Why you should back away from reverse mergers

By Rick Colosimo / June 18, 2010 / Comments Off on Why you should back away from reverse mergers

This LinkedIn question asking about reverse mergers is a question I’ve answered for a lot of entrepreneurs who get pitched by these folks and are invariably misled confused about where, how, and whether this deal brings money into the company. “What is a reverse merger or reverse IPO?” Short answer: “reverse merger” is almost always…

Getting crowdfunding wrong

By Rick Colosimo / May 28, 2010 / Comments Off on Getting crowdfunding wrong

Here’s a link to a brief article about crowdsourcing as applied to startups. Grade for this article? Nominally 80% for 4 out of 5 right, but the wrong answer on financing can kill a company. This one gets a #FAIL from me. Hearkening back (or forward, since I don’t know if I’ve posted it yet)…

Tough legal job market is now just plain ugly for some

By Rick Colosimo / May 28, 2010 / Comments Off on Tough legal job market is now just plain ugly for some

I’ve written before about the growing inconsistency between the actual job market for lawyers and the jobs that law schools tell prospective students about. Here’s a recent Above the Law post on a job that really doesn’t appear all that worthwhile, really. This is a downgrade from the $12 job they link to at the…

Is branding a 1st Amendment right?

By Rick Colosimo / May 25, 2010 / Comments Off on Is branding a 1st Amendment right?

This interesting Neuromarketing post on a proposed Australian law to eviscerate the branding value of cigarette packaging is a doozy. Separate from the inherent interest in the notion that the pack may be far more powerful than the cigarette (and I like both Why We Buy and Call of the Mall by Paco Underhill as…