Templates and resources
The documents you will be asked for.
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Idea. Nothing is built yet and the work is finding out whether the problem is real. What matters is evidence from people who have it, and a founding team that has settled equity and IP before there is anything to argue about.
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Equity and people
- Founder vesting scheduleFour years, one-year cliff, modelled per founder with the decisions to settle beside it. Vesting protects whoever stays, and the founder who argues hardest against it is describing the outcome it prevents.XLSX · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed
- Advisory board agreementWhat to settle before offering equity to an advisor, the usual range, and the filter that catches most relationships which do not work out.PDF · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed
- Offer letter with an equity promiseHow to word a grant you cannot make yet. Writing a percentage with nothing else is the promise that becomes a dispute.PDF · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed, Seed