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The Limits of Legal Self-Help
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 09:43 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Every bootstrapper has a limited budget for attorney’s fees. Attorneys can help you foresee problems and craft contract language, which looks remarkable similar to English but is in fact code that is executed by the legal system.
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George Grellas on Insightful vs. “Window Dressing” Advisory Boards
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 19:17 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
George Grellas is an attorney in Cupertino whose firm has specialized in business and corporate law for more than 25 years. He has a number of excellent articles on startup legal issues “Startup Law 101 Series” including “Ten Essential Legal Tips for a Startup Team in Formation” that any team of two or more entrepreneurs should read. He posts on Hacker News from time to time and in response to a question “Should Your Startup Have an Advisory Board” posted a very cogent set of tips that have yet to make it to his website.
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Eleven Work Weeks–Or Less–Left in 2009
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 23:10 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I blogged about end of year issues last November in “6 Work Weeks or Less in 2008” and I thought I would issue the “Warning Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear” a little earlier this year because a lot of new businesses need to take action in the next few weeks to get ready for 2010.
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Bootstrappers Breakfast Is Now a Registered Trademark
Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 15:59 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
“Bootstrappers Breakfast” was registered June 23, 2009 as a trademark of SKMurphy, Inc. For education services, namely providing live and on-line seminars, workshops, and mentoring sessions in the field of entrepreneurship. No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “breakfast” apart from “Bootstrappers Breakfast.” Details as they unfold: we will do six breakfasts a month starting in July.
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Paul Lippe on an Entrepreneur’s Accountability
Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2009 - 12:06 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Paul Lippe is CEO of Legal OnRamp, a community of practice website for lawyers. He did a guest post on the AmLaw Daily Blog “Welcome to the Future: Leadership, Accountability, and Swimwear” that I enjoyed, in particular his observations on accountability were worth bearing in mind in 2009: Legal OnRamp strives to simplify innovation and value delivery, primarily for in=house lawyers but also for law firms, both by providing tools to innovate and by sharing examples of success. We have 7,000 members, probably 3,000 of whom have contributed content or otherwise added value.
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How I Avoid Sending E-Mail I Regret
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 05:00 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
By agreement with my business partners I don’t send any E-mail after 9pm unless it’s very very dull. If it’s the middle of the day and a misunderstanding is starting to spin out of control my mental guardbands are developed enough that I can say to myself “Enough, pick up the phone.” I have also learned that if I get voicemail when I call I just ask for a call back as casually and politely as I can, a voicemail can suffer from many of the same defects as an e-mail. I think it takes synchronous engagement to remind me that there is a person on the other end of the
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Why NDA’s Are Not On the Startup Maturity Checklist
Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 00:24 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
What follows is an e-mail thread converted into a blog entry. I got a suggestion on our contact form related to the Startup Maturity Checklist: Some software companies will require you to sign an NDA before giving a presentation or sharing any other details about the company’s product. You may want to add this to the checklist. My answer was that we don’t advise that approach.
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