Ben Oelsner

KO Law Firm was recently recognized as a winner of the inaugural Legal Innovation in Operations Project (LIO Project) award run by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), a global organization focused on redefining the business of law. The recognition honors law firms that have achieved innovation and design excellence…

Common pitfalls for Software as a Service (SaaS) deals occur during negotiation due to unnecessary friction with customers and other various roadblocks. These roadblocks can result in a slower sales process, increased transaction costs, and delay or even loss of potential revenue. Making a few key changes to how you…

KO client Terma Software, which provides solutions for enterprise workload automation, was recently acquired by Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader for semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, for an undisclosed amount. Terma’s acquisition will enhance Broadcom’s Automation.ai platform by adding new workload intelligence and analytics sources and enabling actionable…

Organizations we work with are often focused on a couple of key goals: (1) Hit a revenue or profitability target; (2) Secure financing, investment or exit; or (3) Overall company growth, such as increasing sales. Unfortunately, many companies slow their progress, miss their target or aren’t ready when that financing…

Insights from Contracts Management Expert Andrea Policky As a new year approaches, many of us are making new resolutions or perhaps recommitting to good habits we’ve lost, making it a great time to reflect on your business’ achievements and goals for 2019. While year-end reporting and financial management can be…

The most successful companies have operationalized legal. As they seek to increase valuation, minimize costs, increase flexibility and effectively manage their essential legal needs, best-in-class companies are causing a global paradigm shift in the legal marketplace by fundamentally changing how they use legal services. Innovative companies are seeking legal assistance from a growing number of non-lawyer professionals and testing new alternative billing models, so they can “do more with less.”

At the same time, businesses make decisions more quickly and with more real-time information than ever before. In any growing business, legal operations must keep pace to avoid missing out on key opportunities or making decisions in the dark.

For more than 15 years, KO has partnered with thousands of entrepreneurs and emerging companies to help them grow by providing strategic, practical business solutions and just the right amount of lawyering. This week, KO continued its support for local entrepreneurs by participating in Longmont Startup Week, an event organized…

KO partners Ben Oelsner and Dan Fredrickson recently attended the SaaStr Annual conference in San Francisco where they met with a number SaaS companies to discuss ways they could improve and streamline their contracting with customers. Ben and Dan counseled companies on how to navigate the contracting process to close SMB and enterprise deals…