One universal issue every business faces, regardless of the industry: When you have an opening should you hire ready-made talent. Which do you prefer: hiring talent or developing talent? But I prefer to look for trainable talent as opposed to talent I can hire in. So if I'm not into skydiving you won't hire me? MORE >>

I’ve spent a lot of time fighting in court about intellectual property ownership and cleaning up startup’s IP messes. In the many years I’ve been practicing intellectual property (“IP”) law, I’ve seen a wide range of mistakes and bad practices that have cost emerging growth companies millions of dollars.  MORE >>

Clarify and Transfer Ownership of Intellectual Property. Of course, as an intellectual property lawyer, this one is my favorite.  A well drafted contract will specify who owns any intellectual property rights that are created in the course of the deal. Below is a quick summary of my favorite benefits: 1.  MORE >>

One of the biggest, most frequent mistakes I see as an intellectual property attorney is a startups’s lack of ownership to all of the exclusive rights to the intellectual property created for it. Jill Hubbard Bowman is an intellectual property attorney who helps startup companies own their IP. MORE >>

By carefully recognizing and focusing upon the very core of the business, these CEOs are allocating their scarce cash resources to hire the best talent they can find to support that core business, and then reaching out to partners, independent contractors, and other small businesses to provide all other functions. MORE >>