Regulatory Compliance & Legal Risk Management

Regulatory compliance and risk management for technology companies — FTC enforcement, state regulators, sector-specific frameworks, and the operational systems that turn compliance into competitive advantage.

Law Firms

Can You Prove That Image Is Real? AI Verification Tools Lawyers Need to Understand

OpenAI just shipped a tool that checks whether an image was AI-generated. It is one of many — and for lawyers, the gap between what these provenance checkers actually prove and what a courtroom requires is where the real risk lives.

Game Studios

The EU Digital Services Act for Indie Game Studios: What Applies to You

The EU's Digital Services Act applies to US game studios selling to European players — and it's been in force since February 2024. Here's how to figure out which obligations apply to your studio and what to do about them.

Game Studios

Loot Box Laws by Jurisdiction: What Indie Game Studios Must Know

Loot box regulation varies dramatically by jurisdiction — from criminal penalties in Belgium to mandatory probability disclosure in Korea to FTC enforcement in the US. Here's how indie studios should structure their mechanics and compliance before launching globally.

Founders

Earnouts, Bad Faith, and a Chatbot: What Fortis Advisors v. Krafton Means for Founders Who Sell

A Delaware court ordered Krafton to reinstate the ousted Subnautica 2 CEO after its own chief executive used ChatGPT to engineer a 'takeover' and dodge a $250M earnout. Here is what founders who sell their companies should take from the ruling.

Startup Central

Legal Planning for First-Time Founders in Their 30s and 40s

If you're starting your first company in your 30s or 40s, you're often bringing real career leverage"10+ years of skills, network, and credibility"1and…

Technology, AI, & Digital Innovation

AI Training Data and Copyright: Fair Use, Licensing, and Governance for Model Developers

Generative AI is colliding with copyright law in real time. Frontier models are trained on enormous, largely scraped corpora, while authors, artists,…

Startup Central

Essential Legal Strategies for Austin Startups to Manage Business Disputes Effectively

For Austin startups and small businesses, a “business dispute” is any conflict that can derail revenue, operations, or relationships — think contract…

Startup Central

Catering Contracts for Startups and Small Businesses: A Practical Guide

Catering seems simple until it isn't: an event runs late, headcount changes, dietary needs are missed, equipment doesn't arrive, or the venue's rules…

Startup Central

Accounting Services Agreements: What Startups Need to Know Before Signing

Many startups and small businesses outsource bookkeeping and tax work long before they hire an internal finance team.

Health Tech

Negotiating HIPAA Business Associate Agreements with Digital Health Vendors

HIPAA's statutory floor for BAAs is lower than most covered entities realize. This guide covers what to demand in BAA negotiations with digital health vendors — from permitted use scope and AI training prohibitions to breach notification, audit rights, and PHI disposition at contract end.

EdTech

Parental Consent UX Patterns That Pass FTC Scrutiny

COPPA requires verifiable parental consent before you collect data from children under 13 — and a checkbox doesn't cut it. Here's what the FTC actually enforces, which consent mechanisms are approved, and a practical UX checklist for EdTech product teams.

Health Tech

FDA Regulation of Software as a Medical Device: A Founder's Guide to SaMD Pathways

FDA regulates software as a medical device based on what it does, not what it looks like. This guide covers the SaMD definition, IMDRF risk classification, 510(k)/De Novo/PMA pathways, FDA's PCCP framework, and clinical evidence requirements for founders.

Hardware Founders

Semiconductor Export Controls: What Engineers and Hardware Founders Need to Know About the EAR

The EAR reaches inside US chip labs, R&D teams, and employee rosters. ECCNs, the deemed export rule, Entity List obligations, October 2022 China chip rules, and a practical compliance checklist for semiconductor engineers and hardware founders.

Streamers

COPPA on YouTube and Twitch: What Streamers Actually Need to Know

After Disney's $10M FTC settlement, COPPA enforcement is hitting creators directly. What streamers need to know about Made for Kids, Twitch's age rule, the 2025 Final Rule, and the contract terms to push for in brand deals.

Streamers

FTC Endorsement Rules for Streamers: What to Disclose and How

An FTC compliance guide for streamers on Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Kick: what counts as an endorsement, the "clear and conspicuous" disclosure standard, format-specific rules for live/VOD/Shorts, streamer-specific pitfalls, and what FTC enforcement actually looks like under the 2024 Final Rule.

EdTech

COPPA's April 22 Amendments: What Changed for EdTech Operators in 2026

The FTC’s 2025 COPPA Final Rule took effect April 22, 2026 with no grace period. Here’s what changed for EdTech operators: new biometric and geolocation data categories, data minimization and retention requirements, unbundled consent mechanics, and an expanded verification menu.

EdTech

Drafting Direct Notice Under COPPA: What EdTech Operators Need in Their Disclosure

COPPA requires a direct notice separate from your privacy policy — two documents with two different legal functions. Here's what EdTech operators must include, from the statutory checklist to the 2025 amendments.

EdTech

Mixed-Age Audiences and COPPA: What EdTech Founders Must Do When Teens Use Your Platform

COPPA's April 22, 2026 deadline has passed. Most EdTech platforms with teen users are already out of compliance with the amended rule's mixed-audience requirements. What triggers the obligation, what the general audience defense covers, and how to design a consent flow that survives FTC scrutiny.

Health Tech

Telehealth Across State Lines: What Digital Health Founders Need to Know Before Expanding

Expanding your telehealth platform across state lines triggers licensing, privacy, and prescribing obligations in every state where your patients are located. This guide maps the federal framework, state licensing compacts, state privacy laws, and DEA controlled substance rules.

Startup Central

Why Legal Oversight of Your Startup Cap Table Is Non-Negotiable

Early-stage teams often treat the cap table as “whatever’s in Carta” or a living spreadsheet.

Digital Presence & Online Policies

Who Needs to Care About the FTC’s Endorsement Guides (and Why)

The FTC's Endorsement Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 255) are the rulebook for modern word-of-mouth marketing.

Business Formation & Corporate Governance

Legal Compliance and Strategic Stock Issuance for Startups: A Practical Guide

Issuing stock is one of the first consequential legal and financial decisions a startup makes.

Health Tech

Women's Health Data Privacy After Dobbs: An Operator's Playbook for Period-Tracking, Telehealth, and Reproductive-Health Apps

Dobbs reshaped the threat model for women's health, fertility, and telehealth operators. A practical guide to the four legal regimes that touch your data, the new state-actor adversaries, and the engineering and policy changes operators should make this quarter.

Legal Tech & Automation

Use Data Science to Turn Legal Questions into Better Business Decisions

Startups and growing businesses face increasingly complex legal decisions — contracts at scale, privacy and security obligations, employment issues,…

Streamers

DMCA Counter-Notice Playbook: How Streamers Fight Copyright Strikes (And When Not To)

A copyright strike on Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, or Kick can take down your video in hours and threaten your channel. The DMCA counter-notice is your statutory tool to fight back — but it's a sworn legal document, not a support ticket. Here's how the mechanics work and when to use them.