Month: May 2011

  Last December, online mega-company Google offered a business purchase price of $6 billion to Groupon, a locality-based deal-of-the-day online brokerage. Groupon, started in Chicago in 2008, had quickly deployed its business model in certain target markets and...

  The Pacific Northwest region, including the greater metropolitan areas of both Seattle and Portland, is no stranger to wildly fluctuating real estate prices. After the housing market peaked in 2006 and 2007, the years since have seen record lows. Seattle,...

If you're new to this series, you may want to begin by reading the previously-published Parts 1-4. The purpose of this series is to help entrepreneurs consider licensing strategy from a university's perspective, so that you can be more successful in planning the...

If you're new to this series, you may want to begin by reading Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The purpose of this series is to help entrepreneurs consider licensing strategy from a university's perspective, so that you can be more successful in planning the future of...

I was recently asked to speak about how grew from one under-capitalized client to over 400 well-funded clients in just eight years. The answer can't be reduced to a mere couple paragraphs. But what led to the merger of Du Val Business Law...

On March 13, 2011, I blogged about the pitfalls of hiring an unlicensed contractor in Washington, whether it be in Seattle, Spokane, Vancouver, or anywhere in between. This blog snippet is meant to further emphasize and remind property owners of the importance of...

If your business has ever been involved in a Seattle business dispute, you know that the legal docket in King County is crowded and glacial. If you have a dispute with a vendor or a contract dispute with a purchaser of your product, either you don't want to wait two...

is pleased to announce the formal opening of its Seattle practice. 's approach to business law and advice and business dispute resolution gained us quick traction in our home Portland market. After years of...

The mobile market is a booming business, with Apple's iPhone and Google's Android products both making strides in recent quarters, comfortably ahead of Research in Motion's BlackBerry, though both lag behind Nokia's Symbian technology.  By the third quarter of...

If you're new to this series, you may want to start at Part 1 or Part 2. The purpose of this series is to help entrepreneurs consider licensing strategy from a university's perspective, so that you can be more successful in planning the future of your business. I...