Is your business or non-profit organization compliant with federal, state, and global data privacy laws? Our 2026 edition of A Legal Guide t...

Venture capital is an industry fed by ambition and optimism. There is no better example than Open AI’s recent investment round which raised...

Malcolm Harris lured me into this book, a history of the area now encompassing Silicon Valley, with his very first sentences: “Palo Alto is ...

Forty years ago, I had just graduated from a law school that is part of a private research university in what is now known as Silicon Valle...

In 2022, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched a new initiative to recognize the innovative efforts of small and medi...

“I just think the data use by these companies is out of control” -- Alastair Mactaggart, California Real Estate Developer Who is Alasta...

In Europe, privacy is considered a fundamental human right. If you are collecting, using, or sharing personal information of a European re...

For those who have not been following the  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s  (SEC) oversight of the cryptocurrency industry/exchang...

To say last Thursday was a good day for  Apple Inc.  may be the understatement of the century. On August 2, 2018, Apple became the first U.S...

Apple and the FBI are at a standoff over a case involving the right to access data stored on a phone used by one of  the San Bernardino terr...

Non-disclosure agreements  have been a regular part of my practice because so many of my clients have technology at the core of their busine...

A little more than a year ago,  Dan Tenenbaum  posted about impressions garnered during  a whirlwind trip to Silicon Valley . It just so hap...

A few months ago, my mother forwarded me a link to an article in our very own Minneapolis Star Tribune entitled “ Tech New Frontier: Sil...

I’ve written before about the importance of a good elevator pitch in attracting interest in your business.   Looks like the folks at Har...

Now that the election is over and watching television is actually bearable again, you might want to check out Bravo’s “Start-Ups: Silicon ...

I just returned late last night from a whirlwind three-day trip to Silicon Valley.  Thanks to my friend, Frank Vargas  (a colleague an...

In our Twitterated universe (where people no longer write anything in chunks larger than 140 characters), the business plan has evolved t...

A recent article published in New Geography ranked the 51 largest metropolitan regions in the U.S. on their current concentration of and p...

  Last week I had the privilege of attending the Minnesota premiere (sponsored by among others, Gray Plant Mooty) of the documentary f...

The Book: Venture Capital and Angel Investing , edited by Andrew M. Lane and Nicole P. Mifflin (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011) . Wh...