Recap

Legal GPS is on a mission to educate early stage business owners about the many legal pitfalls related to business enterprising. To ensure we are developing our ideas in actionable, sustainable and protected fashions, it is important we stay grounded and aware of the regulatory environments that we are subject to. In this section, we have been introduced to the various business entities we can register as, how to mitigate legal risks and how we can protect our intellectual property. All these factors are vital to the implementation of your venture.

Resources

To continue exploring the world of legal rules and restrictions you can read through the Legal GPS handbook on the next page and review an acutal patent in the page that follows that. If this is an iarea of additional interest, you have access to the entire Legal GPS eco-system and I am available to help you navigate their resource rich site.

Looking Ahead

Now back to our regularly scheduled program! In the upcoming unit we begin to assess the resources we have access to so we can begin to strategize about filling the resource gaps we have and think about how we can best leverage the resources we do have. In the coming unit, we define the resource you have most control over - your network - and introduce the concept of "risk." As individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences and needs, risk shows up differently for all of us, so we will take time in the discussions within this unit to begin to increase our awareness of our risk tolerance as it pertains to being a successful entrepreneur.

Throughout this course, at strategically placed points in the semester, we will take a side-step into the Legal GPS curriculum for entrepreneurs. Legal GPS is on a mission to educate early stage business owners about the many legal pitfalls related to business enterprising. Please follow the instructions, review the materials and complete the assignments. They have been tailored to support you in furthering the concept you are working on in this course.

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