Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Here are the key takeaways that I believe relate to startup / intrepreneurial innovators. 5 Reasons People Will Oppose You We innovators already believe. It doesn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They seemed a little excessive in trying to make it hard for their competitors to raise capital. If Uber continues to grow and innovate this will be a storm in a teacup. I was at the first pitch meeting they ever did to raise capital. Both companies are hugely innovative. They want us to store our documents.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A number of individuals also participated, including partners from First Round Capital and Wilson Sonsini, Wiley and Allison Cerilli, David Rose, Tom Wisniewski, Chad Stoller, and Ramesh Haridas, among others. The company makes direct and indirect investments across a broad spectrum of asset classes.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Given that convertible debt financing has become the de facto standard for small (<$1MM), early stage deals in recent years, I thought I would write a primer on the elements of a term sheet and definitive documents for entrepreneurs looking at the earliest stage financing rounds. Let’s take it from the top: Why convertible notes?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

As venture capital investments slowed down in 2022 , some startups turned to private credit, including debt capital, as a way to supplement their operations in the meantime. With consumer credit, we’ve seen a lot of innovation, but business credit or business lending has really been stuck in the past,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

The one thing I learned as a consultant (I worked at Accenture for 9 years in my 20’s) and working with bankers doing M&A transactions is that no matter how hard we worked there was always a lawyer who got handed the documents at 2am and had to turn them around by 8am in the morning. So I give them the benefit of the doubt.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Power of AI Agents in Behavioral Health Eleos AI agents fundamentally change the workflow of behavioral health practitioners, improving time-consuming tasks such as clinical documentation, compliance monitoring, and patient engagement. These changes are allowing healthcare providers to spend more time with patients and less on paperwork.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link.

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Gust

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Make sure your service is innovative. You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Accern , which uses AI to analyze online conversations around particular companies, trends, and industries, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Mighty Capital alongside Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Gaingels and Fusion Fund and others. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. Current events might not have anything to do with my industry, but when they do, I want to be the first to know so I can make sure we’re capitalizing on opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. Document management? just click that link) was preparing for our annual meeting with our LPs. Kara worked in VC for more than 5 years but more than a decade ago. ” Such simple yet poignant advice. Disappearing messages?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. If you never read my post on Elephant, Deer & Rabbits – a guide to customer segmentation – it might be worth a read. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The history of cutarras is not clearly documented: Oral tradition tells us that cutarras first appeared in Panama with the arrival of the Spaniards, who introduced cattle into the lands of the Azuero peninsula. Santé Cutarras became the first brand to innovate the national shoes of her country. The Cutarras of Panama ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sebastián Vidal is the chief innovation officer at Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and former executive director at parallel18. Latin American companies may have financial capital, but they now need to hire senior roles and technical positions as they scale and look to build products in a more efficient manner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Working with writers to create documentation. Mark: Apple is like China, they have introduced an incredibly amount of innovation to the market. They’ve forced the entire industry to innovate and change. They have been successful simply for pushing the telecom companies, Microsoft, and Google to innovate.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

Oakes is the CEO and co-founder of i4cp , the leading HR research firm, and has been a pioneer in the human capital field for the last 25 years. Paul set out to make his mark as CEO, recognizing that continued innovation and execution were critical to future success. The company’s chip design business was exploding.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

At the moment, capital & technical expertise create competitive advantage. Models require millions of dollars & technical expertise to deploy: document chunking, vectorization, prompt-tuning or plugins for better accuracy & breadth. In generative AI, innovation & distribution are inextricably linked, feeding each other.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

GGV Capital, monashees, Canary, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, ONEVC, Peninsula and Norte also participated in the funding, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million. The company said its APIs verify personal documents and information by searching in public and private databases “quickly and pursuant to the compliance rules.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

This move is expected to streamline the visa issuance procedure, making it more accessible for global talent and driving innovation in key industries. These efforts demonstrate Japan’s commitment to attracting global talent and positioning itself as a hub for innovation and cross-cultural exchange.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 19, 2019

If you’re a bottoms up, product driven, capital efficient business, that operates at a profit, a $2M seed for 10% of the business may be enough to reach that $20M Series A. If you prefer to build a business that consumes more capital either for ramping GTM or developing a more technical product, a $5M seed might be a better bet.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. In all, Ontra is processing some 20,000 NDAs monthly at the moment.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Of course, such crowdsourcing would have to be intrastate, limiting the cash innovative startups could potentially find within a more restricted region. So why the hold up? INVEST IN STARTUPS.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. The company has tripled its revenue since its previous funding round in June 2022 and is expecting continued revenue growth with this new capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They have to create hours creating slightly different versions of documents. My thanks to all the angel leaders, and the Angel Capital Association , for their hard work! Instead, each angel group has their own subtly different questions and process. This makes the entrepreneur answer the same questions over and over.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. As Ashna reflected on where she started with YHS and where she is now, one of the biggest lessons she learned as a new entrepreneur was to really take the time to be deliberate about the early decisions — for example, the name and founding documents.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Startups and VC Three former managing directors at Amex Ventures went out on their own to start Vesey Ventures, and now they have closed on their debut fund with $78 million in capital commitments to back early-stage fintech startups. Mary Ann has more on their journey. Their company, Chargel, has now raised $2.5 Catherine has more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which might make it difficult to pull it off. We are generally open to startups innovating any part of the value chain as long as the problem and market are big enough.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

million Series A funding round from Insight Partners, WIN, Decent Capital, Fourth Realm, Neo and Pear, which brings the startup’s total raised to $17.5 Alandy Dy says that Expedock uses the documents and associated shipment data, augmented by public data and “AI-generated sources,” to train its invoice-extracting systems.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As we conclude our convertible note financing series, there are assorted terms commonly seen in term sheets and deal documents that are worth touching on briefly. Having made it almost to the end of our sample term sheet: Documentation. First, it’s worth noting that we’re proposing to have Company counsel draft the documents.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? He said, . “[W]e

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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