If We Rewrote Our Laws to Help Entrepreneurs Understand Them, We’d Have More Startups and More Jobs

A major entrepreneurial center in the country, the Kauffman Foundation, has ranked cities and states for small business friendliness. The results are interesting, but not as interesting as the reasons why some areas scored better than others. As it turns out, there are three things that make an ideal place…

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR ONLINE CONTRACTS SO THE CHANGES STICK

Etrade’s online contract gave it the right to change terms of the contract and fees simply by posting the fees to its site. The contract essentially said that users were obligated to check now and then for amendments. A well respected federal judge in California struck that. Roling v….

THE 7 TYPES OF REGULATIONS

Nearly every service, product and material has laws or rules about it that you should (and often have to) follow. Governments regulate products and services that have the capacity to injure: restaurant refrigerators, mutual fund ads and lawyers all follow rules to keep people physically…