Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

Beyond Entrepreneurship 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. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 29, 2019

Chantalle Dumonceaux , co-founder of and adviser to Womena, an angel investment platform focused on women in the Middle East. Moderator Jeff Engell , founder of Blue Oceans Group. Coworking spaces. How can different entrepreneurship ecosystems connect with one another? What is a startup community? Universities.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Gerald and his wife Dianna co-founded Plexpod, a coworking space where they champion entrepreneurs and the power of community to achieve success. Q: What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? Meet Kansas City entrepreneur and ecosystem builder Gerald Smith.

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GCUC

AUGUST 8, 2019

Out of our own curiosity, we polled some of the founders in our international circle that have or are building spaces with child care offerings to get there take on it all. Space: Work and Play NJ. What made you want to have childcare to your coworking space? Space: InnovateCommunicate (in process of opening).

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Making our ecosystem more easily navigable and ultimately founder-friendly.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

The first workshop was the Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CEA) Snapshot, which provided an insight into the work Forward Cities is doing in Indianapolis, Kansas City, New Kensington, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. He is the founder and principle of SMN Square headquartered in Richmond, VA. He runs a black-focused co-working space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? The cliche VC answer: strong team, big market.

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