Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I am thrilled to introduce Forge the Future —an immersive roleplaying simulation designed for aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals! I’d love to discuss how Forge the Future can benefit you or your organization. Have you ever tried explaining to friends or family what it’s really like to build a startup?

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

Facing Reality Just in Time: The River Valley Investors Story After running the River Valley Investors (RVI) angel group for 15 years, I watched as attendance dwindled and investment activity slowed to concerning levels. Yet I kept telling myself a reassuring story: “Membership always goes up and down.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

Before I walk you through how to set up your own virtual board, let me share how mine is helping my decision-making process. The purpose of the advisory board is to [YOUR PURPOSE, mine was: help me in my career to succeed, be fulfilled, and love what I do]. In that case, I will type, EVERYONE.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

My journey really began when I founded Marquet Media, where I applied strategic PR techniques to help brands build lasting, impactful narratives. Over time, I realized that my true passion lies in empowering entrepreneurs and helping them create sustainable, scalable businesses. to support female entrepreneurs.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Short Version I recently listened to a fascinating episode of Beyond the Prompt featuring David Boyle, a veteran with 20+ years of experience in audience intelligence. In this post, I’ll break down his key insights and combine them with my own experiences implementing AI in daily work.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It was serving on that Board where I first met Nilam Ganenthiran , back while he was an executive at Instacart. We developed a friendship as part of our Board service and a recent blog post of his made me think I wanted to learn a bit more about his Instacart experience. I got a text from Apoorva asking if we could reconnect.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Instead of just sharing numbers, I created narratives around those metrics that connected to our mission and values. I remember spending hours crafting our narrative around key metrics – we focused on user growth, retention rates, and most importantly, how our service was changing the banking landscape.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 2, 2025

Having sold a SAAS business, which was bootstrapped and been part of techstars (which is one of the worlds best accelerators) and worked for top tier investment banks I know a thing or 2 about building a business or side hustle and i want to talk a little bit about the marketing side of it.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

The Feedback That Made Me Sick to My Stomach Years ago, as president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, I received feedback that literally made me feel physically ill. His message was clear and direct: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. As he walked me through my failings, I felt like a fraud.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the lessons that I learned about startups was you can move quickly alone, but you can move fast further as a team, Godby said. I felt like we had a working history and trusted each other, Godby said. I look fundamentally to whether this person will be a good team member.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We’re all continuously learning, and the ADC provided a wonderful opportunity to hear multiple perspectives on relevant topics and to see how I could adapt to better my practice to add more value.” It’s hard work but I find the challenge and fast pace energising and I’m not daunted by uncertainty or complexity. It’s not a one and done.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Future of Collaborative Shopping: An Interview with Adekunle Babasola, Founder & CEO of Prizeskout Corporation I had the pleasure of interviewing Adekunle Babasola, a project leader and product innovator with over 8 years of experience driving success in diverse environments. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 21, 2025

When I updated my profile with PixelStartups, so many of you reached out. A special thanks to my friend James Descheneaux for the kick in the rear I needed to make this transition happen! The love and support meant a lotthank you. WAAAAAHOOOOOOO!!! Email me to grab a time Thanks again for cheering me on.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I’m a Sanzo drinker. I’m also a Sanzo angel investor. The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. That said, I knew nothing about this industry.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I. Miliary veterans possess attributes, experience, and skills that can be well-applied to entrepreneurship through leadership and knowledge of technology.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen executive summaries of business plans in which the entrepreneur seeks $5,000,000 to build the business. Four reasons you should reconsider.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

During our Series A round, I replaced traditional bar graphs with dynamic visuals that investors could manipulate during the presentation. I’ll never forget presenting to a particularly skeptical VC who kept questioning our projections. I treated the product demo as a live slide.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

Ask “What did I learn?” instead of “Why did I fail?” Reframing Failure Startups are built on experimentation, and experiments fail. Resilient founders don’t treat failure as the end. They see it as valuable feedback. Normalize setbacks as part of the journey, do not see it as a personal flaw.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Todays hearing underscores this committees commitment to prioritizing entrepreneurship and innovation, and I thank you for your leadership in making this a shared nationaleffort. Four decades ago, I co-founded America Online (AOL), a company that helped usher in the Internet revolution. were on the platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With generative AI models matching and even surpassing human capabilities in creative tasks , the future will demand a different set of skills—idea curation, by which I mean selecting, refining, and promoting ideas. However, the rapid advancement of generative AI is poised to fundamentally shift this equation.

