AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 4: Preparing for a Transaction? What Emerging Growth Companies Need to Know
JONES DAY TALKS®: A Trip to the Dark Side – Venture Capital Down Rounds and Recaps
Seeing into the Future: Moving Beyond AI to Visual Intelligence with Oculi CEO Charbel Rizk
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 204: Accelerating Life Sciences Startups with James Chappell of SCbio
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - Why Raise Capital?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 202: Life Sciences Startups and Industry Developments with Gil Price, Life Sciences Leader
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - The Aspects of Raising Capital from Start-Ups to More Established Companies
Embracing Change & Community: The Keys To Startup Success With Chris Heivly
The Best of Founder Shares: Highlights Wisdom of Season's Guests
Welcome to “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices”
Legal Challenges Part 1 – Setting Up Your Startup for Success
A Conversation with Janade du Plessis of Launch Africa Ventures: Balancing Sustainable Development with ROI
The Force is Strong with this One – Success and Paying it Forward with Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor and Spiffy Scot Wingo
Hunting Outsized Returns with Jason Caplain of Bull City Venture Partners
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 182: Life Sciences Startups and Leadership with Scott Pancoast of Zylo Therapeutics
Through the Lens: From serial entrepreneur to neutral who gets deals done - Focus on Daniel Garrie
From Academia to the Marketplace: The Ins and Outs of University Spinout Licenses with Dan O’Korn
Food for Thought and Thoughts on Food: A Discussion on Scaling in Food and Other Industries
Staying on Track and Giving Back with Bill Spruill
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 171: Laura Gunter, President of the NC Life Sciences Organization
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The President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which included SECURE Act 2.0, on December 29, 2022. SECURE Act 2.0 has over 90 provisions, some major and some minor; some mandatory and some optional; some...more
Startups are faced with a myriad of choices on how to allocate limited capital for their needs. Some startups explore hiring interns as either a free or low-cost labor option. However, management needs to be wary of the...more
Summer has come and gone, but there was no summer vacation for employee benefits legislation and guidance. In case you have been too busy to check out our blogs lately, here are some key items to help you stay organized and...more
Mere months after an announced major investment in start-up electric truck company Nikola (and the subsequent claims that the company had “exaggerated its capabilities), General Motors announced this week that it had...more
Blaming a “U.S. move to impose tariffs on French goods,” luxury brand conglomerate LMVH is pulling out of a proposed $16 billion deal to buy jeweler Tiffany & Co. Tiffany is now suing to enforce the ill-fated agreement....more
Top Tidjane Thiam ally Pierre-Olivier Bouee, Credit Suisse’s COO, has resigned in the wake of an internal probe finding that he “ordered the surveillance of the bank’s former wealth-management chief, Iqbal Khan, without...more
Well, that was remarkably quick. Just days after WeWork’s board announced that it was considering replacing co-founder Adam Neumann to help clear a path to the work-share-startup’s initial public offering, Neumann stepped...more
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The gig economy (on-demand work) is a disruptive factor in many industries, including the housing market (Airbnb, Homeaway), transportation services (Uber, Lyft, Juno, Via), delivery services (Postmates, Caviar, Instacart),...more
Behind the pomp and circumstance of Friday’s inauguration, President Donald J. Trump and his administration set their sights on deploying a new guard of regulatory and economic policies focused on reducing burdensome...more
The past month’s judicial and administrative activity in the area of IC misclassification reflects the wide range of industries facing these types of claims: communications; cleaning services; transportation and delivery...more
Everything’s coming up Saudi these days, as Uber revealed this week that it turned to the Middle East for a $3.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund—the kingdom’s “main investment fund”—as part of...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: - Don’t Expect New Crowdfunding Rules to Create a Startup Boom - Equity crowdfunding went live this week under the SEC’s recent rulemaking, but many...more
You may have heard about new overtime rules from the Department of Labor. It’s not all about bathroom laws. Michael Kelsheimer, author of the Employer Handbook, broke down the new rules in Federal Changes to Overtime...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: - How The Fiduciary Rule Will Harm Fintech And Startups - The Department of Labor may not be the first federal agency on an early-stage startup founder’s...more
Many companies in the technology industry pay workers as “independent contractors” or “1099 workers.” In theory, classifying individuals as independent contractors rather than employees can bestow significant economic...more
This year, according to a recent Syracuse University study, federal courts are on track to handle a record number of wage-and-hour lawsuits stemming from violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which establishes...more
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) administers and enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA is the federal law commonly known for minimum wage, overtime pay and related recordkeeping requirements. The...more
In a closely-watched decision involving a challenge to the business model used by ride-hailing company Uber Technologies, Inc., a California federal judge agreed to certify a class of California drivers who claim to have been...more
This month’s headline developments are two independent contractor misclassification class action lawsuits: one was filed in New York against a Silicon Valley giant, Google Inc., and the second was filed in California against...more
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As the summer arrives in full force, I am watching a lot of my start-up friends take advantage of the unpaid internship to help with some needed coding, design or marketing projects they haven’t gotten to. ...more