Having written this post, I am quite hungry.
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Bad visual puns aside, the impact of a change of control on stock vesting is actually really important to understand, whether you’re a startup founder, key hire, or investor.
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Nobody likes rejection. So getting an office action to your trademark application is no fun. But don’t lose hope: you may be able to overcome the office action.
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Trademark application filing fees are going up for 2021.
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Read about the non-compete statutory earnings threshold updates for 2021 recently issued by L&I.
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Minimum wage means minimum wage, even for startup founders and initial hires. Startups can’t use equity grants to get around this, though there are strategies (albeit imperfect) to mitigate risk here.
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If you thought contracts were boring, just wait until you read about insurance clauses within contracts! So, yes, this can be boring but, like eating vegetables, also very important, particularly if you’re a freelancer or a company that works with freelancers.
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Trademark law does not permit trademarks that are primarily geographically descriptive of the underlying goods or services to be registered on the principal register.
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The title of this post may sound like a straight-to-streaming rom-com about two strangers who wake up after a night out in Vegas only to remember they got married in a drive-thru ceremony the night before. Yet, somehow, it’s worse than that.
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Entrepreneurs may be able to use business losses to offset other income, provided the business is structured properly from a tax perspective.
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While using “finders fees” to help raise investment for startups seems innocent enough, it’s actually a regulatory minefield that should either be avoided altogether or navigated with extreme caution.
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In the latest installment of “what do words even mean” we bring you a mercifully short entry on the difference between LLC allocations and distributions.
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