Paul G. Silva

MARCH 31, 2022

About 20 years ago I was a kid running my first startup and Baer was one of the early people to join our Board of Advisors. The company eventually failed, but not before helping thousands of blind people around the world reconnect with friends and family in ways many had not thought possible.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

As business owners, we are not only expected to bounce back from adversity but have now increased our capacity to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, rejection, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. Experience-shares enlighten and shine guiding light in the recesses of our minds when we may feel trapped and alone.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Iteration #1: High-Value, but Unsustainable Our first approach was simple: hand-match startups with mentors for one-on-one meetings. It required a huge commitment from mentors , limiting our pool. Iteration #2: The Standing Monthly Meeting Next, we modeled our program after an angel investor group meeting. The result?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2024

Has someone suggested that you become a “thought leader?” A thought leader is someone who becomes known as a subject matter expert and sought out or relied on for their experience sharing. Here are the steps I recommend for becoming a thought leader. Find an existing thought leader to coach you step-by-step. Pick a lane.

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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. We drew this conclusion after a meeting we had with Morgan Stanley where they showed us historical 15 & 20 year valuation trends and we all discussed what we thought this meant.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

These ups and downs impact us deeply because we are so close to and personally invested in our businesses. There were moments when I thought to myself, “How will my company survive this, and how much longer can we possibly last ?” I thought to myself, “This ship is not going down on my watch!”. The result?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

I thought, “Meh. As entrepreneurs, it’s difficult to find someone to hear us and understand what’s going on in our lives; Forum was a place where I felt totally understood. But at the same time, really awesome because I never thought about those things before. For me, it was totally different. So, I skipped it.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

After collectively witnessing many of our main street and small businesses across the country close in 2020, there arose a new sense of appreciation for the value entrepreneurs bring to our communities and our economy. Our network grew in number and impact in 2021. as compared to the previous year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

But, even then, we knew that many things could go wrong and that our investments were risky. So when Jim floated the idea of a book targeting entrepreneurs to help more of them succeed, we gave it serious thought. We could leverage our own experiences and knowledge as entrepreneurs with rich corporate careers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

Beyond our efforts internally at Point7, we are in a unique position to help shape the broader cannabis industry by working with our clients to develop their business strategies. As consultants, we spend a great deal of time designing business plans, hiring and training programs, and brands with our clients. The Point 7 team.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

At EO, we are lucky to have such a wide range of experience and expertise across our membership that the moments of real insight are everywhere. With members in more than 70 countries, EO is truly global, but that does not mean that our members around the world share the same culture, views or experiences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

When an alien lands on Earth, it sees our world with fresh eyes–not constrained by the same assumptions and biases as we are. But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. But it also feeds your mind with new thoughts and new ways of looking at things.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets. sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well. Maker Studios?—?sold Still, I begged the CEO and the founders not to sell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

Don’t miss our previous posts on How to Protect Your Mental Health When Starting a Business and 5 Strategies To Change Your Inner Dialogue From Critic to Advocate and 3 Steps to Safeguard Your Mental Health and Become a Better, More Effective Leader. Mindset work involves planting and fostering supportive thoughts and beliefs in our minds.

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Source Link

APRIL 1, 2022

All things SourceLink was the theme of our March 17 SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation. Exciting features and new enhancements to our SourceLink technologies. Attendees will hear success stories and gain valuable insights from national thought leaders about solutions for sustainable, equitable economic impact.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 1, 2020

My partner Rebecca wrote about our most recent education investment, Sora , on the USV blog today. And so I thought it would be worth talking a bit about that. What we had not done, until now, is backed a company providing an alternative learning “institution.” ” Sora does that. ” Sora does that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca For the first 5 years or so after I became a VC I didn’t talk much about what I thought a VC should be excellent at since frankly I wasn’t sure. Our core skill is being able to identify talent and how to persuade the most talented people with whom we have access that we would be valuable to work with.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

As community leaders, economic developers and ecosystem builders, we must go beyond just championing entrepreneurs of color and seek to help our communities achieve racial wealth equity for all. Our team would love to help you support new entrepreneurs in your community. Go beyond a quick impersonal referral.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I thought, “We have a lot of food waste; how can I use this waste in growing feed?”. I thought, “What is this? We are now marketing, branding, and using proper Samaki Farms packaging for our feeds. As student entrepreneurs, we all face similar struggles in our individual companies. I’m fulfilling my childhood dream!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2024

