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When starting your own business there are many legal pitfalls startups can fall into. Here's a few common reasons why you could end up in legal hot water. Starting your own business is the dream for a huge number of Brits, with 54% saying they’d like to do so at some point in their career. Being your own boss or slowly building up your own workforce, certainly has something appealing about ...
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Legal eagle Thomas Taylor writes for Startacus on a number of important UK business legal issues.  Following on nicely from his previous article on What makes a legal agreement binding, Thomas returns with a great follow up consideration - Should you expect your legal agreement to be bullet-proof? UK Startup Founders’ pens at the ready... Many people expect that because an agreement i...
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Thomas Taylor, Director of Net Lawman writes for Startacus on an assortment of legal issues that affect the UK small business and startup owner, whether it is starting that business or even growing or scaling it! From the laws regarding disclosure of information about your business, what makes a legal agreement binding, through to the legal considerations on who makes the decisions in your compan...
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Over the last few weeks Thomas Taylor a director at Legal Document provider Net Lawman has written some fab posts for Startacus. Last week Thomas highlighted why you should actually care about your website privacy notice and this week Thomas returns, to focus on the importance of having a good set of terms & conditions on a website. Over to Thomas to explain all.....
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Jo Haigh returns with a blog post on the importance of contracts, litigation and keeping it simple...I hate long and complex agreements. I have neither the patience nor the time to read all the very small print, and even with my glasses on and a magnifying glass I struggle to actually see. As a result I admit I have signed more than one contract that I simply have taken on good faith as being acc...
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Debbie Serota is a Partner & experienced commercial law solicitor at Darlingtons Solicitors and writes for Startacus on the importance of understanding your contracts.  Unfortunately, contracts are often misunderstood and therefore misinterpreted. This can then lead to mistakes being made which can cause complications and loss. In order to avoid such complications, it is important to ens...
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Making Intellectual Property sexy! Startacus chats with Maxine Horn, Founder of Creative Barcode, a digital IP App... Intellectual Property may not be an easy subject to understand initially but it's one that you really ought to spend some time learning about. After all, Intellectual Property (IP) can make or break what you can do with that big idea that you have or thought that you owned! With t...
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