Introduction to Privacy and Business Ownership Many first-time business owners worry about the privacy of their personal information. For a savvy entrepreneur, running a business does not have to mean disclosing everything about your life to the public. Instead, use a variety of legal, financial, and common sense strategies [...]
Payment of Finder’s Fees for Securities Sales in California California’s new law permitting payment of finder’s fees to middlemen in securities purchases creates new business incentives within the state. However, the law contradicts a long-held Securities and Exchange Commission policy against finder’s fees. Essentially, California has legalized payment of [...]
How Can I Prevent Employees from Leaking Ideas? “Loose lips sink ships.” This common saying describes the fate of businesses whose employees, either inadvertently or on purpose, share ideas with others without permission. Competitors may learn of the ideas or even pay employees for them and then use them [...]
What to Promise Investors and What to Keep to Yourself If You Want to Stay Out of Court Promoting your business to investors could land you in court if you run afoul of the detailed and complicated California and federal laws surrounding sale of securities. This post focuses on [...]
What Is the Difference Between Federal Securities Laws and California Securities Laws, and How Do They Apply to Me? Both the state of California and the federal government have laws about securities on the books, but the two sets of laws differ significantly. Federal and California securities laws cover [...]
Protect Your Business from Data Security Breaches After hearing about the many data security breaches in the past few years, you may have wondered how breaches can be prevented, either at a business you own or the ones you patronize. Though hackers are becoming more sophisticated, smaller businesses need [...]
