Most people start a business in the wrong order.
They build the thing first and deal with the legal side when something goes wrong. By then the contractor owns the code, the co-founder who quit still has half the company, and the name is already on a competitor's trademark registration.
None of that is complicated to prevent. It's just invisible until it isn't. This checklist walks you through Dream, Design, Inspire, Create and Launch, and marks in pink the six or seven places where doing it yourself will cost you more than doing it right.
Dream. Design. Inspire. Create. And Launch.
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ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
I'm Bahar Ansari, a transactional attorney in California specializing in business law and business immigration, and the founder of Second.Law, Inc. I've spent nearly fourteen years watching founders make the same handful of expensive mistakes in the same order, so I wrote them down.
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