I am thrilled to announce I will be joining the international law firm of Duane Morris (www.duanemorris.com) as a corporate partner in their NYC office as of July 14. This over 700-attorney (and growing) firm is extremely well-known in the middle market transactional world and...

A pretty bold experiment indeed. A ragtag group of rebels fought against the greatest Empire in the history of our tiny orb and were successful. The idea: let's combine a bunch of smaller places with a central government but local control as much as possible....

What do you do when an important decision is looming? Signing a key vendor. Offering equity to an important employee. A significant hire. Adding or deleting a product or service. Or even bigger ones like selling the company or shutting down. Do you dwell on...

When looking at outlines of the interrelationship between various components of an entrepreneurial company's structure, what is at the center? Manufacturing? Finance? Investor relations? While all are important, I have found that for most growing companies, pretty much everything should flow from a central focus...