liability(3/0)
Legal dangers of self hosted services
Denise has a very thorough review of the liability pitfalls for running a Mastodon instance.
Consider sole proprietorship for a lean startup
Consider a sole proprietorship with liability insurance over a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) for a lean startup. When an entrepreneur first sits down to consider how to incorporate a business, the technical details may bore her to tears. That is, until she reads about liability and begins to imagine what horror stories may apply to her. Lean startup entrepreneurs want runway to iterate on their business model until a product/market fit is achieved.…
Love protects a business from employment violations
Love protects from a host of employment law violations. One of the fastest routes to a headache is to read the reams of employment laws. Discrimination based on gender? Check. Age? Check. Race, religion, disability? Triple-check. Even genetic information such as an employee’s mother’s heart condition could be grounds for a discrimination suit. Mazin, Rebecca, and Smith explain that “one of the most challenging tasks you will face in human resources management is complying with employment-related laws ({smith-hr}, pg.…