Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

He realized his responsibility wasn’t “keep developing the product” but “build a successful business ready for investment.” He successfully raised the funding round he neededsomething that would have been impossible had he remained fixated on product development tasks. The result?

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Key Questions To Answer When Pitching Real Estate Tech VCs Is there demand for the product? It’s critical that startups prove they can the demand for their product can multiple geographies. The firm is also looking at product that are adjacent to real estate tech, like urban mobility solutions. Is the market big enough?

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Real Story: When Product Success Seems Like Luck Let me share a story about luck and persistence from our own experience. We developed a promising product that sat nearly dormant for six months because the client’s internal champion wasn’t driving adoption. That project became our most successful product ever.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Other effective CTAs for a sales-focused folder might include inviting recipients to connect on social media for updates, offering a limited-time discount on your products or services, or encouraging them to scan a QR code to access exclusive sales materials or product demos.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Godbys background is in mechanical engineering and product development, while another co-founder has an industrial design background. The third co-founder having a product design and marketing background dove into the human psychology of product marketing and sales.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your plan will include a marketing strategy that identifies the problem your product or service solves, the target market, what separates your solution from competitors, and other fundamentals the plan incorporates. While having a great product is essential, it’s more important to ensure that it addresses a tangible need in the market.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Second, almost no professional investor will consider putting that much into a startup until there is proof of market demand, product viability or some other mitigation of failure. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 22, 2024

David shared practical ways organizations can leverage AI for better decision-making and productivity. 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.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

While politicians may be masters at deflecting away from questions they are asked, that is not productive for a founder pitching. Learning more about your customers’ problems and challenges will better equip you to properly position your product or platform. For example, an investor asks, “What’s your monthly recurring revenue?”

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Chief Product Officer Goel, also previously at RobinHood, was Head of Risk and Fraud Engineering following his position as Software Engineer at Quantifind. 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As early investors in AI companies such as Lambda Labs, Writer, Streamlit, and many others, weve seen businesses of all sizes struggle to deploy models and AI tools into production, said Darian Shirazi, Managing Partner at Gradient. Cake brings two major benefits to its target clients.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

You can build a brand, design a product and be the next great innovator, but if you’re not a pleasant and driven human being, what’s the point? As a company leader, one of your foremost goals is to ignite a vibrant company culture with energy that inspires common goals and overall growth. Put aside income for a moment.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2025

million Series A funding round led by B lossom Capital , Maki intends to accelerate its product development and deepen its commitment to redefining HR practices. HR teams can then better focus on high-value, strategic decision-making, impacting organizations’ productivity and success. With the announcement of its $28.6

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

These businesses often had incredible products but struggled to communicate their value and connect with their target audiences in a meaningful way. This perspective has influenced how I guide wellness brands in crafting messaging that resonates emotionally with their target audience, rather than just promoting a product.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Reinventing the Enterprise Browser Islands core innovation lies in its reimagining of the web browsernot as a passive consumer tool, but as an active enabler of enterprise security, productivity, and IT efficiency. It improves productivity, simplifies the IT stack, reduces complexity, and embeds security.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message. Penetration (Market Share) - price the product at a low price to win dominant market share. As Madhavan Ramanujam tells it, Steve Jobs was both a product genius and pricing genius.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

NEC X has graduated over 130 startups since 2018 that have worked with NEC X’s innovation team, researchers, industry experts, coaches, mentors, and advisors to develop their products and establish market fit. Revenue or product launch is not required.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

Embrace Lean Startup Methodology Traditionally, starting a business meant undertaking thorough planning, seeking significant funding, and developing a product in isolation from its future users. By embracing strategic thinking and the lean startup philosophy, you can overcome entrepreneurial challenges and bring your vision to life.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

By tapping into the intricate workings of the brain, P ison is poised to transform industries ranging from fitness and workplace productivity to medical diagnostics and neurological care. Pisons technology also opens the door to personalized productivity tools.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 7, 2025

The use of AI agents in product recommendations, targeted offers, and personalized customer service was key to creating a seamless shopping experience for consumers. These interactions helped create personalized experiences, guiding consumers in product discovery and troubleshooting.

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The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 6, 2021

I’m pretty confident when I say, in Boston, hardly a day goes by when some graduate student or professor doesn’t invent a new product, discover a new molecule or create a cool app. Unfortunately, without a great team behind that new product, it’s doubtful that a great company will result.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They have achieved production of 2,000 liters of methane daily in pilot testing and are now setting up commercial deployments for early 2025. Having achieved initial production, the recent funding will accelerate the company’s development and deployment of its proprietary technology and the expansion of its engineering team.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Anything from intense customer love despite barely even having a product, pre-sales, a deal for access to data that creates a moat that no one else has—the list goes on. This doesn’t take into consideration, however, that venture capital is a financial product—a product that works for some people and doesn’t work for others.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

Not only are you catering to the modern audience that prefers to consume information visually, but also you are positioning your product or service in a highly compelling way! Instead of including a static product image, your customers can see it in action. Adding creative videos to your emails is a great way to achieve this.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 13, 2022

I mean trusting what each one brings to the table—and being honest about the process of earning that trust and what it means to having a productive relationship. For example, if you’re a sales oriented founder that gets backed pre-launch, then an investor isn’t going to assume that founder has any product design skills.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

When I next checked my e-mail, there it was, an e-mail from Alan giving me early access to the product. They can’t try your product. I’m sending you an e-mail with early access to the application because I see that you’re busy with this group, but I just wanted you to match the name and the face. And that was it. He walked off.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

The funding will fuel the companys expansion into retail, drive product innovation, and support the hiring of top-tier talent. Other key investors include Superguts founding investor, Dave Friedberg, through The Production Board, along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to joining LUUM, Lawson’s 15 year career included shaping brand strategies and product development across global brands such as Apple, PayPal and Movado. She also led marketing, communications and product teams in consumer electronics, retail, and luxury industries.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

For starters, productive entrepreneurs avoid overscheduling. Although they make the most of their time by being focused and productive, they refrain from overcommitting to the point where they’re not able to get anything done.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This collaboration between human and machine ensures that the final product is not only innovative but also practical and implementable. Curators work closely with AI to fine-tune these ideas, addressing any gaps or weaknesses and enhancing their overall coherence and appeal. Promote the Refined Idea.

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