Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

They helped me: Refine my messaging for three distinct audiences Identify a new opportunity for angel groups to meet one-on-one with PE firms Validate the idea’s strengths without diluting the core message Just this morning, I met with my virtual board to improve my participant exit interviews.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

We are often referred to as the Sandwich Generation—caught in the middle between aging parents and children. Often, professionals identify missed financial planning opportunities and coordination gaps that could cost families thousands or even millions of dollars, depending on their net worth. CRN-3730060-082421.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

To celebrate Porfirio’s efforts in creating job opportunities in his community, and in leading them toward a culture of sustainability, the YLAI Network asked him a few questions about Green Depot’s successes. The ultimate goal of Green Depot is to be a global reference for industrial triple impact companies (i.e.,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

It looks as though you’ve built a very interesting business, and I’d love to spend some time getting a better understanding of your future plans for the company and if there is an opportunity to partner with [My Firm]. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice. And that is how it should be. Dave Lin spent 4+ years inside a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

Having a good sales methodology can help you ensure your company runs more disciplined campaigns and focuses scarce resources on your best opportunities. Startup Advice' In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2022

When I took over my family business at age 25, my father’s advice to me were these three ideas: honesty, hard work and integrity. However, I find myself referring to and using them when I conduct staff interviews as they encapsulate the qualities we look for in team members. Ai-Ling Wong, EO Malaysia and founder of The Decorateur.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And they will offer you some of the best business advice you will ever receive if you’re open to it. And at moments of crisis or moments of great opportunity it can often be a small group of people surrounding you who help move you carefully across a winding pass and on to greatness. And it’s not just lawyers.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

Provocation-based selling turns these challenges into opportunities. Do you have a track record that proves you’re a credible source of advice on this issue? This is why provocation-based selling requires the vendor to utilize what Moore refers to as “soft power”, specifically “relationship capital.” What keeps them up at night?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

But I used to jokingly refer to bridge loans as “pier&# loans. You’ve been busting your arse on this opportunity for the past 18 months. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. This is literally what I said to him (almost verbatim).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 3, 2024

While there’s a lot of advice available in those areas, we’ll concentrate on a few inbound strategies that remain consistently reliable (and promising) for 2024 and beyond. Top inbound marketing strategies for 2024 When creating an inbound marketing plan, focus on content creation and distribution.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

Back to the Y Combinator / Techstars comparison, over the past 20 years, each of those systems had the same opportunity to screen tens of thousands of teams, select a subset of them to try to help, and then see how those experiments played out over time. Step 3: Give good advice Most startup advice is bad.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So now that you’ve accepted (I hope) that exclusivity can be a massive opportunity if crafted correctly, let me delve into the topic. The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Peloton has recently done a big push to get users to add hashtags that they create?—?this

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many startups are feeling the pressure in today’s uncertain economic climate, but for SaaS companies, the next 12 months could present major opportunities for growth: 70% of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) globally are reporting higher investments in technology this year, according to Gartner Digital Markets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2024

There’s a robust correlation between success and having the ability to say “no” to opportunities that don’t serve you. Bergler was sharing the one piece of advice he would give new entrepreneurs with EO Portland’s EO Accelerator program. Eventually, incoming work opportunities exceeded capacity.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve unapologetically hyper-focused this shopping solution for women, as informed and directed by my personal experience and the experiences of my users as women, moms, and what I refer to as “household procurement specialists.” I still regularly meet with i2E for advice as I’m building my company. Don’t ever put limits on yourself.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. But the good thing is that this is where you can call in some reinforcements.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Indeed, many Canadians refer to Toronto as “east”’ despite there being 1,900 miles between Drake and The Weeknd’s hometown and St. Another federal government agency, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), awards funding between CA$500,000 and CA$3 million (roughly $400,000 USD to $2.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Plus, they were gracious enough to share some of the advice they’re giving to their portfolio companies. We see tremendous opportunity for innovation in the world of B2B payments. We try to predict where there will be opportunities for seismic innovation before we find the entrepreneur. What do you feel might be overhyped?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

I’m talking about what someone I know recently referred to as “dentists”. Helpful investors should use their sage advice and support of the founder to make them into better, data-driven decision makers to impact a company, instead of relying on their contractually held voting rights. I’m not talking about active angels.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To provide insights into the role of partnerships in new business development, we asked 13 CEOs and Founders for their expert advice. Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well. I refer them web-design clients, and in return, they refer me SEO clients.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. I asked five early-stage investors to share frank advice for first-timers, and I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are probably not ready to pitch an investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. This post has some basic advice on how to plan your raise before you hit the road. Stack rank opportunities Once you have your spreadsheet you really want to split the rows into a stack-ranked priority list.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding. Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches. That’s an awesome suggestion. Weave all your key messages through the demo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

There is also a matter of security, with much effort going into ransomware and malware, but Chavez feels a big opportunity is to bring security to the data wherever it lies. They found that in Acrew founding partner Theresia Gouw, whom Chavez referred to as “the OG of privacy and security.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

With some of the ugly out of the way — my words, not hers — T2 has examples it can refer back to on how to handle tensions around virality, doxxing and more. All to say, there’s definitely an opportunity to find talent if you are hiring. My big question is if VCs are taking the same advice that they’re dishing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Last week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed experts who had some strategic advice for finding the right time to bring a product manager on board. As Roblox began to trade Wednesday, the company’s shares shot above its reference price of $45 per share. Image Credits: Steve Jennings / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

“The bigger picture is that each of our competitors views the opportunity more narrowly than ultimate.ai “For example, one of our customers is a large national pharmacy group, where customer service agents are qualified pharmacists who provide prescription medical advice.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In North America, these refer as private investment in public entity (PIPE), where institutional investors or accredited investors invest in a public company at a certain discount to the current market price. Additionally, Do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? Build trust. Be authentic and be prepared.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The initial investment that you make in your company is referred to as your “basis,” although many individuals are unaware of this fact. The amount that you invest initially is referred to as your basis in any investment. The aftermath of this unnoticed opportunity was a bitter pill of lost savings.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 12, 2019

Some investors announce “Hey – I run a syndicate” while others leave this information hidden until the docs are being signed, at which point attentive founders notice that the signature block refers to some mysterious entity. These are single purpose partnerships where a group of investors come together to fund a specific opportunity.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. However, if you don't want to evaluate your inbound deal opportunities, that's the job, my friend.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Taken as a whole, FIs are at an especially receptive time for greater software adoption.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Of course, remember that this is not tax advice. A number of factors will determine whether you will be taxed at short-term capital gains (ordinary income tax rates) or long-term capital gains, also referred to as qualified small business stock (QSBS) rates. How shareholders are taxed. Image Credits: Keystone Global Partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Sure, startup names are often catchy and pretty self-explanatory (Lyft, DoorDash), but it’s hard remember that Orange refers to a car-charging company , not the fruit. As a founder, you have an opportunity to influence how someone summarizes your company. What is a good shorthand for your company?

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This may quickly lead to a stranglehold on new opportunities and undermine your efforts to expand your market share. If your company offers legal advice, there’s no need to employ a full-time copywriter. We’re not referring to surfing, but market waves. . The ancillary tasks you can’t automate? In conclusion.

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