While attorneys are ethically bound to “zealously represent” the interests of their clients, many of us take that as license to be unpleasant, overly aggressive or even abrasive.   

Anyone who is at all active in the Triangle business community knows we are a breeding ground for social enterprise – companies that are formed to achieve a social purpose as well as make a living for the founders.  Social entrepreneurs have two cutting edge resources to available to them in North Carolina  — the [...]

Last week my personal Facebook status was: How do you turn cleaning the linen closet into a drinking game? It was a tongue-in-cheek question, posted to make myself accountable for starting and finishing a disagreeable task.  Yet it garnered more responses than many of my status updates. I ended up with a lot of momentum.

From Business Insider‘s  War Room, some great things to think about if you are considering leaving your corporate job to start a company.  What advice would you add?

Periodically, we get a call from a business owner who has been asked to take infringing images off the company web site.  The business owner is perplexed — he had no idea that photographs are protected by copyright or that images found on the web aren’t free for the taking. Often there are penalties or extremely [...]

I work with business owners and executives.  We are watching the unfolding story of Capt. Owen Honors, a decorated  Naval officer who was just relieved of his command of the prestigious  U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier.