Garcia-Zamor Blog

Your first $50K enterprise customer sends you their standard agreement. It's 40 pages. Their legal team drafted every word. Your instinct: sign it and move on. You need this...

Here is something I see regularly with SaaS founders: they assume they own everything their contractors build. The website. The dashboard. The marketing assets. All of it. They...

You just got the call. An investor wants to move forward, and due diligence starts in 30 days. Here is what I see in my practice: founders who spent three years building...

Most founders assume that protecting a valuable innovation means filing a patent. It's the default move. But I see this create real strategic problems. Patents require you to...

You're scaling past $2M in revenue. Legal complexity is real. Contracts are getting bigger, your team is growing, and you're starting to think: "Maybe it's time to hire a general...

Most founders think about trademark filing the wrong way. They treat it like a finish line - something you cross after the brand is "ready." After the logo is perfect. After the...

Your customer just sent a 40-page contract. They want it signed by end of day. You're not a lawyer. You don't have time to read every clause. And you really want this deal....

Here's something that surprises most founders when I tell them: under U.S. copyright law, the person who creates something owns it by default. Not your company. Them. That...

Most business attorneys can review your contracts. Fewer can tell you whether your trademark filing strategy will hold up against a competitor's challenge, or why your employment...