Canceling an initial public offering at the last minute, terminating a years-long process and killing insiders’ financial dreams, is incredibly painful. When LegalZoom withdrew its IPO the day before its scheduled climax on August 3, the immediate waste of $3.5 million in cash was probably bearable. The likely damage to the firm’s reputation and relationships…
DetailsI received a most unusual email Sunday afternoon. It was from a fellow named Quentin Solt from Warwick, a small town about 100 miles northwest of London. Quentin and I had first met by email the previous Thursday morning when our online store didn’t behave properly and he needed a bit of help purchasing TheFormTool.…
DetailsAlthough it happened only once, the memory is vivid. Knowing that a fight was brewing, I slipped a can of spinach into my school uniform pants pocket, to be opened and eaten just before hostilities broke out. With that I could be confident that sudden surge of energy would power me to a quick and…
DetailsI started using Parallels 6 about a year ago with the hope that it would allow me to enjoy TheFormTool on my MacBook PRO 8GB laptop, which is my main machine. That wasn’t possible; that version was a memory hog of the first order, slow to start, inconvenient. Spending time getting familiar with our Dell…
DetailsWe’ve reorganized the Video Support page, putting the video snippets into subject matter order and then in order of sophistication. With these 20 videos, an average user can go from TFT novice to rocket scientist in just over an hour of attentive viewing.
DetailsLarge numbers of the members of the audiences at our webinars have asked for their own copies of the forms used to illustrate TheFormTool’s features. We’ve just added a package of four “Simple Samples” to our resource list, available for downloading. They demonstrate best practices to simply and easily build: Master Lists Conditional rows in…
DetailsTheFormTool, LLC is pleased to announce that the Washington State Bar Association (https://www.wsba.org) has chosen to sponsor TheFormTool as a new benefit for its 34,000 lawyer members. TheFormTool is user-friendly and powerful productivity software for lawyers seeking to reduce document errors, improve client service and reduce costs. TheFormTool reduces errors by eliminating “cut & paste”…
DetailsA friend of mine is in the midst of acquiring a public shell company. He was referred to a law firm with substantial experience in the area that claims expertise. By actual count there were more than 20 material errors in the “final” documentation. The firm describes them as merely typos, the kind of error…
DetailsWe’re going to spin off TheFormTool software distribution operations into a separate company, TheFormTool, LLC, early in 4Q 2012. “We’ve been amazed at the world-wide enthusiasm for TheFormTool since its introduction more than a year ago,” said Bob Christensen. “As the fastest-growing, most user-friendly and powerful document assembly and forms automation software in the world,…
Details(Second of three) To be useful, new technology needs to meet three standards. It must be powerful, simple and cost-effective. Simple Nothing, absolutely nothing substitutes for simplicity in the use of technology; not money, not staff, not sophistication. Only when technology is in its formative stages, when it’s still developing rapidly, short of a revolutionary…
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