Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Greg Satell was interviewed on the You Are Not So Smart podcast (excellent, highly recommended) about his book Cascades. Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) to achieve lasting impact.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They originally pitched us with a hacked but super productive prototype they built in their fraternity room and a rendering of a beautiful bookshelf sized in-home growing system that they committed to building. One of the first bets we made in Agtech was Grove started by two young, passionate engineers out of MIT – Gabe and Jamie.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

One of most fascinating & enjoyable books on the topic is Bill Bryson’s “ Made in America ,” which demystifies the origins of the English language and why Americans speak more traditional English than the English do. (I I know, I know … just read the book). My kids are growing up in Los Angeles in 2013.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 13, 2020

Anyone who’s run an accelerator, a grant program, reviewed book/screenplay manuscripts, or been in charge of hiring has an impossible challenge: how do you find the proverbial needle in the haystack? I don’t want unlucky people working in this department. The answer is usually some variation on, “start sifting.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

My GSEA experience provided the opportunity to refine my pitch and really understand what problems and cultural challenges people face when exploring cities. KOMPAS aims to help people explore the city where they live or are visiting, and integrate with people of all backgrounds and cultures. What inspires you most?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It’s too simplistic to believe that cities can leave our lives, disappear from culture or bid away relevance. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about pitch deck teardowns and artificial intelligence. Read the entire analysis here and remember: If you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TC+, here’s more information.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

The Greek and party culture is changing. I think you’ll find that, going forward, more and more students are going to want their college extracurricular life to be all about the culture you can find in a city, or another country, community service or about work-study programs versus some kind of amusement park in a bubble.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In i2e1, though I was hired as a UX designer, I collaborated with other teammates and took care of the branding, print design, offline and online marketing collaterals, marketing strategy, pitch presentations, and more. All are one In India, an open-door policy and flat hierarchy are the gifts of startup culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture. But over the past 8 years, the platform has expanded to handle various aspects of desk booking, room reservation and guest management. Image Credits: Robin.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool. Understand the culture, understand the market, protect your IP where possible, seek support and leverage on government resources, speak to your advisors or investors who help to open doors or might direct you otherwise. Go out there and do sales. Schwarzman.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

In my past as an investor and in my present as a pitch coach, I have come across a surprising number of companies where someone who’s not part of the founder team is out there trying to raise money for the company. They rarely see a pitch and reach for the checkbook, only to wait for the big bucks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Hiring your first employees into a startup is storytelling: You are spinning a story that contrasts their steady, reliable job at an established company, pitching it against taking a chance on your startup. Telling the origin story of your company is part of the culture that underpins everything. You create the right culture.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 3, 2021

On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000! The team is developing an augmented reality (AR) platform for mobile phones that allows the user to visit historical and cultural sites with life-like visuals and in-depth information.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Grab a cup of coffee and strap in, because this pitch deck teardown is pretty different from most of the ones I’ve done to date. This is a blockchain pitch. The pitch deck is for Simba Chain , a blockchain company that raised $25 million in a Series A. Pitch Deck Teardown: Arkive’s $9.7M seed deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

As my wife will tell you – arguing is cultural – you grow up with it or you don’t. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. It’s very Jewish.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

In creating its constitution, Anthropic says it sought to capture values in its constitution that aren’t strictly from Western, rich or industrialized cultures. (But it is OK to answer general questions about the law.) That’s an important point.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. It also just won the Digiday Worklife Award for Most Collaborative Culture. Workit Health.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. Published and reprinted by permission of Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Murmur is a web-based platform that allows startups to author, customize and plan policies that will shape a team’s culture. Murmur is launching amid a general trend of companies that are pitching themselves as best-practices-as-a-service. Dignan says connections from his book about the future of work will help land those agreements.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Casual mobile games have reached a fever pitch of interest with consumers, and so too with investors, who are rushing to back the biggest and most promising startups building these quick hits of engagement and diversion. “They would never say they’re gamers but will spend an hour on these.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

By putting some hard (time) limits on usage, Thursday’s pitch is that service scarcity can fix some of the problematic issues of overuse which can plague dating apps — leading to dating indecision and swipe fatigue. We’ve got big plans with a clear mission, to change a culture of how people date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. Book your pass ASAP! To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the book, the author covers how cops go after cybercriminals, and it shows that there is hope in stopping drug dealers, dark web market kingpins and child abusers. Yer gonna need both : Haje explores the difference between the solution and product slides in a startup’s pitch deck. PST, subscribe here. What’s up, Crunchy readers!

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I've written about this before , but if you can build a relationship with someone through sports, books, and various cultural interests without the pressure of each person trying to get something explicitly professional out of it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Their chat covered topics as far afield as Airbnb’s “work anywhere” policy, how it’s addressing liability issues for hosts and his biggest regret from the COVID-19 era: I overrode the host cancellation policy and refunded more than a billion dollars of guest bookings. I think it was the right thing to do. Image Credits: Guild Education.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2012

That demands reinventing a whole product quality culture. It would have been hard to stave off inevitable failure had the site already peaked and they were out pitching a rebuild. These are the grey haired white dudes that show up as Operating Partners on Private Equity fund pitch books.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Birb An apartment rental app to search for the best offers in a user’s favorite neighborhoods Book Box A library service for corporations to provide employees access to books and reading material Corner “The modern, frictionless way to set up a renovation with a pre-designed kitchen entirely online.”

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

For instance, Dunkin Donuts’ slogan “America Runs on Dunkin” makes people feel part of American culture. Here’s the brand story of the vacation rental company, Airbnb: “A trusted community marketing for customers to list, book, and discover unique accommodations for unique travel experiences.” .

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

This burnout-inducing belief creates a decision bottleneck where everything lands on the owner’s desk and a culture of learned helplessness flourishes. This burnout-inducing belief creates a decision bottleneck where everything lands on the owner’s desk and a culture of learned helplessness flourishes. It’s not where you want to live.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 3, 2023

Will Gill , Event Entertainer, DJ Will Gill Building Trust is Paramount Nothing turns a potential customer away faster than an obvious sales pitch. Even if you have studied several pre-determined paths in books or have done deep research about what the customer journey should look like, in reality, it rarely follows anything like that.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. Tyler: But are the roots of this stasis quite general and quite cultural? It essentially does a search.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I've been reading this book called " A Geography of Time " on a rec from my super cool friend Pants. The book is an exploration of how different cultures experience time, and how our current notions of time came to be. As it turns out, the pace of a city is directly correlated to per capita income and GDP.

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