Seven Legal Pitfalls Your Startup Should Avoid
Picking the wrong founder or legal entity, unintended partners, intellectual property snafus...so many things can derail your budding business.
Picking the wrong founder or legal entity, unintended partners, intellectual property snafus...so many things can derail your budding business.
Entrepreneurial ventures must quantify the loss when their ideas are stolen and their competitive advantage disappears -- before it happens.
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Critical Aspects of Owners Agreements
In virtually any proposed business venture with two or more owners, there are many issues to be identified, negotiated and reflected in appropriate organizational agreements. This is an outline of typical owners issues to negotiate in new business ventures.
This article continues the discussion of common legal, regulatory, and fundraising mistakes that derail even the most promising startups.
A significant problem for every entrepreneur is traversing a legal minefield where missteps are unforgiving and often fatal. Having an attorney on your board can help.
'LC3' is not the Good Housekeeping seal. Socially- and environmentally-conscious companies may want to try something else.
Many law schools around the US provide free legal services to entrepreneurs, small businesses & others. Here's a directory of some public interest law clinics.
Jon Eckhardt
The Law and the Entrepreneur course at Bradley University explores the legal aspects of the different options for structuring a business.
New businesses today have both a mandate and an opportunity to build a workplace that not only complies with laws against sexual harassment, but also makes every employee feel respected, safe and comfortable.
Licensing is OK for doctors and other fields where government-mandated education and testing make sense. But some states require a license to trim trees, tell fortunes or even sell flowers.
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