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…
Read MoreThere 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…
Read MoreIt’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…
Read MoreKen 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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