Employment, Litigation
Denis Shmidt
Who Can Courts Hold Responsible For ...

Under current California law, while Uber cannot escape the judicial consequences for its employees' discriminatory actions, the managers and HR staff who actually discriminated or retaliated against Uber’s employees will likely walk away unscathed.

Who Can Courts Hold Responsible For Discrimination Claims?*

Employment

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Solving Pied Piper’s Legal Woes: Season 4, Episode 1

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Solving Pied Piper’s Legal Woes: Season 4, Episode 1

Season 4 of HBO'S Silicon Valley has become a weekly case-study in why entrepreneurs and startups’ success is so often inexorably linked to their ever-escalating legal woes.  Here is the legal advice I would give the Pied Piper team, episode by episode.

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5 Valuable Lessons All Entrepreneurs Can Learn From "The Founder"*

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5 Valuable Lessons All Entrepreneurs Can Learn From "The Founder"*

The Founder, the story of the man who took McDonald's from a single obscure location and made it into a household name, has the same themes as a modern day tech startup; high hopes, best intentions, friction between the “engineers” and the business, betrayal, power struggle, and ultimately the re-writing of history. 

Just as with countless startups where one founder is pushed out and erased from history, the McDonald brothers had multiple opportunities to stop their own demise.  Here are 5 things entrepreneurs can do to avoid stumbling in their footsteps:

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5 Steps To Keep A Founder Dispute From Tanking Your Startup*

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5 Steps To Keep A Founder Dispute From Tanking Your Startup*

Co-founding a startup is like getting married. You go from spending some time together, to spending all your time together, in a small space, and sharing your finances. In such a high-pressure environment, disputes are guaranteed.  Here are five steps to keep small disagreements from becoming full-fledged brawls.