Your friendly Indianapolis attorney and Partner In Success at Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP here with another post, this time for both business entities and lawyers who find themselves in the trenches of business law, SaaS law, internet laws, and privacy litigation and probate litigation. Partner and fellow blogger Dave Castor sort of beat me to the bunch by pointing out a great blog post by Michael P. Alerding (ACH’s Mike Alerding’s father) at Alerding & Co., LLC, which Dave re-posted below. I...
Read More »The post below is fantastic. It is by Michael P. Alerding,
CPA (my business partner's father) at his accounting firm's new
blog site. He gave me permission to re-post it here (thank
you Alerding & Co.). Check it out:
Alerding & Co. Blog
What Happened to Business
Ethics?
By: Michael P. Alerding, CPA
Every time I get a contract to sign, I find it almost impossible to spend the time reading the fine print and trying to understand all of the future implications of the agreement. As my son,...
Read More »By: Michael P. Alerding, CPA
Every time I get a contract to sign, I find it almost impossible to spend the time reading the fine print and trying to understand all of the future implications of the agreement. As my son,...
One of my favorite movie scenes is from The Jerk.
Navin Johnson is working at a carnival guessing peoples
weight. He is talking to Frosty, his boss:
Navin R. Johnson:
[bleakly] I've already given away eight pencils, two hoola dolls,
and an ashtray, and I've only taken in fifteen dollars.
Frosty: Navin, you have taken in fifteen dollars and given away fifty cents worth of crap, which gives us a net profit of fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
Navin R. Johnson: Ah... It's a profit deal. Takes the...
Read More »Frosty: Navin, you have taken in fifteen dollars and given away fifty cents worth of crap, which gives us a net profit of fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
Navin R. Johnson: Ah... It's a profit deal. Takes the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2010
Contact: Lainey Scheetz
317.403.9012
lscheetz@alerdingcastor.com
ALERDING CASTOR HEWITT, LLP CLIENT NAMED 10TH FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANY IN INDIANA FOR THIRD TIME
Indianapolis, IN – Iasta, the leading provider of eSourcing software and solutions, was titled as the 10th Fastest Growing Private Company in Indiana for 2010 by the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ). A third time honoree, Iasta boosted its three-year growth rate at 134 percent.
The report...
Read More »There is a great article in the July-August edition of the Harvard
Business Review entitled The Early Bird Really Does Get the
Worm. The article summarizes a study which found a
correlation between "morning people" and career
success. This is based on a number of traits which are
commonly found in morning people.
Traits
Agreeable
Optimistic
Stable
Proactive
Conscientious
Satisfied with Life
Being a morning person, of course I loved this! Most days I am the first in the office. I love getting...Read More »
Traits
Agreeable
Optimistic
Stable
Proactive
Conscientious
Satisfied with Life
Being a morning person, of course I loved this! Most days I am the first in the office. I love getting...Read More »
Your friendly neighborhood technology counsel here: A couple
of recent state court decisions are going to start personal injury
attorneys frothing at the mouth, and might render some sleepless
nights for defense attorneys. Both Ohio and Florida recently
issued opinions in which they applied their state's respective
long-arm statutes to garner personal jurisdiction over an
out-of-state resident for tortious conduct that transpired over the
Internet.
First, you need to know what a long-arm...Read More »
First, you need to know what a long-arm...Read More »
China has enacted the "Interim Administrative Measures on
Internet-based Transactions of Goods and Related Services" that
will take effect on July 1, 2010. This regulations should
have a significant impact on e-commerce in China. One can
only assume that it will also impact Software Service Level
Agreements, SaaS law, and cloud computing law. The
regulations appear to be focused on Business - to-Consumer issues
and consumer-to-consumer activities, but the actual language of the
regulation is...Read More »
I recently read a summary of a lecture on applying the seven deadly
sins to software development. The sins are:
The idea is not to sell products leading to the sins themselves...
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Lust
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Obsessive or excessive thoughts
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Gluttony
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Over-indulgence, over-consumption
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Greed
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A sin of excess like lust and gluttony, but in reference to
wealth
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Sloth
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Laziness, indifference, apathy
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Wrath
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Uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger
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Envy
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Resenting another because they possess something you do
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Excessive love of self
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The idea is not to sell products leading to the sins themselves...
I wrote a post a few weeks back on B2B, B2C and C2C technology companies in
Indianapolis. Here are a couple of paragraph excerpts:
Indianapolis has done some amazing
things in SaaS technology markets. As many readers of this
blog know, much of my business law practice focuses on SaaS law,
Internet law and funding law. Most of this is in
business-to-business (B2B) SaaS markets. This week I was
thinking about how this is not just true of my practice, but it
also is true for Indianapolis as a...
