| Session Name: | Formation: Legal and Accounting Issues |
| Speaker(s): | David Baszucki, Jim Charne, Don Daglow, Gary Gattis, Bill Graner, Jeffrey Lapin, James Niesewand, Dan Offner, David Rosenbaum, Rob Shillingsburg |
| Company Name(s): | ROBLOX, Law Offices James Charne, Daglow Entertainment, Spacetime Studios, Crater House, WWTX, LLC, Illyriad Games, Loeb & Loeb, Law Offices of David S Rosenbaum, Jetbolt Games |
| Track / Format: | Game Dev Start-Up Summit |
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| Overview: | Innovation in designing and making games is not enough to assure survival for a new company. At the start-up stage, there are a host of legal and accounting issues that should be addressed. Should the company be a corporation, LLC, partnership, or "dba?" Can all your staff all be contractors? What's the difference between a contractor and an employee? Finding and leasing office space. Selecting a bookkeeper, lawyer, payroll service. Adding benefits. The value of an employee handbook. Planning for when a founder wants to leave - or is asked to leave. |
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