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Is Your Word Your Bond?

The business law advisor gives you the simple solution to making verbal agreements. What’s this about a simple solution to…

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“Because Death Is Inevitable”

A lawyer colleague of mine, George Bischof, is part of a networking group that encourages you to end your elevator pitch…

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Working Wiggle Room into Your Deadlines

Don’t ask me where the time has flown! My computer crashed on Friday the 7th, so my trusty tech support,…

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Food for Thought on Strategic Partnerships

Consultant Mark Howell has a tidbit on the power and benefits of strategic partnerships that’s really worth pondering carefully over…

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Your ‘Contractor’ Might Be an Employee

The amount of control you have over your workers affects their legal definition. Entrepreneurs continually face an age-old conundrum: You…

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How can I transfer stock from an old business partner?

Q.:  How do I completely transfer stock from an old business partner back to myself?   A.:  You have not…

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How NOT to Propose a Joint Venture

Strategic alliances, joint ventures, collaborations . . . whatever you want to call them . . . are very delicate…

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10 Reasons to Form a Strategic Business Alliance

Yammer, yammer — for many, “strategic alliance” is just jargon and Newspeak.  One of the curious things about strategic alliances…

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When Alliance Partners Are Hard to Find

So you have a great product.  You love the features, believe it has great utility, and that it can make…

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How Entrepreneurs Should Write a Business Contract

I don’t advocate that entrepreneurs treat their legal work as a DIY project. And neither does California attorney Nina Yablok.…

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