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Class Explores Legal Aspects of Business Entities

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

When Kickstarter Campaigns Don’t Deliver: A Case Study of Phenom Fabrics

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

LegalZoom Co-Founder: Trick Yourself to do the Impossible

  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

'L3C' Designation Doesn't Matter to Consumers

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

How Small Business Owners Can Overcome Terrible Regulations

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

How Much Are Your Trade Secrets Worth? Here's How to Figure It Out

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