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Paul G. Silva
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collinss book, BE 2.0 Culture is Strategy This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Why Culture Matters More Than Strategy People often say “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
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NOVEMBER 4, 2012
I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2014
Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. My first startup was no different. They are the lifeblood of many companies yet they are different than the traditional technology startup DNA so the ways that you hire, motivate, compensate and assess performance of these individuals will be different.
Paul G. Silva
APRIL 1, 2025
This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials.
Paul G. Silva
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The Millau Viaduct , consistently ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0).
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NOVEMBER 2, 2014
Many of us jokingly talk about ADD because we recognize the tell-tale signs like inability to focus on one task at a time, inability to finish projects (or articles or books) that don’t hold our interests intensely. Then she bought me a book that changed my life. Reading 5 or 6 books at once but never completely finishing any.
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MARCH 17, 2011
When you hire somebody too early who has already “done it” you often find somebody that is less motivated in tough times, less willing to be scrappy (as many startups need to be), more “needy” and less mentally flexible / willing to change their way of thinking. Culture matters. As times get tough you’ll value this culture.
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