Our modern world is trying at times, but I find reason for hope everyday. As I move away from the startup scene into one focused more on charity, I am constantly amazed by the amount of good energy put out by my neighbors everyday. Whether it is working together to help better raise our children,…
I threw the word ‘Church’ around a bit in my last post. I feel the definition I am using may be non-standard to say the least. In the traditional sense, a church is building with a congregation and faith. Church the word is loaded with connotations positive and negative. Church for many people is a…
Over the last two years, society has been obsessed with the body politic. Elections, voting, fairness, equality. The body politic in the modern, democratic era is built around two main principles: that one person has one vote, and that people can find compromise to solve their problems. But this system has broken down. People do not vote, and…
Changes are coming. For the last year and a half, I have been working as a full stack web developer and building my skills. But something has been missing, the helping people something, the something that I had in spades when I was a lawyer. I have ideas on what that is, but nothing concrete…
Welcome to the new year. I hope you are excited about starting and/or growing your business. I have several new projects on the front burners, and I am quite eager to get going. Until I am ready to post those, check out the legal tips below to help you get going in this new year.
I have recently been relearning a lot of programming. My focus has mostly been on Javascript because it gets results for what I am building (I am working with AngularJS, NodeJS and LoopBackIO if you are interested). In revisiting programming best practices, I have come to realize that there are many, many parallels between writing…
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It seems a lifetime ago, but once, many years ago, a friend and I owned a comic & games store in Lake Jackson, Texas, called Angry Gorilla Comics & Games, Inc. We opened four months after I graduated college and stayed that way for another 18, until the stress of running a business that was just…
We’ve launched our new company, Strataba–Legal and Business Classes for Entrepreneurs. Check out our first class on Meetup.com. Or visit our website. Stay tuned for updates!
Ready to get out now that the mind-scorching heat of August is past us? Here are 4 free events I am really looking forward to this month: Collaborative Consumption & Marketplaces with LEAN Startup Circle What: Learn about the sharing economy and disruptive startups with the CEO of Ayoopa, Wayne Lopez. When: 6:30 PM, Thursday, September 4,…
Every time I post to my Facebook page for my law firm, Facebook (‘FB’) suggests that I pay for a campaign to drive likes to that page. But, having used FB for quite a while, and having kept up with changes to how FB populates user’s newsfeeds, I know that spending money to drive likes to my page…
Though it has been somewhat on the downlow, my friend Nick and I have been working on a new company, Strataba. Two weeks ago we made a video to explain what Strataba does. Check it out at Strataba.com. If you like what we are doing, fill out our comment form at the bottom so we…
Last year, Houston saw the launch of two startup incubator/accelerators: Owlspark at Rice and Red Labs at UH (full disclosure: I am a coug-owl). This year, those two incubators hosted the First Annual Houston Bayou Startup Showcase. It was not a competition, but a collaboration, designed to showoff the best startups our city has to offer.…
Every week, almost everyday, a budding entrepreneur asks me for help with her startup. The law of business is a large and complex space, and there is no way I can explain to a new business person everything she needs to know. Worse, when it comes to helping the startup with its legal issues, there is no effective…
