more.
“Teachers and parents alike share our vision of enabling children to learn programming so they can become makers for the digital age,” said Krishna Vedati, Founder and CEO of Tynker, “Since launching Tynker for Schools to unprecedented demand, the most common request from students and parents was for a version of Tynker that could be accessed at home. So we significantly advanced our release schedule and are introducing Tynker for Home so kids can begin discovering and learning programming skills in their own homes and share their pursuits in real-time with their parents.”
The at-home edition of Tynker is built on the same visual programming platform as Tynker for Schools, but designed specifically to make self-paced learning at home easy and engaging for children. To launch Tynker for Home, the company partnered with Dave McFarland, author of several programming books from O’Reilly including the highly popular “The Missing Manual” series for Javascript and CSS. Working with Tynker, McFarland created an Introduction to Programming course that children will find challenging and fun to work through. The course’s 16 chapters are filled with self-guided lessons, puzzles, tutorials, quizzes, challenge missions and training videos.
Parents can enroll their children into the Introduction to Programming course at http://www.Tynker.com. The completely self-paced course is designed for children in fourth through eighth grades and costs $ 50 per student. The course never expires, and tuition also includes unlimited use of the Tynker Workshop—Tynker’s unique programming platform, game design tools, character gallery and multi-media library, with more than 5,000 sounds, animations, images and scenes.
The Introduction to Programming course covers basic programming concepts: creating scenes, playing sounds, moving characters, conditionals and repetition, animation, handling keyboard and mouse events, pen drawing, collision detection, keeping score and more. Students are introduced to the concepts in an interactive framework with narration, videos, guided tutorials and projects. Students are also encouraged to innovate and build their own projects, and are assessed when they solve coding puzzles and take quizzes during the course. When students complete the course, they can keep experimenting and using the Tynker platform to program additional apps and games, building on the skills they learned in the course.
“When my 8-year-old excitedly pulled me to the computer last evening and showed me the projects he has created on Tynker, I was totally blown away!” said Brian Guan, parent of a child in the Palo Alto School District. “Being a geek dad, I’ve always wanted to teach my boys how to program, but was afraid that it was too soon. So when I saw my son build a project right in front of me, my jaw dropped. Thanks, Tynker, for showing us this wonderful tool!”
About Tynker
Tynker helps children develop programming and computational thinking skills in a fun, intuitive and imaginative way. Tynker builds a strong foundation in STEM skills (science, technology, engineering and math) and other critical thinking abilities, preparing children for 21st century degrees, careers and lives. Tynker’s innovative visual programming language, interactive self-paced tutorials, and the engaging Tynker Workshop empower children to create complex and creative projects.
Tynker was founded by a seasoned team of technology entrepreneurs who realized what they wanted most now was to give children the critical life skills of design thinking and programming, to become makers for the technologies of tomorrow. Tynker is based in Mountain View, CA and is backed by 500 Startups, Cervin Ventures, Felicis Ventures, GSV Capital, NEA, New School Ventures, and prominent angel investors.
Additional Quotes About Tynker
“Tynker has become one of the most popular activities in my technology curriculum,” said Don Fitz-Roy, Director of Computing at WNS Schools. “Children share what they have learned. The addition of a simple physics engine is a welcome addition for budding game designers. I have seen my students motivated like never before.”
“We believe at the Children’s Creativity Museum that the success of the next generation hinges not only on what they know,” said Michael Nobleza, Executive Director of the Children’s Creativity Museum, San Francisco, “but also on their ability to think and act creatively. Tynker’s interactive and engaging products foster the kind of creative thinking that today’s youth need to be successful as tomorrow’s technological innovators.”
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