Excess capital and negative spread

By rickColosimo / March 29, 2006 / Comments Off on Excess capital and negative spread

Geoffrey Colvin, the star of our last post, is once again delivering basic finance concepts to the masses in his all-too-short article on the AT&T- BellSouth merger. Believe us, basic is the level that many corporate finance & management teams are working at, so Colvin is doing shareholders a favor (we can assume a broad…

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Cash, Debt, and WACC

By rickColosimo / March 6, 2006 / Comments Off on Cash, Debt, and WACC

A recent Fortune article by Geoffrey Colvin discusses the relatively low percentage of debt in the capital structure of a large percentage of US public companies (he cites that “25% of the Russell 3000 have no debt or negative debt”). His primary point is that by not having “enough” debt, companies are suffering from a…

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Model venture financing documents

By rickColosimo / March 9, 2004 / Comments Off on Model venture financing documents

NVCA Model Financing Documents

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Freeing up the social graph

By rickColosimo / September 22, 2003 / Comments Off on Freeing up the social graph

WSJ.com – Real Time: “Friendster has various community-related plans to make money off the network. But we can see some other applications. For instance, Friendster could license its service to law enforcement. Forget the photos pinned on the corkboard: Just plug in profiles for all the major players, and see connections that weren’t obvious before.…

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