Legal Articles

A quick, non-judgemental phone call might be your quickest way to get paid. Some people have great difficulty asking for payment, even though they know the money is owed. If this is you, create a process that you can follow, or delegate to someone else to follow, to avoid the emotional hesitation attached to asking for money.

The key is to identify the legal issues that put your startup business at risk of irreparable destruction or overwhelming cost, and deal with those issues first. What impacts your startup business most will depend on where you are, and where you want to get to in the...

I’ve been getting lots of questions lately about what you can and can’t do with copyright images you find online. Loads of people seem to think that just because an image shows up on a Google search it must be available for use for free. It is a common...

If your business is not in Europe, should you be worried about GDPR? GDPR has the potential to impact any business that might be doing business with a European resident, whether the business is online or not. This article covers some of the most frequently asked...

The UK is set to exit the European Union on 29 March 2019 and there still isn’t an agreed exit deal on the table. So what? It’s not the regulator that you have to worry about so much as all the service providers in the EU and UK that you work with who might restrict...

What is crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is about enabling other people to support your cause or idea by donating money to you.  Some fundraisers offer perks or rewards in exchange for donations, some don’t. Organisations that have deductible gift recipient (DGR) status can...