Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. What changed in your work or leadership?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice.

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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. Our board chairman called me in for a conversation. We doubled our membership, became profitable, and soon were running out of space.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Pandemic-induced office closures led to nearly impossible circumstances for a startup focused on events and coworking spaces. As board members, there were many hard conversations and no easy answers. We leaned in during weekly board meetings and reinvested when others left the cap table.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Under Zach’s leadership, Grapevine empowers organizations to streamline their operations by integrating communication and knowledge management in one seamless platform, driving better collaboration, productivity, and engagement across the board. Before the pandemic, the office was where teams connected and shared information.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 21, 2020

I come to this work from spending over 17 years in Big 4 management consulting leadership roles and my hypothesis is that there is a space for a professional services firm with ecosystem building as it’s core service offering that can help grow the field and deliver on multiple projects across the country, if not the globe. Louis area.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

meter coworking office space where majority of our portfolio companies and accelerator program companies sit on a daily basis. Through our coworking space, we are directly investing in our local ecosystem both supporting entrepreneurs and identifying rising entrepreneurs. meter coworking space.

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