What Entrepreneurs Can Do In 2013 To Manage Risk
December 30, 2012Polsinelli Shughart attorney Brian Salmo offers tips to help entrepreneurs protect their IP and manage risk in 2013.
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Polsinelli Shughart attorney Brian Salmo offers tips to help entrepreneurs protect their IP and manage risk in 2013.
2012 was the year that Chicago took a place at the table next to New York City and Silicon Valley as one of the great innovative centers in America. Techli was lucky enough to witness these greatest wins for the Chicago startup scene in 2012.
If you’re an entrepreneur, it’s time to put away your mom’s famous Christmas cookies and get back to work today. While the rest of your 9-to-5er friends are on an extended vacation until 2012, you’ve got five days of distraction-free work between now and the new year.
St. Louis won’t avoid the Series A crunch because of freakishly high local investments in local tech next year, but rather because the startup community is great at keeping the startups afloat who deserve it.
Beware the inexperienced angel investors, who are more like wolves in sheeps’ clothing than potential partners who will help your venture grow.
The world of business is often thought of as cold and heartless. Tall skyscrapers employing thousands of people in well-tailored suits set only on sealing the deal at any.
Tara A. Nealey and Charles C. Vos, attorneys in the St. Louis office of Polsinelli Shughart PC, give advice to entrepreneurs about corporate IP.
Just because you work in the hard sciences doesn’t mean that you don’t have to use the softer skills like communication and relationship building.
As the hustler half of the classic hustler / hacker startup team, I’ve employed all of these email tactics to line up an incredible number of high caliber meetings over the past month. The key is to warm up your cold emails. Here’s how.
Jenny Dibble knows more than a little bit about entrepreneurship. Dibble started her first web development business in the eighth grade by teaching herself to code and began designing websites for local businesses in her hometown. Now that Dibble has founded and sold her biggest venture to date, she is reaching out to other women in the St. Louis entrepreneurial community to create a network of experienced, professional entrepreneurs who want to help each other take their careers to the next level.