Ryan Coffield is a business attorney with the Business Practice Group at Van Winkle Law firm based in Asheville, NC. He is originally from Matthews NC where it's very hot. He always enjoyed coming to Asheville and has been here for 7 years. 95% of his works involves helping people with the process of forming, acquiring, reorganizing a business, and day to day operational questions, business contracts and intellectual property.  His advice to anyone starting a business is to hire an attorney - why? Because the business owner is focused on getting it going and there's enough to worry about with just the startup process.  The attorney focuses on ensuring you are protected legally, considers tax implications and works to protect you in your business relationships. Learn more in this podcast including the challenges and opportunities and Ryan's advice to entrepreneurs.