Exiting is a process, not an event: Don't limit your exit strategy planning with what you don't know -- Setting your exit goals -- are you ready to leave?:The mental game of business exits -- What type of exiting owner are you? -- Selling the buisness -- private equity group recapitalizations -- Employee stock ownership plans as exit vehicles -- Sale versus recapitalization versus ESOP -- Management buyouts -- Gifting strategies for exiting business owners -- Deal structuring and taxes: It's not what you get but what you keep that counts -- Exit strategies and estate tax planning: protecting your wealth with some extate planning strategies -- Legal agreements that you need to know: you will sign agreements; know them before you sign them -- Forming an exit strategy advisory team: your agenda comes ahead of your advisors -- Pulling it all together.

Aimed at businesses that thrive on idea capital, this primer on intellectual property law spells out the easy and important steps to take to protect ideas such as brands, recipes, inventions, or artwork. In an increasingly competitive business world, companies live or die by the freshness and power of their ideas; protecting these works is not complicated and can cost nothing if entrepreneurs take action early, from realizing what intellectual capital their business might have to considering patents and licenses. The time and costs involved with each option are detailed, and the book explains all of the new choices and opportunities—as well as a few pitfalls—open to owners of protected ideas. For further study and action, there is a companion website accessible by a password provided in the book that offers sample legal agreements and links to other resources.

Protect your customers-and your business-with these essential "rules of the road" for maintaining Web site security Any company planning to do business on the Internet today must first become fully knowledgeable about the legal issues pertaining to consumer privacy and security, or risk severe financial penalties and loss of customer loyalty. In addition to making a Web site easy to navigate and transactions simple to manage, Web site developers must also make it secure. Failure to do so may result in legal action and irreparable damage to a company's reputation. E-Business Privacy and Trust is a clear, easy-to-follow handbook that outlines the legal aspects of maintaining privacy and security on the Web and shows today's businesses how to protect themselves by building basic guidelines into their e-business development strategies. The author, an expert on the subject of computer law, provides a complete overview of privacy law, security systems, and various ways today's businesses can protect themselves and their customers online, whether they're doing business locally or globally. In an environment fraught with potential pitfalls, E-Business Privacy and Trust will help every e-business owner, financial professional, and IT expert confidently reap the benefits of doing business on the Web while providing the level of security, confidentiality, and service your customers and your company demand.

"Andrew Griffiths has been through tough times and survived them. In Bulletproof Your Business Now he tells you how he survived the hard times by adopting some fundamental philosophies that changed his life and the way he runs his businesses. The advice offered in this book is simple and real, and is in the form of over 40 easy to follow and easy to implement tips for the business owner. Follow these tips and you will sleep much better each night."--Publisher description.

CYA means "Cover Your Ass" - in a business sense, of course. It may sound a bit brusque, obscene, or even unprofessional, but in reality CYA is essential if you want to avoid workplace problems. In Cover Your A$$: The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your Business, Poul Lemasters gives professional and proactive advice on safeguarding your business. From reviewing processes and looking for legal gaps, to optimizing procedures, ensuring legality, and everything in between, Poul will help you identify and protect yourself from the things that could get your business's ass kicked. Through eight in-depth chapters of CYA wisdom, readers will learn about hiring and firing, reviews and evaluations, project management, confrontation and work issues, training, policies and procedures, embracing change, and ethics. Does CYA sound professional now? Be a smart donkey. Don't allow your business - or yourself - to lose your ass over a problem. Cover Your Ass.