An Office Redesign Opens the Opportunity to Support Businesses You Believe In
Offices and workspaces act as reflections of a business’s personality — they can be funky, serious, modern, rustic. But these spaces are also a representation of a business’s values — a chance for companies to share with employees and clients the mission of their organization through intentional purchases. Whether you’re setting up a new office or redesigning a current space, you can choose to support local artists in your community and purchase from companies with a stated mission to have a positive impact in the world.
Rockridge Venture Law has offices in Chattanooga and Cookeville, Tennessee, and Durham, North Carolina. We challenged ourselves to live our values during our recent Cookeville expansion. As a Certified B Corporation law group, we wanted to support people creating in our community and fellow purpose-driven businesses so our clients could be exposed to the stories of these companies as they worked with us. …
See If Your Mid-Atlantic State Provides a Governance Structure for Businesses Seeking Purpose and Profit
In our experience, Certified B Corporations and benefit corporations are not yet common knowledge in many places across the country. We’ve been working to change that, or even to just slightly move the needle, by spreading the word about B Corps and benefit corporation structures through workshops and articles.
The next phase of our plan involves distribution of regional guides that provide insight for companies into what “going B” would look like. …
See If Your Southeastern State Provides a Governance Structure for Businesses Seeking Purpose and Profit
In our experience, Certified B Corporations and benefit corporations are not common knowledge in Tennessee or the Southeast … at least not yet. We’ve been working to change that, or even to just slightly move the needle, by spreading the word about B Corps and benefit corporation structures through workshops and articles.
The next phase of our plan involves distribution of regional guides that provide insight for companies into what “going B” would look like. …
The Legal Step Entrepreneurs Can Take to Safeguard Their Business’s Purpose
When you’re launching a new business, you are likely hoping to use it to provide an unmet need or solve a problem you see in the world or your community. Your mission is your reason for putting in the long hours and taking on the stress and responsibility of being a founder of a new for-profit company.
From my experience launching and now growing a law firm, Rockridge Venture Law, I know all too well the struggles many entrepreneurs face, especially in just getting the business off the ground. And from my time working with fellow missional entrepreneurs, I’ve seen too many businesses lose their ultimate purpose and get forced by various factors into compromising on their mission. …
Feeling like you’ve seen and heard about “CBD oil” more in 2019 than ever before? That’s likely due to the passage of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (known as the 2018 Farm Act), which became law on December 20, 2018. The Farm Act removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act’s (CSA’s) definition of marijuana . Consequently, hemp plants and their derivatives such as cannabidiol (CBD) that contain no more than .3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC) are no longer controlled substances under the CSA.
LET THE BROWNIES BAKE! Oh, wait, we’re just talking about CBD. But that’s not so bad! Business is booming in CBD, where apparently a whole bunch of anxious people are pushing a $1b industry. …
Last month, we posted about our new recyclable binders on social media. As we mentioned in the post, we do try to keep most of our operations in the “cloud” (more on that later), but sometimes we do have to print hard copies of documents and wanted to figure out a better way to house them. …
We all know how to use Google. Type in what you want and *boom,* you’re able to access thousands of results, with the most relevant information on the first few pages. Right?
Well, with the rise of paid internet advertising, companies have started to sneak their way into the top of your search results. Companies can purchase “keywords” so that their ad pops up if you type in something containing that keyword.
This can be a viable tool — but what happens if someone else buys the keywords of your trademarks? Or, what happens when a company buys their competitors’ trademarks as keywords so that the they appear ABOVE the actual company? …
RVL® works with many clients who have great business ideas — but we find that they often don’t utilize (or even know about) the network and resources available to them in our state. Luckily, there are a variety of TN entrepreneur centers, incubators, and accelerators that work to pair these entrepreneurs and founders with mentors and investors to help Tennessee ventures grow and thrive.
We compiled this list to (1) show the sheer amount of entrepreneur-assistance that exists in our state and (2) to best connect you with a mentor/business resource located close to where you live and work. …
In our experience, B Corps and Benefit Corporations are not common knowledge in Tennessee or the Southeast… at least not yet. We’ve been working to change that, or even to just slightly move the needle, by spreading the word about B Corps and Benefit Company structures through various workshops and blog articles.
The next phase of our plan involves distribution of these regional guides (like the one for the Southeast below and The Mid-Atlantic Guide to B Corps ) that provides insight for companies into what “going B” would look like. …
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