Each year, over 3,000 tech startups are financed in the US and Canada.
Budding entrepreneurs know that starting a tech company can be super challenging and exciting at the same time! Unlike corporations, startups provide the opportunity to explore different roles and wear many hats. Employees of startups likely perform duties well above and beyond their traditional skill set.
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Forward-thinking law firms are revolutionizing the way corporate minute books are managed, moving the process online to achieve greater efficiency and collaboration with their clients.
Client minute books have traditionally been a cumbersome task for law firms. Internal and external document requests would first need to be fielded. The legal admin team would then need to physically locate the document, make copies and resend via mail or email. The process was both time consuming and unsecure.
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The concept of money and finance is one that stretches back thousands of years. Commodity markets in their earliest form are believed to have originated somewhere between 4,500 BC and 4,000 BC!
Today, business and finance is the lifeblood of any society, and something we often take for granted as a way of life. But the financial market doesn’t always work smoothly.
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In Part 1 of this blog series on law firm security, I discussed how security has traditionally been an uphill battle with lawyers. But with mounting client pressure and an increasing number of security breaches, the mindset and attitude around law firm security is starting to shift.
Back in March of 2012 I had some very harsh things to say about law firm security in my post, When Good Enough - Isn't. I tried a humorous tact, providing "helpful" suggestions for Responses to a Breach of Client Data. At the beginning of the year I suggested a resolution for CIOs in Security: Let's Start with Education in 2013.
I will be the first to admit that getting senior law firm management to develop a security conscious mindset can be tough. Many leaders have the attitude that "it won't happen to me." It is often seen as costly insurance or an unnecessary expense. Worse still, it’s seen as useless, as an impedance to work, an unwanted inconvenience. But times are changing. Security and awareness must change too.
Online security threats are something we’ve all heard about, but do you know how big the threat really is?
The stereotypical view of somebody sitting alone in their basement hacking into your Facebook account is outdated. Hackers are becoming far more sophisticated.
Professional groups of highly skilled hackers, sometimes government backed and politically motivated, are targeting an ever increasing number of corporations. The attacks are not random, but rather targeted and persistent. A 2012 whitepaper by security software provider, Symantec, suggests that “Victims are attacked, not for petty crime or theft, but for the wholesale gathering of intelligence and intellectual property.”
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Most of us, at one time or another, have made a mistake when it comes to sending an email.
Perhaps you've made an error but pressed send too quickly, attached the wrong document, or emailed the wrong person entirely! The situation is usually more of an embarrassment than anything else, but the repercussions are more serious when confidential information is involved.
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TransCanada’s four-and- a-half year wait for a presidential permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline should soon be over.
By this autumn, President Obama is expected to make a decision on whether construction of the 1,900 km pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska - where it will connect to an existing pipeline that leads to refineries on the Gulf Coast - will be allowed to proceed.
When a business owner decides to sell their business, the need to objectively assess the current condition of the company can often be overlooked. In failing to do this, the seller weakens their power of negotiation with potential acquirers. The best way to address this is through reverse or vendor due diligence.
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