The CLEI has launched its “Run the Traps” series of short (approximately 8 to 12 minute) videos designed to introduce entrepreneurs to several types of law and associated issues that commonly apply to startup ventures in the United States.
Each video involves a host interviewing an attorney with substantial on point experience, posing questions a budding entrepreneur might well ask. The discussion in each provides information about laws and legal considerations implicated by those questions, and why addressing them is important as part of business planning, and spotlights some traps for the unwary and common mistakes. These Run the Traps videos also urge entrepreneurs to engage legal counsel to advise them, and are accompanied by lists of some additional information on their topic areas and ways to access legal services and anticipate questions lawyers will ask to help inform the advice they provide.
The four initial episodes in the CLEI’s Run the Traps video series are on:
- Choice of Entity for Business Ventures
- Engaging Workers: Employees vs. Independent Contractors
- Identifying and Protecting Intellectual Property
- Sales Tax Considerations for Internet Businesses
The CLEI would appreciate your feedback on these videos. After you watch one or more of them please complete the short survey at CLEI Videos Feedback Survey, which we believe should take about 10 minutes. Responses to the survey will be described in grant program reports on an anonymous basis.
