Business & Corporate

Welcome to the World of Business

It all starts with a thought. An idea, so compelling, that it gets you out of bed at night. You are inspired. Like you, almost 29 million Americans turned thoughts into small businesses that fuel our economy.

Starting your own business, however, can be a complicated process. Choosing the right type of entity, funding startup costs, coming up with a marketing plan, and protecting your ideas from competitors are critical decisions to make at the very early stages of this journey.

However, let’s face it, getting advice, and contracting professional services from experts to help you make these crucial decisions can get expensive, not to mention time-consuming. You’d rather focus your time and money on that which inspired you to do this in the first place. The last thing you want is to spend your valuable resources speaking to and paying for lawyers, accountants, internet developers, web hosting companies, and designers. So you take the easy route. You register your own company with your state division of corporations, sign up with free providers for internet marketing services, and get started. As the business grows, your short term solutions no longer fit the bill, and a few years later, you’re writing checks to four or five different vendors each selling you snake oil.

While this may seem like a good short term solution, that compelling idea that got you out of bed deserves better.

From a legal perspective, you may be creating long term liability for your business and yourself that puts what you’ve worked so hard to build at risk. You may decide to bring on employees, investors or partners, and not have chosen the right business entity to facilitate that.

It may sound like an oversimplification, but there is a better way.

When starting a business, the advice of a Legal & Business Affairs professional can save you time and money in the long term, by providing a suite of services you may not consider at such an early stage of your entrepreneurship endeavors.

Critical matters such as selecting the right type of business entity, maintaining compliance with local business tax authorities, protecting your intellectual property through non-disclosure agreements or copyright protection, and ensuring any contracts or agreements your business requires you to sign aren’t betting the farm, need to be addressed by a professional with the experience necessary to be able to properly advise you on how to succeed in achieving your strategic goals.

In today’s world, however, there is a “tech twist” required that few legal professionals alone posses. There is a considerable skillset gap between traditional lawyers and strategic technology business advisors. You understand the role needs to be filled, but wish it did not require two professionals.

The problem is a generational one. Experienced lawyers tend to be technology averse, and strategic technology business advisors tend to be inexperienced with the legal and practical issues businesses face.

The ideal professional that will advise you on your legal matters should also be one that has experience in the fast-paced and continuously changing world of technology solutions that can facilitate you achieving your goals.

With over 20 years of experience as an attorney and strategic technology business advisor, I have developed service offerings that fit every business and every budget.