30 Mar, 2023 Buffalo Startup Scene Enters New Chapter By Matthew Pelkey For the last three years I have had the pleasure of writing this editorial for Business First as part of their startup edition;...
14 Mar, 2023 Should I stay or should I go? Startups clash with uncertainty over SVB debt. By Matthew Pelkey The collapse this week of Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") certainly reminds many of us of the early days in the 2008 mortgage foreclosure...
20 Feb, 2023 The SEC sets its eyes on Venture Capital. By Matthew Pelkey The SEC has had its eyes on the VC market for over a year now and a new proposed rule may fundamentally change the VC regulatory...
06 Jul, 2022 Starting Up: Colligan Law Client Making Waves Art Studio Opens in Parkside By Alexander Vilardo When my good friend and now client, Katie Hujer, approached me about her startup idea, I couldn’t have been happier. I knew Katie was an...
04 May, 2022 Angel Investing In Buffalo New York By David Colligan Now that Buffalo has crossed the $500 million annual investment mark in early stage startups in Buffalo New York people want to learn how...
01 Apr, 2022 Buffalo: A Startup City a Decade Later By Matthew Pelkey A decade ago, few could predict whether the efforts to make Buffalo a vibrant startup community would work. Many of us believed it could,...
06 Mar, 2022 Starting up right: LLC vs. C-corp By Matthew Pelkey I recently had the pleasure of writing for BuffaloInno about some of the issues founders should consider when starting up a business. In...
15 Feb, 2022 SEC signals private markets are next on the agenda. By Matthew Pelkey A recent report by PitchBook details movements inside the SEC indicating the agency may be taking aim at further regulation of private...
06 Feb, 2022 When should I file my trademark application? By Margot Knab I often work with business owners who understand the importance of protecting their intellectual property but insist that it is something...
08 Dec, 2021 Buffalo is on the national VC funding radar! By David Colligan This report from Rise of the Rest shows that Buffalo now appears on the list of locales outside of Silicon Valley, Boston or New York...
19 Oct, 2021 App Developers Take Note: HIPAA Breach Notification Rules Apply To You By Leah Ranke The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a policy brief confirming that apps including health care apps, finders, trackers, and...
15 Oct, 2021 Don’t Ruin Your Startup: 5 Legal Mistakes For Startups to Avoid By Matthew Pelkey I recently had the pleasure of writing an editorial piece for Buffalo Inno (part of Business First) on the 5 most common mistakes I see...
11 Aug, 2021 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up...Your Cap Table? By Margot Knab I get it; we are all busy. Businesses big and small, founders, and entrepreneurs of all varieties are often forced to focus their...
17 Jul, 2021 Seeking Equity: Venture Funding for Black Founders Quadrupled in 2021, But Remains Elusive By Matthew Pelkey 2021 has seen a significant increase in venture investment in Black startups by nearly every metric according to a report recently...
26 Jun, 2021 Why startups fail...and perhaps what we can do about it. By Matthew Pelkey A recent article in Harvard Business Review posed a relatively straightforward question: why do startups fail? We all know that more than...
26 May, 2021 Another Software Reports HIPAA Compliance Failures By Leah Ranke Scheduling software Zocdoc announced this week that for the second time, their software as a service product failed to be HIPAA...