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…
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…
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…
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…
Good news, I guess. Next year, NASA is going to begin testing its new human rated space capsule, the Orion, by launching it atop a Delta IV Heavy. I cannot fully express how happy it makes me to see NASA, which was founded on the principle of pushing the limits of human exploration in space,…
For all the hoopla over lifting restrictions on soliciting fundraising for startups RE: The Jobs Act, the biggest, relatively uncovered story for Entrepreneurship is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the opening of the healthcare exchanges on October 1. This law and the idea of affordable, market based insurance truly opens the door for everyone…
As great as Houston may be, for a city trying to cultivate a vibrant startup culture, it still lacks three key ingredients for innovation success. The capstone panel at the MBA Council of Houston’s Impact Investing Seminar discussed in-depth what we as Houstonians must build over the next 20 years if we want to become…
People often ask me if services such as Legal Zoom, Rocket Lawyer and NOLO are a good alternative to hiring a lawyer. If you are starting or running a business, pre-made legal documents can seem like the perfect way to achieve legal protection while also saving money. On the one hand, a penny saved is…