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Paul G. Silva
APRIL 1, 2025
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. How to Make This Shift in Your Organization 1.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” It can’t just all be from one company either—because only a small fraction of big company employees are ever going to want to work at a startup.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.
Ian Hathaway
JANUARY 6, 2020
Census Bureau allowed the researchers to get an accurate and comprehensive view of all business startup activity in America. The authors calculated the average founder age (at the time of founding) along key startup characteristics (industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2012
I think that’s one of the reasons that many of the most interesting bay area startups are choosing to locate themselves in the city. In driving down the costs of building businesses it’s driving down the age of startup founders and thus they’re starting companies where young people want to live – in urban environments.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 3, 2011
And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship. If your first chance at being a startup founder coincides with your first child it’s really difficult for either gender.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 11, 2018
Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark.
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