Rick Colosimo

I recently launched a preferred financing calculations tool for you. It’s an online spreadsheet for you to enter some basic capitalization information, a target pre-money valuation, and a target investment amount. It then shows you the results for your cap table. Some inherent things about venture math that are embodied here but that you might…

Someone recently sent me a link to this advice that startups should never say “we have no competition.” I think it’s good advice. I just saw a pitch deck for a real estate investment that used the phrase “conservative assumptions.” That’s another phrase that should just go away. No one ever claims the opposite: “This…

Some time ago, I wrote a Five-minute General Counsel post on how to approach the question of whether a social enterprise fits a founder’s needs. In that post, I focused on the issue of whether the concept of fiduciary duties and the prudent investor standard were as anathema to “social” goals as some people think.…

One of the easiest ways to improve the readability of your contracts is to use shorter sentences. I don’t even mean that you have to trim each sentence. If all you do is turn compound sentences into two sentences, you will help the reader. In addition, by eliminating coordinating conjunctions, you clarify the meaning of…