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Zig While Others Zag – Why now is the time for your start-up.

Success in business is more about who you are, not when you do it. A bad economy won't kill you, but a good economy won't save you.

Zig While Others Zag – Why now is the time for your start-up. Zig While Others Zag – Why now is the time for your start-up.

The Top 10 Mistakes by Start-up Businesses

Entrepreneurs are some amazing people, and create some amazing things – but they are not perfect.  Lots of entrepreneurs make mistakes - some fatal to their start-up business, some not.  The people over at YoungEntreprenuer.com have compiled a list of the Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Starting A Business.  I have seen a lot [...]

The Top 10 Mistakes by Start-up Businesses The Top 10 Mistakes by Start-up Businesses
Does Your Corporation Have ByLaws?  It Should.

Does Your Corporation Have ByLaws? It Should.

22 January 2010

Lots of start-up founders try to do things the easy way and create a corporation online with the Indiana Secretary of State, which has really one of the best, fastest, and easiest to use websites around.  This is a great way to start, and it will indeed form your corporation with Secretary of State and [...]

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Posted in Corporations, Starting a BusinessComments (0)

New Blog – FinePrintLawyer.com

New Blog – FinePrintLawyer.com

15 November 2009

Indianapolis attorney, Hannah Joseph, recently launched a new blog called FinePrintLawyer.com.  The blog takes a stab at an interesting niche – which Hannah describes as “…the legal angles of social media, marketing and advertising…common sense explanation of the tiny writing that clutters up all that nice marketing copy.” Check it out! var addthis_pub = 'brianvp44'; var addthis_language = [...]

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Posted in Business Contracts, Managing Your BusinessComments (1)

A Checklist for Internet Start-ups.

A Checklist for Internet Start-ups.

13 November 2009

Internet start-ups are a lot like traditional, brick and mortar businesses.  The require all of the same things I listed here. There are also some unique matters that must be attended to when starting and operating and Internet Business. Below is a checklist of some of the things every Internet start upshould have. A properly organized corporate entity.  Just [...]

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Are you a Blogger?  Check Out This Legal Primer for Bloggers.

Are you a Blogger? Check Out This Legal Primer for Bloggers.

12 November 2009

I get questions from friends and clients all the time about what is and isn’t ok to post on a blog in terms of copyrighted and trademarked materials.  The answer is not all that easy to explain, but Indianapolis attorney Kenan Farrel has an excellent post on his blog that does a nice job of [...]

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The 10 Ways Startup Advice Is Flawed

The 10 Ways Startup Advice Is Flawed

21 October 2009

Be careful taking advice from "successful" entrepreneurs, and make sure you can weed out the good advice from the bad.

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Posted in Running a Business, Starting a BusinessComments (0)

Private Placement – A Brief Overview of Rule 506

Private Placement – A Brief Overview of Rule 506

22 September 2009

One of the exemptions from the federal securities laws regarding the registration of offerings of securities comes in Rule 506. Rule 506 contains no limit on the amount of capital that can be raised in an offering

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Private Placements – A Brief Overview of Rule 505

Private Placements – A Brief Overview of Rule 505

21 September 2009

One of the exemptions from the federal securities laws regarding the registration of offerings of securities comes in Rule 505. Rule 505 allows a company to raise an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 over a twelve-month period

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Negotiating Fixed Legal Fees For Your Start-up

Negotiating Fixed Legal Fees For Your Start-up

18 September 2009

One great way for a start-up to save itself some money is to negotiate fixed fees for the transactional legal services it receives.

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Featured Start-Up – TrackPack Coolers LLC

Featured Start-Up – TrackPack Coolers LLC

17 September 2009

This Indianapolis based start-up makes one of the "coolest" products around - a backpack cooler that dispenses beverage cans right from your back.

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What is an Accredited Investor?

What is an Accredited Investor?

11 September 2009

One of the more common questions I get from clients interested in raising capital is "what is an accredited investor?" The answer is spelled out in fairly plain english in Rule 501 of Regulation D.

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