Caring doesn't scale

By Rick Colosimo / October 4, 2017 / Comments Off on Caring doesn't scale

Here’s a pair of instructive quotes, ostensibly about code: Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.” – Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship This is what I see when I look at contracts. And processes. And business models. Caring doesn’t scale. #StartupRules It was the…

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Three ways to buy or sell a company

By Rick Colosimo / September 16, 2017 / Comments Off on Three ways to buy or sell a company

There are three basic transaction structures involved in virtually all buying/selling of companies. There are a few random ways, but this is a post, not a treatise. Each of these transactions can have very different tax effects based on the entity and tax type of the constituent parties. Taxes, plus some standard business considerations, greatly…

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Make SaaS export easy

By Rick Colosimo / July 24, 2017 / Comments Off on Make SaaS export easy

It’s not one SaaS app to rule them all, no matter how cool you think you are. And if there is one, it’s probably not yours. (It’s probably Gmail.) I get that you think your app is the cat’s pajamas and that not only will no one ever want to use anything else, but that…

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Sign here

By Rick Colosimo / June 9, 2017 / Comments Off on Sign here

Ken Adams has a recent blog post with some pictures of contracts with “Read Before Signing” written in by the signature block. The idea is likely that someone trying to enforce the contract later, against a claim by the person who signed saying “I didn’t read it, and I didn’t agree to something in there,”…

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