Law for Entrepreneurs

I often get the question: “Isn’t disclosing my confidential information OK as long as I use an NDA?”  My answer is always: “An NDA doesn’t really protect you.  You should probably use one, but you should only disclose confidential information to people on a need-to-know basis.”  For my other bottom line recommendations re: NDA use, [...]

Last week, I attended the 2010 Conference on Entrepreneurship (http://www NULL.stanford NULL.edu/group/econference/index NULL.html) held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Here are a few nuggets of wisdom I found particularly valuable and/or interesting:

What’s the best way to conduct a search without using a search firm?  Andy Price of Schweichler Price & Partners (http://www NULL.schweichler [...]

See Items 1, 3 and 4 from “Negotiating a Transaction.”  And add some extra doses of humor, compassion and empathy.  (Thanks to my therapist sister Lisa for this insight. When she read my “Negotiating a Transaction” post, she said “Sounds just like what you should do in a marriage!”)
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The other day, I went to my neighborhood bank to open a business account.  When I told the account manager that I was an attorney, he suddenly became incredibly deferential.  Given that my three-year old daughter is often somewhat less than deferential to me, I initially appreciated this respect.  But then got to wondering: why [...]