Rick Colosimo

Mark Suster wrote a great post on management bandwidth being the scarcest resource for startups. It seems from the outside that he’s wrong, that only money stands between every team and their dream, but you have to go around the block a few times before you see the truth of his advice. You can take…

This WSJ article describes some of the problems that small businesses have faced with names. The most significant one, from my perspective, is the trademark lawsuit that cause the cookie company to change its name after being featured on the “Rachael Ray Show.” What a waste of potential marketing value! Over the years, I’ve serviced…

The title of the article that sparked this post claims to tell us “What do highly successful startups have in common?” If only it were that easy. I bet you can name the data error here just by re-reading the title of that article. Of course, you just know there’s going to be a survivorship…

When the board makes option grants, it has to set a strike price – the exercise price for each option. (NB: this applies equally to stock options for corporations and unit options for limited liability companies, so don’t get thrown off by the terminology.) How does the board do this? You look at the plan,…