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Some of legal mistakes that start-up companies and their lawyers make may kill your startup. These mistakes can be rectified, but many will result in your start-up company being Dead on Arrival when it looks for financing or acquisition opportunities. Knowing what those mistakes are and how to avoid them is essential to starting and building a successful company.

The book Dead on Arrival by Roger Royse is essential to help you recognize potential pitfalls and to avoid falling victim to the mistakes that cause companies to fail. This book is a must read for every start-up entrepreneur and lawyer in the start-up space.

Roger Royse is the founder of Royse Law Firm, a business and tax law firm with offices in Northern and Southern California. Roger has practiced tax and business law since 1984 in markets as diverse as Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley and has helped clients navigate legal issues and opportunities in a variety of industries including technology, entertainment and real estate. Roger has served as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University and is a frequent speaker, writer and blogger for bar associations CPA organizations, and prominent business groups. Roger regularly advises domestic and international startup and emerging growth companies on formation, financing and exit planning.

In addition to providing in-depth legal counsel, Roger's firm applies innovative technology platforms to offer cost-effective, efficient and responsive legal solutions, opportunities, and connections to the business community.

Dead on Arrival: How to Avoid the Legal Mistakes That Could Kill Your Start-Up Dead on Arrival, Avoiding the Legal Mistakes That Could Kill Your Start-Up takes you through the legal mistakes that start-up companies and their lawyers make on their way to success and how to avoid making those mistakes. Some of those mistakes can be rectified, but many will result in your star...

AI is the center of attention not only in the tech community, but also in media, entertainment, religion, and government. Amidst all of the hype amongst startups and AI enthusiasts, some believe that there is a lot of potential for machine learning to solve seriously complex and critical problems.

Companies around the world are focused on algorithms to analyze patterns of behavior, lifestyle, health and biometric data, social activity, personal preferences, relationships, etc. Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Apple already use intelligent systems to improve our shopping experiences, provide all sorts of assistance, and analyze our communication on social media. Soon, the level of immersion of AI into our lives will be dramatic, with limitless possibilities to collect data from all sorts of devices and items which you use on daily basis. AI will improve our work environment, task management, and hiring processes. For instance Salesforce is working on its artificial intelligence service called Einstein that will simplify tasks and help employees to work more efficiently.

Hiring processes and recruitment are also being refined. AI optimizes hiring systems by focusing only on skills, domain expertise, and knowledge and eliminating some personal information, such as gender, race and age. For example, companies like Beamery and ThisWay Global use machine learning software to enhance matching systems with the skills of the candidates required by an employer’s requirements.

In the future, machines may even analyze your existence and your mental state. With better-than-human accuracy, AI can analyze test results to predict and prevent diseases. Some of the leaders in this field are iCarbonX and Zebra Medical Systems. The deeper the Artificial Intelligence is immersed in our lives the more intelligent it will become. It's hard to believe, though, in a decade or two AI may solve the human quest for potential biological immortality by analyzing biometric data and huge libraries of medical images.

Not only will your personal data be used by machine learning algorithms, but also data from your partners, pets, cars, boats, your smart home, and all of your surroundings. This all has the potential to create a new hyper-modern lifestyle - a solipsistic existence as it were - within a completely transparent environment. Transparency in this case, is not just transparent to other humans, but also means being constantly monitored and analyzed by these ever-watchful algorithms and intelligent systems.

Perhaps in the future, we'll have AI mentors who analyze our patterns of behavior and help to make you happier, and give you more free time to spend with your family and friends. We might agree to share everything, just to make sure that it will solve all our problems we created on this planet. The AI will structure our lives differently, adding free time for other activities, more time to learn something new, read more, create something good and useful.

And yet a part of me still believes that sometimes being in the wrong helps us to find the right. It helps us to evaluate and compare. Maybe we have to go through difficulties and make mistakes - to value every minute of free time, maybe we have to be busy and miserable. When you have too much time on your hands, finding motivations might just be another problem. And when we enter this realm of the human experience, I think that we'll find what many people have discovered throughout history - you can't lead a horse to water, no matter how many algorithms are involved.

Article and illustration by Alena Starostina

We see a strong focus on AI and robotics to replace human to human interaction, to probably address the rising loneliness in our society. Maybe we are losing track and going in the wrong direction.

AI should not replace human relationships, it should enhance it, support it, making it more meaningful. It should make our lives more happy & healthy. Bartelomeus De Witte discussed the future of relationships and how AI can help us to create stronger connections with our partners, more specifically how it can act as a predictive marriage councilor.

Do we really want to fall in love with a virtual Scarlett Johansson, or HER? Last weekend I attended Yoshi Vardi’s Kinnernet at Maurizio’s H-Farm in Venice.

Interview of Sophia, the robot that dreams about becoming a singer and movie star ⭐️

Our interview of Sophia and the founder of Hanson Robotics is coming soon.

Tech Focus interviews Sophia Viklund the founder and CEO of New Sun Technologies, co-founder and an advisor to the Silicon Valley Deep Learning Grouptech. Sophia is a tech leader, innovator, mentor, investor, and entrepreneur. She hosts panel discussions and conferences for women in tech with a focus on the impact of artificial intelligence.

https://youtu.be/NcEed5tnbJs

Tech Leader Sophia Viklund interviewed by Alena Starostina for Tech Focus Tech Focus interview of Sophia Viklund the founder and CEO of New Sun Technologies, co-founder and an advisor to the Silicon Valley Deep Learning Grouptech. ...

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Alena Starostina interviewed Roger Royse, the Founder of Royse Law Firm, to learn how tech changes the legal system.

https://youtu.be/jAYn5BkXVFw

Roger Royse interview for Tech Focus magazine Tech Focus interviewed Roger Royse, the founder of Royse Law firm, at one of his offices located in Menlo Park, California. http://rroyselaw.com/people/roger...

Out video interview with Roger Royse will be available soon

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