How to Register a Trademark
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How to Register a Trademark

Article Summary For entrepreneurs and other business owners, having a registered trademark helps you to protect the intellectual property you’ve worked hard to create. The process of registering a trademark usually takes a year or longer, and typically cost about from $1,000 to $5,000 using a trademark attorney. The ultimate cost depends upon how difficult…

How My Online Sporting Goods Business Survived a $400 Million Ponzi Scheme
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How My Online Sporting Goods Business Survived a $400 Million Ponzi Scheme

In the spring of 2008, the online sporting goods business my wife I had built and operated over the four previous years was growing and things were looking up for us. We were still inexperienced enough to not be considered experts at running a business by most professional standards. Almost everything we’d learned to make…