Read More »You might wonder why an Indiana law firm with a practice in several areas of technology (Indiana Internet Litigation, SaaS Legal Consulting to name just two) finds itself supporting a golf outing that raises money for adoption? "As a firm that prides itself on supporting the local community, we don't always align our charitable giving strictly to serve our immediate demographic. There are many organizations deserving of our support and Adoptions of Indiana is certainly one of them," comments...
Read More »Indianapolis has done some amazing things in
SaaS technology markets. As many readers of this blog know,
much of my business law practice focuses on SaaS law, Internet law
and funding law. Most of this is in business-to-business
(B2B) SaaS markets. This week I was thinking about how this
is not just true of my practice, but it also is true for
Indianapolis as a whole. Most software companies in
Indianapolis are in B2B markets.
The other two markets are business-to-consumer (B2C)...
Your friendly neighborhood
technology legal counsel here to discuss with you the hidden
dangers lurking in your unassuming (and unread) terms of service
agreements. Janet Croswell, one of our fabulous tech lawyers,
posted back on February 10, 2010 about the pitfalls that businesses
face related to the clickwrap agreement (here's a link for those
playing along at home blog.alerdingcastor.com/blog/alerding-castor).
Now for those of you scratching your head and wondering what a
"clickwrap...Read More »
There is a good
article on the Mercury News Blog today on How dot-com
start-ups have changed 10 years later. The article
addresses the maturity of both technology companies and
US private equity investors over the last decade. It is
an interesting read.There has been a lot of activity in angel investor groups and venture capital investments in Indiana technology companies over the last few months. 2010 has definitely started with a bang at Alerding Castor Hewitt where we have helped five...Read More »
Congratulations
are in order to Brian Hewitt, the newest parter of Alerding Castor
Hewitt, LLP, who was recognized this week as one of Indiana's 2010
top 50 Super Lawyers.Brian concentrates his practice on estate, trust, and guardianship planning, administration, and litigation; and mediation and business law.
He is a Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist, a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a member of the Probate Litigation Committee of the... Read More »
I have taken a few
weeks off of blogging. Honestly, I felt like I needed the
break, but I am excited about getting back on the saddle and
writing again.Since it has been a few weeks, let me give a brief update on what we have been up to. Alerding Castor Hewitt has had an exciting beginning to 2010. On January 1, Bill Boncosky joined us. Bill is a business attorney / technology and SaaS law attorney working with privately held companies, primarily in technology industries. Bill has spent the...Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2010
Contact: Lainey Scheetz
317.403.9012
lscheetz@alerdingcastor.com
ALERDING CASTOR HEWITT LLP PARTNER NAMED TO FORTY UNDER 40
Indianapolis,
IN – Alerding Castor Hewitt LLP is pleased to announce that Michael
Alerding, a partner at the firm, has been named to the 2010
Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 list. The list
recognizes local business and professional leaders who have
achieved success and excelled in their field before the age of 40.
Those...
Closing
in on the end of 2009 I have to say that I am quite pleased
with the commitment Indiana showed this year to be a State that
supports and promotes innovation, entreprenuership and business
growth.This week I had breakfast with Larry O'Connor, Executive Director of Butler University's Business Accelerator. Larry is a former CEO of Bank One Indiana. Following his "retirement", Larry became CEO of The IndianapolisMuseumm of Art, and recently took the position to lead theAcceleratorr...Read More »
The other day I wrote a post on my reasons not to use the term
"affiliates" in licensing agreement negotiations. See post here. My
general point is that the term has no common meaning in the law and
may create ambiguity in the contact.
I addressed several different definitions of the term in laws, but the term is not only defined differently in law, it is also used differently in business.
For accounting companies, for instance, the Interstate Commerce Commission defines the term as companies...Read More »
I addressed several different definitions of the term in laws, but the term is not only defined differently in law, it is also used differently in business.
For accounting companies, for instance, the Interstate Commerce Commission defines the term as companies...Read More »
Something crossed my screen today that piqued my interest.
That concept is competitive keyword advertising litigation.
The case that sparked my curiosity is Fair Isaac Corp v. Experian
Information Solutions, Inc., 2009 WL 4263699 (D.
Minn. 11/25/2009) (www.jurisnote.com/Cases/fair6411.pdf). For a
good analysis of the ruling see Eric Goldman's blog (blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/12/competitive_key.htm).
Interestingly, the case law to date on this issue has found for the
defendants in...Read More »
New technology businesses usually face two hurdles to get their
product to market. The first is proof of concept. The
second is proof of scale.
Both are intended to solve the “Ability” stage of the business plan process and move the business into the "Meeting" stage:
Proof of concept is simply the proof that the business can develop a working prototype that...Read More »
Both are intended to solve the “Ability” stage of the business plan process and move the business into the "Meeting" stage:
Recognition of Market ->
Recognition of Market Opportunity -> Ability to Meet Market
Opportunity -> Meeting Market Opportunity at Profit
Proof of concept is simply the proof that the business can develop a working prototype that...Read More »
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