Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

When Leaders Grow, Teams Follow In BE 2.0 , Jim Collins emphasizes a powerful truth: organizations can only grow as much as their leaders do. When they resist change, their teams inevitably stagnate. Our board chairman called me in for a conversation. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). But hearing that you need to grow is one thing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

As entrepreneurs transition and adjust to changes the pandemic caused in their companies, how can they build—or rebuild—not only a business but also a team of like-minded individuals with a common purpose or goal? Here are four outrageous ideas that I’ve found to be favorites among my team: Surprise Nerf battles in the office.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Two entrepreneurs share their experiences building a strong team followed by an outline of key areas to know. While great ideas can be the catalyst for success, the team behind the idea truly drives a startup forward. The right team can make all the difference between slow and fast growth, even between success and failure.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The founder and CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, explained this well in a tweetstorm last week: He ended with this tweet: Recently Apple announced a way for developers to suggest updates to the App Store policies. USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Sep 10, 2020 Mental Healthcare 3.0 It must stop.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As with all promotions, the reality is that Kara was already acting as a senior leader at our firm and also in the industry at large. Our industry needs more female leaders and they shouldn’t have to all quit their respective firms and raise their own funds to get a shot at running things. So What Does All This Mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. What do you do with a $650 million platform?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our mission is to help our customers solve their challenges by making our platform more innovative, transparent, and secure. The proceeds from this raise will speed up our efforts to drive financial inclusion and support Africa’s entrepreneurial potential.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Over the last decade, the Gotham Gal and I have moved away from oil and gas in our homes and have installed solar panels for electricity and heat pumps for heating and cooling. We can see this in cars (EVs>Gas) and heating/cooling systems and many other aspects of our economy. I believe that is plain wrong.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Our vision is ultimately to build a gas station on Mars while producing clean, fossil-free energy on Earth along the way,” said CEO Mattison. This funding allows us to move toward mass commercialization of our technology, creating a fossil-free world with abundant high-density energy.”

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 22, 2024

What follows are sets of problems most of us face, along with how to use generative AI to increase our productivity, quality-of-work, and approach. He explained how AI can process vast amounts of customer data to identify patterns and segments that would take traditional research teams months to uncover.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Companies in our portfolio are tackling supply chain and logistic challenges, making healthy food options more widely available, innovating in the retail and consumer space, disrupting the healthcare system, leading the way in digital sports and entertainment, and more. Based in Washington, D.C., Take Detroit, for example.

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Revolution

JANUARY 27, 2025

At this years Bark Tank Pitch Competition , eight teams took the stage to pitch their ventures to a panel of expert judges, competing for a record $150,000 in prizes. Each team represents what makes entrepreneurship so powerful: the ability to see problems as opportunities and use technology to create solutions that drive realimpact.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since we launched Parafin, our mission has been to empower small businesses with financial services. The teams success comes from Parafins single integration of a full suite of financial products into clients platforms that are customized for use by their small business sellers. This has historically hindered small business growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Today, Analog Events is proud to have achieved its B Corp certification, a testament to our commitment to sustainability and innovation in every activation we undertake. We faced numerous challenges, from reevaluating our supply chain practices to ensuring our operations were as eco-friendly as possible.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2025

“Our mission is to give human resources more-than-human powers, as we believe the future lies in a powerful mix of human ingenuity and AI-driven intelligence. HR teams can then better focus on high-value, strategic decision-making, impacting organizations’ productivity and success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2022

But there are downsides as well: Namely, the way we communicate between departments and teams in remote and hybrid environments has built bigger silos. With everyone working in the same place, there are more chances for employees to interact organically and communicate with coworkers outside of their teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 We often knew about the teams before they actually set up the company or left their employer.

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

Revolution’s team put rubber to the road this spring, traveling more than a collective 12.5K is core to our investment thesis. The Revolution Communications team also made their way to the Windy City, where they met with the portfolio companies Partyslate and Rheaply and got a tour of the Foxtrot HQ.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

”He offers that bleak insight, having founded two of the most successful companies of our time, Tesla and SpaceX. Assemble a Strong and Talented Team Steve Jobs offers another quote about the importance of having the right people around you. They’re done by a team of people.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2022

I have gathered our experiences to share our best practices and inspire women of all ages that it’s possible to hit the million-dollar benchmark. . When we started The Woobles, we made every kit with our own four hands. Just a few weeks ago, we received our first container of kits made in China.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

who believe in our mission of bridging cultures. To the latter, the venture arms of DJ Steve Aoki and actor Simu Liu co-led our most recent round and both Steve and Simu have been extremely helpful behind the scenes as we build more distribution. So in many ways, I think it’s healthier for everyone that the lines have been re-drawn.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2022

I took these words seriously, and I committed to applying that idea to every team member, vendor and future client. Our advertising agency became very good at advertising for our clients, but the real business we were in was growth ; growth for our team members, growth for our clients, and by default, growth for our business.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

It’s good to make sure we’re aligned before our call or else it’s likely a waste of both of our times. Our time is limited A screening call with an associate is often 30 minutes long and in some cases only half that. Answer Our Questions Directly Assoicates can tell when you’re dancing around a question. For example.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 23, 2023

Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. USV TEAM POSTS: We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2021

Leaders must know how to get the best from their teams. A lot of teams think they can coast in practice and then turn it on in games, but it doesn’t work that way,” Magic shared. “The He extrapolates that lesson to entrepreneurship: “For all of us who own their own business, what is our goal? When you do that, guess what?

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

This was the first time we've done a virtual Kickoff Week, and our team at Dreamit is even more excited to get to know these amazing founders in person when things return to normal. ?? The Dreamit team is already working closely with its new cohort of B2B startups on issues related to surviving and thriving during an economic downturn.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Unfortunately, the cutting-edge has historically been the exclusive domain of large ML engineering teams. When we first met the team at Cake, it was incredible to see the number of customers deeply engaged with their solution. Herscus background in deploying innovative technology runs deep.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Investors want to hear, “Our unique insight is __”… in your pitch 2. The Dreamit team has said it before, raising money from a VC is a lot like sales. If you can’t “sell” or “trial close” investors, they’ll have doubts concerning your ability to do it with customers, partners, or early team members. Not comfortable selling?

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 9, 2025

The early adopter team championed the innovation and when it saved them the contract, others within the organization took interest. This success transformed our champion inside the client into a company hero and spurred adoption across the organization as other teams sought to replicate the results.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

After seeing the success of this play, she decided to expand her research with her team to create a long-form play. In 2018, after Déborah finished researching the play, it went on tour around Lima, and her team launched their production with a new name, CAPAZ (Spanish for “able”).

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