Although the blog has been quiet the last couple of months, many
exciting things have been happening.
In November, I had the opportunity to teach Law &
Entrepreneurship to law students at the College of Law and
Business in Ramat Gan, Israel. Through this course, I taught my
students about the legal issues involved in guiding a technology
start-up through its life cycle – from idea to an exit. Given
the fact that Israel is known as "Start-up Nation" or the
"Silicon Wadi," the students had great familiarity with
start-ups in general and were enthusiastic and engaged in learning
about the legal issues for these types of companies in the United
States. The students were especially interested when I discussed
Israeli companies that had success in Pittsburgh, such as dbMotion. Their
final project was to prepare a client memorandum in English.
I was pleasantly surprised at both the level of analysis and
application of the law, as well the level of writing, given
