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The #MeToo era has created new challenges for entrepreneurs and startups. Cautionary tales abound of startups whose hard-partying culture resulted in sexual harassment, hostile work Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
In 1979, Personal Software began selling Visicalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet. Visicalc was so compelling, people bought Apple II computers just so they could use Visicalc, making it the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Dustin Slade
The Law and the Entrepreneur course at Bradley University explores the legal aspects of the different options for structuring a business -- LLCs, sole proprietor, partnerships and others. In 2011, I Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Tanya Marcum
Introduction In October of 2014, Frances Courtepointe 1 started a Kickstarter campaign for her venture Phenom Fabrics 1 . She promised hand dyed fabric "fat-quarter" cuts - a 18” x 22” Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Authors: Eden Blair and Tanya Marcum
Is it possible to transform a staid and professionally respectable but entrenched legal industry? Yes, particularly when one of your startup founders is a multi-talented serial entrepreneur, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Nicholas Vitalari
In the alphabet soup of corporate structuring, being an “L3C” says that a company is committed to social or environmental goals as well as its stockholders. Unlike the nonprofit Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Eden Blair , Tanya Marcum and Veronika Koubova
Regulations can destroy even the best entrepreneurial dream. To help entrepreneurship thrive in this nation, Institute for Justice (IJ) a public interest law firm that has successfully defended Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: John Kramer and Nick Sibilla
Intellectual property -- a legal concept that refers to the product or fruits of human creativity for which exclusive rights are recognized -- is often critical to the success of both product- and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: James Hoffman , Bradley Ewing and Mark A. Thompson