This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’ve made over 100 investments in my career and nearly half of those went into diverse teams. You can tell when a founder has a goto set of people in their network to ask all the dumb, remedial questions about hiring, fundraising, deal doing, PR, etc. It also provides a built-in set of advisors that can be called upon along the way.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

Think of vision as your organization’s North Star it guides your team, especially when times get tough. It’s not just about hitting targets; it’s about giving your team a purpose they can believe in. Jim Collins found a surprising answer: a clear, compelling vision. Does it feel motivating?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Two entrepreneurs share their experiences building a strong team followed by an outline of key areas to know. While great ideas can be the catalyst for success, the team behind the idea truly drives a startup forward. The right team can make all the difference between slow and fast growth, even between success and failure.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

This ties in nicely with a concept I often teach my students about Features vs Benefits. Establish clear definitions: Responsibilities: Outcomes you own Objectives: Benefits the organization needs to achieve Tasks: Activities that help reach objectives As I tell founders: “No one actually cares about the to-dos.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

That’s a tell you feel uncomfortable talking about your MRR. The Pile-On Often team members step on each others’ toes to jump in and add information that was already provided. Both reflect poorly on the CEO and management team who lose credibility appearing out of sync or not in control. Overlapping answers don’t help.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

These are exactly the traps Collins warns about: when leaders become comfortable with the status quo, they miss the signals that change is needed. In our next post, we’ll explore how focusing on responsibility rather than tasks creates more ownership and initiative within teams.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I have written extensively on this blog over the last decade and a half about the significant negative consequences that the two large mobile operating systems have on distribution of software. Our team is planning to submit a formal request for Apple to allow its users to earn crypto and see a list of decentralized finance apps.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

When Leaders Grow, Teams Follow In BE 2.0 , Jim Collins emphasizes a powerful truth: organizations can only grow as much as their leaders do. When they resist change, their teams inevitably stagnate. Get Specific About the Gap Ask clarifying questions: “What would success look like in this area?” I chose the latter.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Beyond Just Setting Big Goals A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) isn’t just about thinking biggerit’s about forcing yourself to innovate when the current way of doing things won’t get you there. In our next post, we’ll explore how trust enables teams to take the risks needed for breakthrough thinking.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Assemble a Strong and Talented Team Steve Jobs offers another quote about the importance of having the right people around you. They’re done by a team of people.” Building a team of talented and passionate individuals who complement your skills will bring a different and necessary perspectives to the table.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I reached out to about 15-20 other investors, of which about half were interested in taking a meeting. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? It’s the “hook” that gets a team noticed in a partner meeting. because the round quickly filled up.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Check out the previous post about how luck favors persistence. Jim Collins takes this further: culture doesn’t just influence strategyit becomes your strategy. ” became a powerful filter for future decisionsone that every team member could use without needing executive approval. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Déborah spoke with the YLAI Network about her journey transforming theater in Peru, the way in which her diagnosis provided her with creative understanding, and her advice to create more inclusive organizations. After seeing the success of this play, she decided to expand her research with her team to create a long-form play.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve. Wait, What About Yves? She’s empathetic and brings great humor to her work as well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

As entrepreneurs transition and adjust to changes the pandemic caused in their companies, how can they build—or rebuild—not only a business but also a team of like-minded individuals with a common purpose or goal? We have to think not only about what we do daily, but also what kind of human beings we are. as well as your company’s.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2020

The team can report to a group of leaders and, as appropriate, present best practices and policies to the entire organization. Ask about increasing the frequency and check that the products being used are recommended for tackling emerging viral pathogens. Potential Protection Measures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2021

EO members heard first-hand about Magic’s challenges and the journey to propel his company to the status of No. Leaders must know how to get the best from their teams. A lot of teams think they can coast in practice and then turn it on in games, but it doesn’t work that way,” Magic shared. It’s all about accountability!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A few weeks ago, I wrote about NYC’s Tech Resurgence. USV TEAM POSTS: I observed that NYC continues to develop as one of the world’s leading centers of tech innovation. And then yesterday, I saw this tweet : NYC startups are getting funded at 2/3 the rate of Silicon Valley startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2022

But there are downsides as well: Namely, the way we communicate between departments and teams in remote and hybrid environments has built bigger silos. With everyone working in the same place, there are more chances for employees to interact organically and communicate with coworkers outside of their teams.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We developed a friendship as part of our Board service and a recent blog post of his made me think I wanted to learn a bit more about his Instacart experience. My wife and I were thinking about starting a family, we were happily living in Toronto, and I did not have the risk appetite to leave a secure job to join a startup.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

Communication complexity increases exponentially with team size, creating natural breaking points in management structures 3. Combine honesty with grit : Be ruthlessly honest about reality while maintaining the persistence to overcome challenges. Team Building Anatomy of a Reference Check : Then get out of their way.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As a business consultant, I saw senior leaders shift their teams to fully remote work when, prior to the pandemic, they only allowed flexible schedules on an individually earned basis. Be deliberate about establishing one-on-one connections. These are meetings for employees, so focus on what they want to talk about.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 1, 2022

They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. USV TEAM POSTS: Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY’s tech sector. To that end, they launched a valuable resource last month called Innovation Indicators.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

He didn’t try to have any type of work-life balance , as he felt that he needed to “lead by example” and outwork his team each day. He began to seriously panic when he realized he had a team of 40 to support. This will help them enable their teams to do the same. This was before any government support was offered.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2023

Does the VC think that a designer needs to be on the team from day one if you’re going to build a better version of Instagram? There are, however, legitimate concerns that a VC might have with your team generally that the presence of co-founders might solve, but doesn’t always. Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

We both showered in the last 24 hours, which is a major moral victory for the team. I would propose that early stage startups start thinking about doing something radically different—think about trying to become the absolute best place to work if you have a family as a means of getting an advantage in the hiring market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We asked Eden about the similarities between entrepreneurship and crisis public relations. The group was complaining about their various bosses, an upcoming reorg they felt was handled poorly, and the breakdown in how company expectations for their departments were being communicated. It’s all about managing perceptions.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Oct 10, 2020 Innovation Upends Extrapolation: Urbanization. It feels like positive change is happening.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Tell us a bit about Sanzo and how it was founded? That said, I knew nothing about this industry. I’m a Sanzo drinker. I’m also a Sanzo angel investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. It’s just math.

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