On this edition of the Monthly Legal Updater we delve into the top legal stories that will affect businesses.

The most important part of any business is your intellectual property. The methods and technology you’ve developed to distinguish yourself from your competitors is everything. Protecting your IP is hugely important. Most businesses can start-up with an internet connection and a web page so you don’t have to do this right away. It’s going to become much more important later in the Business Legal Lifecycle.

It’s a new month and time for another phase of the BLL. Understanding your financials is a critical part of any successful business but it’s not a skill that everyone understands. There are five things you have to get right.

Today on BLL we're excited to welcome Peter Docker onto the program. Peter is a speaker, teacher and author of the book Find Your Why: A practical guide for discovering purpose for you and your team. Peter says he exists to help people find the real purpose in their working lives so they can do extraordinary things. Peter says your why is not created, it's discovered. That's what makes it authentic

and real.

On this edition of the show we present the 7 things you need to consider before entering a lease. Finding a suitable place to setup your business is a critical decision that you don't want to enter into lightly.

Dave Scott is an expert digital marketer who has focused his career on helping businesses to sell online. He arrived in the digital space after spending the first part of his career in sales and marketing with some major US retailers. After a friend started a digital marketing agency he joined as a partner and began to refocus his expertise in the online space. In 2017 he struck out on his own and founded Scott Marketing.

Buying into a franchise can be a really efficient way of starting a new business. But there are risks involved. Today on Fast Fix Monday we cover the 5 things you need to consider before becoming a franchisee.

Starting a new business is not easy. Today, we’ve invited entrepreneur Alan Manly to tell us all the ways a business can succeed or fail. He is currently the head of Group Colleges Australia and is the author of the book The Unlikely Entrepreneur.

We continue to talk about structures all this months. There are several different ways for you to set-up your business.

We’re excited to offer a different kind of episode. We’ve decided to offer a training episode about each phase of the Business Legal Lifecycle. This month we the things you need to get right when setting up your business.