Some interesting legal reads for the week of November 24, 2014:
- From Entrepreneur magazine, an interesting business model for loans to startups: the loan is conditioned on 25% of the loan amount being raised by friends and family of the founders.
- The Wall Street Journal on a U.S. Department of Labor crackdown on inflated valuations for employee-stock-ownership plans (ESOPs).
- Good practical advice from Bloomberg BusinessWeek about when separate businesses should be run through separate entities.