Does your startup suffer from premature launch syndrome?

By Rick Colosimo / January 14, 2014 / Comments Off on Does your startup suffer from premature launch syndrome?

So here is a message I recently received, unsolicited, from someone I don’t know, through a major Q&A site (URL redacted to protect the guilty): I’m a startup founder starting a company in the legal space. It’s called [abcdef.com], and it connects people with lawyers online. Sorta serves as a law firm to both lawyers…

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You're using the form wrong if….

By Rick Colosimo / December 2, 2013 / Comments Off on You're using the form wrong if….

Here’s an excerpt from a website terms of service I just read: [Please confirm whether users can submit content such as comments, blog posts, etc.] In order to make our Services more dynamic and useful, we may allow you to post comments or reviews or other Submissions to the Services and our forums. The bracketed…

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Don't accept passive-aggressive drafting

By Rick Colosimo / October 24, 2013 / Comments Off on Don't accept passive-aggressive drafting

I recently came across this language (unaltered) in a contract: The Parties understand and agree that all Confidential Information (i) is to be preserved and protected; (ii) is not to be disclosed or made available, directly or indirectly, to anyone other than Authorized Employees, including, without limitation, third parties or unauthorized employees for purposes unrelated…

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Simple cap table for VC round calculations

By Rick Colosimo / October 23, 2013 / Comments Off on Simple cap table for VC round calculations

Over the years I’ve had many occasions to figure out the price of an offering of preferred stock for a typical venture funded startup. This is different from, and definitely not to be confused with, the valuation of the company on a pre-money basis. That’s a topic for a later post.  In its most simple…

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