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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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4 resources
Setting up the company
- Founder agreement checklistEquity, vesting, roles, time and what happens if somebody leaves before the company exists. The questions founders regret not answering early, in roughly the order they cause damage.DOCX · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed
- Non-disclosure agreementWhat an NDA settles, when it is worth asking for, and the one situation founders reach for it that costs them the meeting.PDF · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed
- Intellectual property assignmentThe most common fatal finding in diligence is that the company does not own its own product. Who has to sign, what it must cover, and the agency clause to read twice.PDF · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed, Seed
- Incorporation checklistThe paperwork that has to exist from day one: formation documents, agreements between people, IP assignments and the option scheme.DOCX · Sign in to download · Idea, Prototype, Pre-seed