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As any entrepreneur is well aware, the early stages of a new business venture are an incredibly busy time. Entrepreneurs must focus on building the core team, structuring the company, attracting investors, developing the product/service, and developing key partnerships, sales channels and marketing plans. These tasks are typically all-consuming for the founders, taxing both their financial and time resources. During this time, it may be a challenge to simultaneously focus on

From Sarvesh Mahajan, Wiggin & Dana The National Law Review As an emerging company goes to market with new offerings, it will need to determine the terms and risk profile on which it will sell its services and products. Many companies develop terms of use (generally for products or services provided or sold through the web) or contract templates. A company will want to have terms that are consistent with market norms for the relevant industry and are “sellable” to customers,

Image from today.uconn.edu The bill, SB 840, allocates more than 1.5 billion dollars to the University of Connecticut over the next ten years with the objective of improving and growing the University’s programs in bioscience, engineering, technology, digital media, and other in-demand “fields that we are working so hard to expand here in Connecticut,” according to the Governor. This will be achieved by hiring new faculty, constructing additional facilities, and renovating an

A proposal to increase revenues offers a digital downloads tax, bringing the total on these products to 6.35 percent, commensurate with CT sales tax HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) – “A provision in a legislative package that has emerged would have the 1 percent tax on these products rise to 6.35 percent, the amount of Connecticut’s sales tax. Rep. Patricia Widlitz, D-Guilford, co-chair of the Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee, included the provision in the committee’s tax p

"IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation’s worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wilderness…" Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent #law #microsoft #russia