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Revolution

MAY 12, 2025

When I graduated from college, most of my classmates were headed to graduate school or diving into corporate America, taking roles at big established companies like Citibank, General Electric, or IBM. I couldnt stop thinking about it. I wanted to be part of it, but didnt see a pathforward. Then I saw an opening and moved to D.C.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Dont complainask, “How can I fix this?”, Break down risks into small, manageable experiments before going all in. Adopt a Problem-Solving Mentality using critical thinking Every challenge is an opportunity for innovation. ”, Maintain a Positive Mindset. Develop resourcefulness by working with constraints.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. I realized then, and now more than ever, that there’s a better way — by combining both PLG and SLG approaches. But it wasn’t enough.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. As startups scale, effective management becomes the difference between chaotic growth and sustainable success.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2025

Keshia Theobald-van Gent I had the pleasure of interviewing Keshia Theobald-van Gent , an accomplished executive with deep experience in innovation, strategy, and stakeholder engagement. I started out as a founder — I launched an edtech company focused on improving childhood literacy. From there, I ran U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 22, 2025

I daho (5th) : Idahos ranking as the fifth-best state for starting a business reflects its growing appeal for entrepreneurs seeking a lower cost of living and an abundance of natural resources. The state offers no state income tax, affordable office space, and one of the nations lowest corporate tax rates.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2025

Here are a few things I would do in todays ecosystem: Optimize for Conversion Before you even send people to your site or app, does the front page even make sense. Dont ask me to add friends before I even know what this thing does or whether its useful. Happy to be helpful at this stage if I can. Does it work? Best of luck!!

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Reviewing the BLS’ data on employment for white collar work, I aggregated the data to these categories. The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. Sales Managers 0.4

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Revolution

JANUARY 27, 2025

When my family and I launched the Leonsis Family Entrepreneurship Prize , our goal was to spark innovation and support student entrepreneurs who embody Georgetowns value of being men and women for others. I cant wait to see what you all accomplish next. At Revolution, Ive seen what backing entrepreneurs with big ideas can breed.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Breaking the “Impossible” at VVM When I was at Valley Venture Mentors, we set this BHAG: “In ten years, catalyze entrepreneurs to change the economy of Western Massachusetts by generating $1 billion in cumulative revenue and investment.” ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Culture in Action: A Story from Valley Venture Mentors Let me share how this played out at Valley Venture Mentors (VVM), a nonprofit startup accelerator I helped lead. Your shared values and behaviors shape every decision, big and small, creating the foundation for lasting success.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ensuring End-to-End Data Protection with Fully Homomorphic Encryption Featuring Ravi Srivatsav, Co-founder andCEO I had the pleasure of interviewing Ravi Srivatsav, Co-founder and CEO of DataKrypto. At one point, I asked our team to develop a minor feature within the product that would require modification to the codebase.

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StartupNation

JULY 15, 2025

One passive-aggressive comment, one missed deadline, one poorly handled conflict and, I promise you, people remember. You’ll become indispensable. Protect Your Reputation Like Equity In small teams, word travels fast. Every interaction shapes how others perceive your leadership potential, your reliability, and your value.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 26, 2025

Sanjit Singh I had the pleasure of interviewing Sanjit Singh, the Co-Founder and CEO/CTO of Julia Technologies , where he is pioneering the future of trauma care through the integration of augmented reality, robotics, and AI. I was a curious kid who constantly questioned how things worked, and that curiosity led me to technology.

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