Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Here are the key takeaways that I believe relate to startup / intrepreneurial innovators. 5 Reasons People Will Oppose You We innovators already believe. It doesn’t.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. A few of the most impactful benefits I’ve realized are: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. This can be your star Chief Architect who loves to code but hates having to handle the admin like testing, documentation, recruiting, etc. I know, I’m weird.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. So how much PS is too much?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Other deals. 2.2mm in Series A. Enter Xobni.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. We knew COVID-19 would forever change the entertainment industry, and we needed to innovate before our competitors did to capitalize on new market opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Working with writers to create documentation. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning. Mark: Apple is like China, they have introduced an incredibly amount of innovation to the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. We talked about Facebook.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

Paul set out to make his mark as CEO, recognizing that continued innovation and execution were critical to future success. While revamping the onboarding process of new employees to the culture of Qualcomm, the HR department recognized how important it was to get new employees aligned with the values of innovation and execution.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This helps them learn how to improve and reimagine what’s possible by developing greater discipline and focusing on fundamental business strategies. This type of leadership team is capable of creating processes to execute against the strategy which, in turn, creates a cycle of innovation. I began to think like a leader.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

One of the biggest innovations of Twitter was asymmetrical follower model in which many people can follow your updates and you don’t have to follow theirs. DropBox could send out Tweets to users when new documents have been added to a folder they are following if they have subscribed to updates. Not practical.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. She changed her strategy from soliciting support from big, well-known donor organizations to cultivating and developing potential partners that were open to identifying a common interest to create a win-win partnership.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 30, 2025

With over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and entrepreneurship, David has grown Local Falcon to serve over 100,000 users worldwide, delivering innovative AI-powered tools to simplify and optimize local search strategies. Thank you so much for joiningus! Thanks for havingme. What motivated you to launch yourstartup?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, SMEs were required to visit physical bank branches, provide extensive documentation, and endure lengthy approval processes for loans. This innovative model allows SME owners to secure collateral-free business loans with just a few clicks on their mobile phones.

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 21, 2023

10 Strategies to Scale Hourly Hiring With Quality and Diversity Scaling your hourly hiring process while ensuring quality and diversity is a challenge that many leaders face. To help you navigate this, we asked ten industry leaders and CEOs for their top strategies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Companies like Amazon have developed extensive IP protection strategies over the years to proactively track and take down fake goods, but the argument here is that even this is not enough (and that’s saying nothing of the thousands of platforms smaller than Amazon that lack the resources to manage this on their own).

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. History is the mother of innovation for any type of company,” one respondent said. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 11, 2024

There is a wealth of online marketing research resources to help a small business or startup to establish a marketing plan and strategy to achieve its marketing goals. With the right information, small businesses can formulate a strategy to move forward more confidently, by understanding their target customers and related market segment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Startups have chief strategy officers, chief investment officers — even chief fun officers. This means that ethics should be integrated throughout the development process — starting with strategy and planning through development, deployment and operations. Find an ethics officer to lead the charge.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company’s application provides instant money in just 5 minutes using alternative data, without having to require paper documents or guarantors. The pre-IPO round was led by SCBX and a new investor Lombard Asia , a Southeast Asia’s growth-focused private equity manager.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Intellectual Property - For a discounted flat fee, Fox’s skilled IP attorneys will review and recommend a strategy to protect your IP, file for trademark protection or perform other services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which might make it difficult to pull it off. And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.”

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 5, 2024

From fostering a culture of trust to assigning clear task ownership, explore the diverse strategies and tools in these fourteen responses that can help ensure your team stays on track. By understanding human motivation and implementing effective strategies, leaders can foster a culture of ownership, responsibility, and collective achievement.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Jess now is focused on these primary challenges: Adapting to New or Innovative Online Marketing Strategies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Space Industry,” warns that foreign intelligence entities (FIEs) could use a range of strategies — including capital allocations — to exploit American space companies. Those attacks could be to harm a company, or to gain access to intellectual property for the benefit of a foreign national space program.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Now that my days are spent exclusively behind a computer, I’ve been searching for the right note-taking strategy. I recognize that note-taking is like pricing strategy: you never get it entirely right, so you’re always inclined to tinker. His main innovation is to write small notes that cross-reference each other.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

After all, the resume is a document that primarily exists to tell employers about a person’s previous experience. Some might be future leaders of your organization, while others have innovations up their sleeves that could help make your company a ton of money. The best strategy is to mix approaches.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 12, 2019

This batch of not disappointed users should not impact your product strategy in any way. My thanks to Rahul Vohra for taking the time to document this process and share it with the world. 2) Analyze feedback to convert on-the-fence users into fanatics. Read the whole article and consider it an instruction manual.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 14, 2018

Improvise and innovate. What are the available strategies to establish good relations with them, entice them toward your business, and make them loyal clients? Document and review numbers. Likewise, smart business owners make a plan —and then prepare a plan B, plan C, and so on. You have to put systems in place.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. But before we get to the lesson, I just plain like this intro into his negotiation strategy: Like a machismo first-time CEO I thought I should handle the negotiation myself. He openend with his first issue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The terminal often feels like an afterthought, and there hasn’t been a lot of innovation in this space for a very long time. But there are also features like cursor positioning, the ability to move back through your terminal history command to command and then copy the output with a single click, built-in documentation and more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Everybody was talking about the accessibility of masses of digital information in the form of “documents” — human-generated content intended for human consumption. Joe Hellerstein. Contributor.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Note that this is a debt instrument, whereas the two documents below are equity instruments. Take SparkToro, for example, which raised an unusual round of financing and open-sourced all their documents. You can see their Folder with All the Documents , including the: LLC Agreement. Bigfoot Capital’s RBI term sheet template.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

We are here to help them with product discovery and strategy, market analysis, UX/UI design, smoke testing, usability testing, and everything else that is needed to get it right. To get to a robust estimated project timeline and budget, we consider user stories, wireframes, and/or a requirements document as the perfect starting point.

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