Paul G. Silva
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The Millau Viaduct , consistently ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0).
Paul G. Silva
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collinss book, BE 2.0 Culture is Strategy This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Check out the previous post about how luck favors persistence.
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Paul G. Silva
JANUARY 21, 2025
This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 ” Six years later, we were named us one of America’s top 100 startup accelerators. The entrepreneurs we helped were making 100 times more money and impact than local startups did before VVM existed. What is Vision?
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 6, 2020
While some level of stress is inevitable if you are running a startup, times like this can ramp up the stress factor considerably. I interviewed a number of prominent VC’s and entrepreneurs for my recent book. Here is advice I collected for dealing with the stress of running a startup: 1. Remember that you are not alone.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
I understand that Adam Grant is a fairly popular professor at Wharton and has a book that some people loved called “Originals” (for me it interesting but not mind blowing, and I have some first-hand knowledge of some of its inaccuracies). I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 22, 2011
I didn’t sit through any panels (other than the day where I was the emcee and judge for the BizSpark Accelerator program). I booked several high-profile meetings in advance. I had to be on stage at 7.30am for the Startup Accelerator event. I hold true to form and follow my own advice. I stayed out late. Strike that.
TechCrunch
APRIL 7, 2021
“While flight restrictions did cause some international founders to pull crazy hours from our home countries to participate in the sessions, virtual sessions allowed additional members of our teams to participate that would otherwise not have been able to do so,” the accelerator’s organizers said in a TechCrunch post last year. “We
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