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<\/a><\/p>\nAsk the attorney: Securities laws <\/a><\/strong>– When friends or family want to invest in your start-up, do you need to comply with sercurities laws? Scott Edward Walker, founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, looks at what steps you need to take to protect yourself and your wannabe investors.<\/p>\n Snatching victory from adversity<\/a><\/strong> – Sometimes, bad news can actually turn out to be the best thing you can hear.\u00a0 Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank recounts the time he learned that a potential client had already invented the product his company was working on. What could have been disaster became a great opportunity.<\/p>\n Is it time to quit your day job?<\/a><\/strong> – There are myths and realities to launching your own business – and the myths tend to get the most press. Ali Davar, CEO of Worio, a Vancouver start-up, faced them when deciding whether to leave his comfortable job to build his company. He lists them here in an effort to help you decide if the time is right to take the jump.<\/p>\n The start-up chronicles: 5 questions for prospective entrepreneurs<\/a><\/strong> – Thinking of taking your idea and starting your own business? Author and Yale senior faculty fellow <\/em><\/em>Bruce Judson offers five things you should ask yourself before making the leap.<\/p>\n Tech changes and the entrepreneur: How to keep up <\/a><\/strong>– The saying goes that over the next 20 years, we’ll see as much change in technology as we’ve seen in the past 100. If so, says Draper Fisher Jurvetson managing director Steve Jurvetson, the only good ideas are the ones that seem crazy.<\/p>\n