Technology Needs for Emerging Businesses

Generally, emerging businesses are by nature forward-looking businesses.  At the same time, emerging businesses often don’t have the time or money necessary to carefully address the technology-related legal concerns that will significantly affect their future.  Small things can become very important as your business grows.  Efficient, context-driven legal counsel can help reduce the gap between best outcomes and good-enough-for-now outcomes in technology-related legal matters.

Limited resources can make it difficult for emerging business to address technology-related legal matters as carefully as they would if they had greater resources available to them.
Lawyer for Protecting Technology Assets

Protecting Technology Assets

Early stage developments often form the foundation of emerging businesses.  Protecting those assets can be critical to the businesses’ success, including the ability obtain funding when needed.

I worked with businesses in all stages of development.  I help emerging businesses identify their future needs while addressing current technology-related legal matters.  I work with other counsel engaged by emerging businesses, including patent counsel, to assist in creating strategies to identify and protect intellectual property assets.

Technology Transactions

In negotiating a contract, every business has to make choices about which issues are the most important to address.  Emerging businesses may feel the need to focus on financial concerns.   But the risks and benefits of a contract can’t be measured by payment terms alone.  The other rights and obligations in the contract have to be carefully considered as well.

For example, technology vendors must consider how contracts with their technology providers fit together with their product plans – as those plans may change.   Restrictions in those contracts might be incompatible with new or changed products.

Similarly, technology customers must consider how their future business operations might be constrained by current agreements with their technology vendors.  For example, will all of your future business operations be able to use the CRM, ERP and other systems you obtain today?

I help my clients determine whether the contracts they are considering now might affect their future business needs.  It’s unusual for a business to get everything the business wants in a contract negotiation, so priorities have to be established.  I help businesses identify issues to consider in establishing those priorities.

Investments and Exit Strategies

Investors in emerging businesses and purchasers of emerging businesses will consider how the business protects its technology assets and the terms and conditions of the transactions it’s entered into.

I have extensive experience conducting due diligence for business investors and purchasers.  I help emerging businesses anticipate issues that could be important to investors and purchasers in their business.

Lawyer for Technology Investments and Exit Strategies