Posts Tagged ‘intellectual property’
RERL-1654-Growing Your Business – Your competitors represent an opportunity… seize it.
It’s easy to think that having to deal with competitors could be irritating for your growing business, but if you look closely they actually represent an opportunity. Today Jack Russo takes over the studio with special guest, Joe Hence, whose company uses moral capitalism to take on retail giants. Buysycle aims to help consumers buy…
Read MoreRERL-1642-Growing Your Business – Legally Protecting Your Technology
The total is greater than the sum of its parts. Starting a business with this saying in mind you realize you can do things that will either nurture or hurt it. Any competitive business in a competitive economy will have its zigs and zags. Anticipating the potential for injury is something entrepreneurs must think about…
Read MoreRERL-1606-Stock Options and Other Incentive Plans
At this point in your business you’ve had investors and you’ve issued shares. Incentive plans are becoming more normal in the workplace, but they way their being used is changing. Stocks are a great way to set up a special bonus plan if the business gets sold and your stock hasn’t vested. Today Joe and…
Read MoreRERL-1597-Growing Your Business – Bringing on Partners
Congratulations! You’ve made it to the level of growing your business! By now your business is looks like it’s actually going to work, consumers are giving you thumbs up and more people are needed to make your business run. Bringing on a partner can be exciting and complicated and in some ways as serious as…
Read MoreRERL-1594-Growing Your Business
In 2018 Jack Russo joined the RERL team and taught us just about the concepts and steps one needs to take when starting a business. One year later 2019 is time to change gears and discuss growing your business. This time Joe and Jack will address major questions regarding how to accelerate your growth and what…
Read MoreRERl-1535-When a crisis is the threat of litigation
No matter how much effort you put into crisis prevention anything could happen that puts serious strain on a new company. Even if you’ve already gotten the domain name with the intent-to-use trademark, another company could come out of nowhere and start causing issues. What can you do? Today Joe and Jack Russo discuss how…
Read MoreRERL-1526-Attorney Jack Russo Discusses Risk Management
Everything you do in forming and growing a business is all about creating sustainable value. Today Joe and Jack Russo tackle the tricky task every company big or small faces: managing risk! Specific topics include: Life and half life of businesses Anticipating risks and needs What to do if you have to face your worse…
Read MoreRERL-1491-Starting Something In Silicon Valley –Part VII
It’s quite hard to believe how far we’ve come these past two months in the Starting Something series. So far Jack Russo has taken us from the idea phase, to the startup, to raising capital and it seems we’re finally ready to take the next step. Today Joe and Jack tackle different contract classes and attacking…
Read MoreStarting Something In The Silicon Valley –Part II
Are you ready entrepreneurs? Last week Computerlaw Group’s Jack Russo joined Joe to outline how to get startup ideas out of your head and onto paper. This week Jack returns to RERL to continue our series that teaches entrepreneurs the next steps that bring their startups to life. Specific topics include: Domain names and trademarks…
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