ABSTRACT

Best practices for leaving an employer ................................................................................... 119 Can a noncompetition agreement keep me from starting a new business? ...................... 121 How not to breach your duty of loyalty to your soon-to-be former employer ................ 123 Risks of using trade secrets from a former employer ........................................................... 124 Practical considerations: salary, equipment, and insurance ................................................ 126

Many established entrepreneurs can vividly describe that one moment when they’d fi nally decided to leave their employer. Some will reference this point as the fi rst moment when they’d realized they had become an entrepreneur.