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Startup Cyber Risk Checklist
Cyber liability is a huge area of exposure for most startups. Even if you’re not a “tech” startup per se, most tech companies today tend to leverage 3rd party tech products in ways that can leave them exposed.
Read ArticleInsurance for B2C services companies
The Space There’s a new breed of technology-enabled B2C services startups and we deal with a ton of them at Founder Shield. Think Uber, GetMaid, Makespace…all of these companies use custom platforms to access traditional service providers in very non-traditional ways. This creates exposure to a wide variety of liability. Here’s a quick look:
Read ArticleThe Affordable Care Act and Startups
With the recent launch of fresh government programs under the Affordable Care Act, the landscape is changing massively in the health insurance space. We can’t help but think about what effects the new healthcare laws will have on startups.
Read ArticleStartups Beware! CA Breach Notification Laws Expanded
The New CA Breach Notification Law If you’re a tech startup, your duties to protect your users’ personal information just got a bit more onerous. Last Friday (Sept 27th), Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that expands the security/data breach notification requirements beyond their current spectrum.
Read ArticleInsurance for SaaS & Enterprise Companies
The Space The SaaS space is hot spot for startups. We work with several companies building SaaS solutions, ranging from data collection to “consultative sales” to outpatient management and all done in the cloud.
Read ArticleWhy Startups Need Insurance
While this list is definitely not exhaustive, I wanted to briefly shed some light on a couple of the reasons why startups need insurance and should look into coverage options regardless of where they are in their life cycle.
Read ArticleStartup Insurance & Cyber Liability realities you might not expect…
Cyber Liability Insurance is one of the biggest issues we deal with at Founder Shield. The vast majority of our clients are either straight tech startups or they’re leveraging technology to make their product or service scale. I think we can all agree that it’s probably impossible to run a startup these days without a
Read ArticleA Note from the Founder: “Why Insurance?”
During my time at Kohort, one of the tasks that fell under my responsibility was assisting with the purchase of insurance for the company. We had just raised $3 million in seed money and we were a legitimate company. Legitimate companies need insurance. No one really wants to spend money on something from which you
Read ArticleWelcome!
This post officially kicks off our blog series here at Founder Shield, and for right now, we’ll keep it short and sweet.
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