025: Keith Finch – How building a business should be more like gardening than hunting

Roanoke Advice Givers | Business Owners | Entrepreneurs | Interviewing Our Community's Brightest Minds | Hal Cone

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Keith Finch is an attorney with the Creekmore Law Firm. He likes BIG THICK contracts and he will help you form a company. Plus, he dose intellectual property – trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Heck, he will even help you purchase or sell a business.

If you are looking for Keith to help you with wills, personal injury, divorces, or child custody. He is NOT your man.

Keith grew up in Blacksburg, but admits, a lot of what’s shaped him has been his time overseas. He lived and worked in France for 2 years and Japan for 11 years. This international experience really allowed Keith to hone his contract legal skills.

He has been back home for quite a few years now. And, he is excited to utilize his international expertise right here in Blacksburg and Roanoke in helping you.

When it comes to business law and contracts, Keith is YOUR MAN. He loves diving into a thick contract and losing himself in it, grasping its structure, and then fixing it – squeezing out all the ambiguities, then making it do what the parties to the contract really want it to do. There is a science to it. And, Keith has mastered that science.

If you are starting your own business, embrace Keith’s expert insight below (it’s not legal advice, but it sure is worthwhile advice):

• make sure you have enough capital to swing for the fence
• test your market, test your market, and test your market again
• know your blind spots and learn how to check them
• think about where the track will lead when you go off of it — put differently, if things go well then you will stay on that single track you’ve planned for, but if things don’t go well then there are dozens of other tracks you could find yourself on
• if you find you’re in a rush, be sure to ask why; if it’s possible to slow down, then slow down

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Join us this month (August) for a look at Virginia’s charitable gaming regulations and learn how to legally add a little fun to your events while keeping the organization and its principles out of hot water with the authorities.

• Blacksburg: August 23
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September
Grant Management

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October
IP Ownership Rights

• Blacksburg: October 25
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November
Noncompetes

• Blacksburg: November 15
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December
Franchise Problems, Accidental Franchise

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