Legal Services for Startups & Savvy Businesses in Colorado
If you were getting a divorce, would you ask your soon-to-be-ex-spouse for a divorce lawyer referral? No, you wouldn’t, because that would be so obviously stupid that no rational person would ever consider such an idea. Your soon-to-be-ex-spouse would be the last person you would want to help you in that scenario. Then why would […]
One of my biggest pet peeves with lawyers is when I hear the expression, “there’s a risk here.” In life, there’s always a risk. There’s a risk to waking up in the morning and getting out of bed. There’s a risk to walking your dog on the street. There’s a risk to NOT getting out […]
When you’re a startup lawyer, part of your job is to serve as a document merchant. It’s part of the job, but it’s probably my least favorite part of the job. I love learning from startups. I love working with startups. Working with growing startups to make them better — that’s just what we do. Providing high-quality documents […]
What is the secret to a successful startup? That is a question with many answers. Via Techcrunch, this article offers three lessons learned from working with the Kogi BBQ company, a pioneer in the food truck industry. The main takeaway? Creating a culture that your employees and customers embrace. Speaking of culture, this piece from the New York Times […]
We all want readers. We all want traffic. We all want money and fame and recognition and notoriety and to give a TED talk where we wear a sport coat on a stage in front of wealthy luminaries and talk about our own personal narratives and why they matter. And so we all have blogs. […]
This is a question I try to ask all startups that hire me at the very beginning. And while some startups know right away why they’re doing what they’re doing, a few struggle to answer. Having seen hundreds of startups in their birthing stages, I think the answer to this question drives the answers to […]
I’ve been reading a lot about startups and authenticity lately. Like mindfulness, it seems to be one of the new buzzwords of the startup universe. Marc Andreessen is obsessed with it. Mark Suster wrote a popular blog post about it recently. Nassim Taleb likes to refer to some purported intellectuals as charlatans, which I suppose is a […]