Business Toolkit: How to Protect Your Work with Copyrights

How to protect the core ideas used to create your game software (intellectual property) is a hot topic these days. As you can see in the comments, whether or not to patent your ideas is a very controversial question. Many will...
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Startup Business Toolkit: How to Make the Best Partnership Papers

No matter what type of business you’re creating, during the early stages of development, partnership papers are a must. Putting your agreements in writing allows you not only the peace of mind that comes with a formalized agreement, but it...
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Different Types of Companies: What You Need to Know Before You Start Your Business: Blog 2: Corporations are Tanks

In the business world, corporations are your tanks; if put together correctly, they soak up all your “damages” from litigious bad-guys. In fact, they’re better than tanks, because they always do exactly what you (its Board of Directors) wants it...
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To Patent or Not to Patent: That is the Designer’s Q:

Small gaming companies have a major decision to make in the early days of their game development: whether or not to seek a patent for their game.  While an important business question, this can be a moral question as well:...
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Practical Advice on Types of Companies: What You Need to Know Before You Start Your Business: Blog 1: Partnerships

Partnerships as legal entities go back all the way to the dawn of the American legal system.  Early case-law explained that business partners have what’s called, in Legalese, “fiduciary duties” towards one another, which is to say, they can’t take...
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