3/14/2023 2:11:03 PM 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...
7/6/2022 11:20:56 PM 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...
5/4/2022 4:39:46 PM 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...
3/6/2022 4:26:43 PM 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...
2/6/2022 9:09:22 PM 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...
12/8/2021 4:53:07 PM 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...
6/26/2021 11:58:18 PM 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...
11/18/2020 8:14:39 PM Erie County municipalities transition from "yellow" to "orange" By Alexander Vilardo On Wednesday, November 18, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that parts of Western New York have transitioned from "yellow" to "orange" on...
10/23/2020 4:43:06 PM It is never too late to get after it. By Margot Knab The numbers are in: the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a mass exodus of women from the workforce in the United States. The U.S. Bureau...
10/11/2020 4:17:49 PM Streamlined PPP forgiveness application available to some borrowers By Alexander Vilardo Recently, the Small Business Administration announced that small businesses that received PPP loans of $50,000 or less are eligible for a...
9/14/2020 5:08:25 PM Buffalo's startup ecosystem in the age of COVID. By David Colligan One observer's impression on COVID-19's effect on the Buffalo Start-Up ecosystem.
8/30/2020 7:32:27 PM Farming ideas: Tech is changing agriculture in Western New York By Colligan Law I was recently interviewed by Buffalo Business First and the Buffalo Law Journal as part of a feature about how start ups and tech...