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When NDA is A Four Letter Word
It seems like a no-brainer, right? Why wouldn’t you commit investors to signing a non-disclosure agreement before you tell the your million dollar idea? Unfortunately, this is a situation where investors and startups are coming from vastly different perspectives and an NDA can transform from something that secures you to something that sabotages you....
An Intro To Shareholders Agreements and Aussie Resources
They say nowadays that a third of marriages fail, and for businesses, that rate is even higher. So consider a shareholder agreement a pre-nup for your business’s marriage to investors and shareholders.....
To .au or Not to .au, That is The Question
Australia is a proud nation, happy to wave the southern cross over the harbour bridge, stretch the flag over our suntanned bodies as bikinis and host a whole holiday in honor of the fair nation. But when it comes to your startup’s domain name, does it hinder or help you to have the mark of Australia attached at the end?.....
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Rail on track for 2008 arrival
Rail connects Northwest Austin to downtown
Only about 2,000 votes kept a 52-mile light rail track out of Austin back in 2000. With half of the voters feeling underserved by the project, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority went back to the drawing board...
Bill would keep Austin waste out of Cedar Park quarry
Residents of the Carriage Hills Neighborhood of Cedar Park thought their troubles were ending. In December the lease would expire for the excavation company which had been blasting twice daily in the quarry a half mile from their homes along FM 1431 and Lakeline Boulevard...
Controversial corridor faces new hurdle
Texas legislature considers transportation funding options as TxDOT privatizes projects
Trans-Texas Corridor is a small term that encompasses a large number of projects. It is not merely a single road but an amendment to the Texas Transportation Code that has introduced an unprecedented system for highway funding. Now two bills, one currently in the House and one in the Senate, are questioning whether the TTC's bold ideas are helping or hurting Texas drivers...
New zoning increases density
North Austin neighborhood target of growth
In the next 20 years, the Austin population will nearly double in size, and those 1.5 million people are all going to need a place to live. Since the Austin city limits aren't getting any bigger, city officals recognize their only choices are to grow taller and denser...
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Spring is on the air
Budding fashion trends for the coming season
Not only is she the face of spring fashion, but one of the faces of newly created Austin television station ME Television. On-air personality Anne Hudson has been working with the station...
Spring Accessories
It's the end of winter, and your sequined hobo bag is so worn out that it looks like it could actually belong to a hobo. The only accessories you've been able to wear are knitted, and what's the point...
SXSW Alternatives
The wristbands are long gone, and you're going to have to reach deep into your pockets if you want a badge, but this doesn't mean you're shut out of the South by South West Music Festival. Trying to capitalize on their...
Best foot forward
Women covet them and men use them as a status symbol, shoes are universally loved by both genders. Ever since Air Jordans gave birth to a frenzy in the market, high end tennis shoes have become a hot item...
Artful tees
A screen printed shirt is not merely clothing, it's a piece of wearable art. In the past five years a whole culture has built around screen printed shirts, giving way to companies like American Apparel that produce...
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'Don't Mess with Texas' up for ad award
'Just do it', 'What happens here stays here' also compete for top honors
Willie Nelson has said it. Ashley Judd has said it. Now the whole country might be saying it, as the "Don't Mess with Texas" campaign runs for Advertising Week's Favorite Slogan Award. Created by...
Official: illegal alien legislation won't pass
Department of Commerce official argues comprehensive immigration reform
Legislation proposing tall fences and making illegal immigrants felons led thousands to protest in May. But the deputy secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department assured Austin business leaders...
Group sues county for denying counsel
The Texas Fair Defense Project has filed a class action lawsuit against Williamson County on behalf of three defendants facing misdemeanor charges who were denied court-appointed counsel...
Taking a different approach
Film series on digital innovations focuses on rotoscoping, alternative techniques
As part of its Alternative Technologies Screening Series, the Harry Ransom Center will show the film "D/x" by artist Luke Savisky on July 13. Originally commissioned by the city for the...
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For the political dish, check out the blogs
Online: Grapevines sink Texas roots
By day she is a mild-mannered reporter who covering the Texas Legislature. But by night she is the "mistress of the media kingdom's writhing political snakes." Once she's off the clock as a journalist...
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Episode II
Stormtroopers prepare for the toy release's attack of the fans
It's taken Lance Moran 25 years to live out a childhood fantasy and tonight, for the first time, he's become part of the film that for so long has been a part of him. "I found out about the 501st legion of stormtroopers...
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