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I have moved my startup practice to Cooley from Dorsey

Just a quick post that I have moved my practice over to Cooley LLP. There are many reasons why I made this move, but fundamentally a move like this does not make any sense unless it’s a net benefit to clients. And I believe it will be a huge benefit for my clients. Cooley…

Job Description for a Startup CEO

posted Aug 23 in Employment, This and that

On various occasions we’ve looked at some serious employment law issues that startups face. On the lighter side, startup CEOs should be prepared for some fairly unorthodox job duties, such as Chief Barista. The video below shows how this would work with a demonstration from Corey Reese, CEO of our client Trumpet Technologies. This originally appeared in…

My new Headway theme

posted Jul 20 in This and that

I spent my last weekend adding a new theme – Headway – to my blog and teaching myself some basic CSS coding so I could customize the theme (together with my new best friend, Firebug). It’s not a drastic change to the look (yet), but I wanted to add a theme that was more customizable…