Gary Levine is the CEO and Founder of Two Step Software which provides market leading solutions for stock plan administration, equity compensation reporting, and corporate governance. Gary discusses issues affecting capitalization management, stock option expensing, corporate compliance, and technology. His perspective is based on 20 years of experience working with venture-capital and private-equity backed companies both as a software veteran and former General Counsel. You can find more at his blog: Capitalization Matters.
By Gary Levine - Let me ask you a question: do you brush your teeth every day? Or just the week before a dental check up?
Imagine if the only time your teeth were brushed was twice a year at the dentist. It wouldn't be a very pleasant visit (not that they ever are, actually). Well, that's the situation too many law firm clients find themselves in when they’re ready for a corporate event or transaction. ...
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By Gary Levine - Corporations depend on their CFOs to report "the numbers" each period. But what happens when these numbers are based on data that’s being tracked at the company's law firm—instead of internally? ...
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By Gary Levine - In the past few weeks, I’ve met two corporate paralegals who have been using our product, Corporate Focus, to track minute book and capitalization information for many years. Because they’re each tracking upwards of 1,000 client companies for their firms, they keep pretty busy. ...
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By Gary Levine - Over the past 30 days, I came across four articles that made me sense a shift in the air regarding online access to legal client data. Collectively, these pieces focused on a trend that’s sweeping the corporate landscape: Realizing the tremendous productivity and client service benefits—and the fact that email, laced with inefficiency and security issues, simply isn’t cutting it anymore—lawyers are finally getting comfortable with the idea of their confidential client data being stored somewhere outside the four walls of the firm. ...
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By Gary Levine - I recently attended an event at the MIT Media Lab sponsored by TheFunded.com, a social networking website geared toward CEOs and founders of start-up companies who want to share war stories of trying to get VC or angel seed funding. 150 CEOs and start-up founders were invited to attend. (I showed up because many of these companies use our product Equity Focus or their law firm uses our product Corporate Focus to track their capitalization after their first VC round or when they create an employee stock option plan.) ...
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Gary Levine is the CEO and Founder of 
