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Guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor shares the last in a series of four articles on BusinessWeek's The New Entrepreneur on the topic of business contracts on the topic of indemnification. According to the post, Ezor is "the director of the Touro Law Center Institute for Business, Law and Technology, and an assistant professor of law and technology. He also serves as special counsel to The Lustigman Fi Read More

This video from the U.S. Department of Commerce on information technology security may sound a bit shrill and paranoid from time to time but in view of recent cyber attacks against Twitter and the presence of potentially sensitive information online as part of many small business operations today it can be very sobering as well. Could access to a single code or piece of technology in your small b Read More

And the third in our ongoing series of links from BusinessWeek's The New Entrepreneur blog as guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor looks at demystifying yet another business contract area, non-disclosure provisions. If you've ever signed a contract containing them or if you are contemplating creating one for business needs of your own, this could be an excellent preparation for the process. Of course, Read More

Guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor continues with an ongoing series aimed at demystifying legalese for the entrepreneur and small business owner. Often these are the people most in need of answers and yet most unable to afford legal help during the startup process. The series is part of BusinessWeek' The New Entrepreneur blog and I strongly suggest you share it with any friend you happen to know who Read More

This is part 1 of a series by Jonathan I. Ezor, a guest blogger at The New Entrepreneur at Business Week designed to unravel the secret language of attorneys for perspective entrepreneurs and business owners. The premise, of course, is that whether or not a small business owner has hired an attorney to deal with these things he/she ought to at least understand this stuff. While there is no shorta Read More

A panel of attorney's discuss a wide range of small business legal issues from power of attorney to contracts at a meeting of the board of the National Association of Women Business Owners. This video from Small Business Television claims to include 25 small business legal tips within 25 minutes and honestly I didn't count that carefully. Also there is some exchange with the audience including qu Read More

In an earlier link I mentioned Ashton Kutcher and his business model for social media as a blueprint for small business on the Web. In a followup, Fast Company posted the following story about Kutcher's Katalyst Media and how it is now adding live video promoted by Twitter and Facebook to a growing army of followers. The idea from the perspective of small business could be a very easy way of usin Read More

Ashton Kutcher, Mr. big time TV star and still one of the most famous Twitter users on Earth because of the huge number of followers he's amassed not to mention friends on Facebook, is building a social media business of a very different kind. While waiting around to see 'Avatar' over the New Years holiday, I happened to pick up a copy of Fast Company with the following article. What's amazing fo Read More

This small business guide to online tools from Gerry Blackwell at Small Business Computing covers a variety of collaboration tools small entrepreneurs can take advantage of almost immediately. they run the gamut of high tech functions from video and audio to e-mail collaboration and all points in between. So make a New Year's resolution to test drive some of these new tools if you haven't done so Read More

Here are a list of best posts, including some pretty hilarious and attention grabbing content I think we all wish we had on our small business Website as Brian Clark of Copyblogger serves up an oeuvre of the year's best from the sometimes irreverent but usually insightful blog dedicated to nothing but marketing copy. It's great reading for the New Year and a good opportunity to take stock and det Read More