We’re paying a high price for our outdated notion of balance. But what happens when one of these flaps gets stuck due to situations beyond our control? Or when the proverbial bird strikes an engine — how do we keep from spiraling our plane into a crash and burn? At the time, the thought of me running 26.2

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Source Link

MARCH 29, 2021

In guiding organizations through the process of deploying Community Navigators (we often refer to them as Network Navigators), it’s been our experience this model can be successful in communities of all sizes—whether that’s impacting small towns like Klamath Falls or scaling to statewide initiatives in Kansas , Missouri , Wisconsin and Iowa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2021

Those of us working from home faced the challenge of how to be creative, productive and keep our businesses alive. There is a benefit of being knocked out of our rituals and routines, it causes us to view the world through a different lens. Entrepreneurship is a creative activity. COVID-19 added immeasurably to that challenge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s been great being back together, especially with other leaders at EO’s Global Leadership Conference (GLC), where we learned together in our respective tracks and also learned from great speakers. Winnie Hart ‘s presentation on how to Stand Out as a Thought Leader provided great tools that reaffirmed why I do what I do.”.

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The Seraf Compass

APRIL 1, 2020

As a follow-up to our message on Angel Investing in Challenging Times, Christopher and I tasked Raza with putting together an update and perspective piece for the CEOs of our portfolio companies. The letter outlines our thoughts on some of the challenges they will face in the near term.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Insights and soundbites from our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit This year, we had more than 150 investors from 31 states join us for our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit. At the end of the day, you want a thought partner who’s aligned with your strategy.” Storytelling is our biggest export.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This is a theme I have come back to many times over the last decade but in the wake of all of the headlines about high profile founders, VCs, and companies leaving the bay area, I thought I would return to it. In the third decade of USV, I suspect we will extend our geographic range even further. We already have.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 29, 2020

We have a plethora of responsibilities, and it’s often hard to choose where to focus our efforts. Overwhelmed” is often our default mode. Instead of taking time to consider how we use our energy, we counterbalance feeling overwhelmed by going “all in”. We all have stressors in our lives. Excitement? Write it down.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

One of my favorite thought leaders, Don Macke with the e2 Entrepreneurial Communities , often talks about the fact that entrepreneurial talent is universal, but thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems are not. These businesses deserve our support and celebration; they make up the bulk of the existing entrepreneurial ecosystem in any community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As business owners, we often have a huge amount of wealth tied up within our businesses, but don’t form the habit of creating other income streams and forms of wealth, such as investments outside our businesses. I believe we are moving into a new era.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

. #2 — Real Estate Strategics and their Partner Companies: There is a big difference between a strategic investor supporting an experimental pilot in a couple of buildings and one that is offering a thoughtful, scalable partnership with true buy-in from key internal stakeholders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2024

And what I had envisioned as being a chance encounter or two with Richard during our stay turned into not four, but five powerful days of life-changing conversations, competitive tennis matches, fuzzy lemur cuddles, cool ice baths, steep mountain hikes, tropical storm weathering and more. And such is life and our approach to obstacles.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Betty Álvarez: From the business’ perspective, if your team is only formed of people like you, or that think just like you, or with your same train of thoughts and tastes, that is the only demographic you are ever going to get. González: Within our board, managing team, and program participants the majority are women. government.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As we all prepare for the fall back to school/back to work season, I thought I’d touch on a topic that has been top of mind for me for the last six months. The covid pandemic taught many of us that we can be productive and our companies can succeed in a fully remote work environment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 3, 2024

Jamie’s words resonate with EO members worldwide: “It is not just my year to lead; it is our collective year to create impact.” ” Embracing the transformative power of generosity, Alex Yastrebenetsky, an EO Cincinnati member who inspired us with his thought leadership in Want to Change Lives?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Our global goal is to ignite women leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and future-preneurs to spark startups, drive economic expansion, and advance communities worldwide,” Milena shared. Our membership includes a wide range of skill sets, allowing us to tap into our wider network.

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