Author Archives: Jean Niehues

This is the second part of a guest post from Chad Otar, CEO of Excel Capital. You can read part one here.

This is a guest post from Chad Otar, CEO of Excel Capital A successful business can set you up financially– for life, with some grit and a little luck.

Mary Juetten’s second book, The Business of Legal: The Data-Driven Law Practice launched at the end of last month as a Kindle offering on Amazon.* Again written in plain English, with simple case studies, Juetten provides an approach for lawyers and other legal technicians to use data and process to drive change. Mary uses herContinue reading “The Business of Legal: The Data-Driven Law Practice by Nimbus Of Counsel Mary Juetten”

The advance of technology brings new problems that we are forced to grapple with. We’re confronted with problems that we’re ill-equipped to handle, because our society is forever trying to catch up to the last issue that upended some part of how we live or work or entertain ourselves.

Fighting piracy has proven to be one of the greatest challenges facing content creators in this century, and has proven troublesome ever since there existed the means to replicate the work of others. Creators lose billions collectively to piracy and theft, as too many others are all too willing to perpetrate a seemingly victimless crime.Continue reading “Supreme Court Copyright Ruling a Setback for Creators”

One truth about startups and innovation is that you need to build your product upon what is already there, to some degree. There are certain ideas that become accepted wisdom and certain things that are universally accepted features, and to go against those things would be setting yourself on an uphill path towards success. ThatContinue reading “Microsoft Offers Patents to Startups”

This is a guest post from Matt Troyer,  Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua.

You can read the first part of this post here.

When you’re starting your business, it’s natural to want to focus on the things that you want to do and accomplish and put some of the more tedious chores to the back-burner. You are the innovator, the dreamer, and what creative wants to be bogged down with the nitty-gritty of paperwork and forms and contracts?Continue reading “Potential Legal Issues Facing Startups”

This article was originally featured on Forbes.  Last fall I had the pleasure of interviewing Adam Camras, Lawgical co-founder and CEO on the topic of podcasting — more here.  Adam leads the popular Legal Talk Network, one of Lawgical’s brands, all headquartered in Denver, with an office in Los Angeles and a handful of remoteContinue reading “Lawgical: The Pros And Cons Of Bootstrapping Your Startup”