Questions regarding written agreements between parties business or otherwise.
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How do I draft a letter of intent?
I have an idea I am working on that I believe will be useful. I have been told that verbally several times.
Rather than spend money on developing it to completion, I want my proposed ...
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Require attribution with a link for SaaS widget?
I'm trying out a new product where race directors put a widget on their site which gives them access to the mapping data on my site and I'm setting up my contract.
I'm considering whether the ...
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Convincing a customer about a right decision
Just had an experience in my startup about a customer in my software start up. I develop server based software products for the past year and have a few customers for the same.
A new customer came ...
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Intellectual Property and Day Jobs
I run a small tech company providing custom web development (in Ontario, Canada), and I have a few clients. However, as I am still a student in university, I have co-op positions that I take every ...
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Is a non-compete enforceable if you are not an employee of the company?
My wife has an offer from a company in NYC and the contract says specifically that she would be an independent consultant for a 3 month trial period, and not an employee of the company during that ...
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How do I protect myself contractually while providing software consulting services?
My partner and I are software developers. We have formed an LLC and are starting to take consulting gigs. We have spent most of our careers at larger companies and have never been involved with ...
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Consulting on work related to future planned product
We recently approached a large company with a proposal to build them an application we thought they'd find useful.
The idea is that they'd partner with us to get it developed and get unlimited use ...
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Online web design business: Contract or not?
I am doing a web design and development business planning. The system is client buy a website package online >> make a payment >> I collect their requirement >> We work together until the end of the ...
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Ways to work around creating a startup when working a job with a restrictive contract
I am happily employed as a software developer currently and have no plans to leave.
An amazing opportunity presented itself to my dad that just screamed of a lucrative niche market with only a ...
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Need a terms of service generator for a web design startup
Does anybody know a good terms of service generator? I need one that, besides inserting company name and etc, will outline my and my customers' rights so I don't have to read the whole thing. I'm only ...
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Is making your contract viewable online before purchase a good idea?
As part of being transparent, we're thinking of putting our contract up online in our services section. The idea is that people would be able to have a look, question us in advance, and overall be ...
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A couple questions regarding mass product construction
What is the name for a company that contracts with other companies to mass produce products? And how hard and what is the process to get a contract of such for a small startup?
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Dealing with a Slow Developer
We outsourced development (out of the country) to get a prototype of our site put together. The developer estimated 8 weeks for the project, but admitted that they could not guarantee that it might ...
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I am a web model and I signed a contract with a non-compete clause I want to get out with out a problem help?
The contract is for 2 years and im only 2 months into it and it also has a non compete clause/Exclusivity clause ... so i really want to get out of this fast its a bad bad deal..
D. Exclusivity. Not ...
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Should we refund the deposit?
For a new website, he paid a deposit of $210 (30%). He looked through our porfolio, and got about 1/4 way through before saying "Awesome. Let's start!".
We for him 2 design images and he didn't like ...
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Why can't a startup “own” its employees when sport clubs can?
Soccer clubs (at least in Europe) "own" their players for the duration of the contracts. These players are working for their clubs in a very similar way to employees working for startups. My question, ...
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Are convertible note contract templates available?
I don't want to pay for an attorney to write a contract for me.
Is there a good convertible note contract template that I can use?
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How to outsource a software development process?
We are having a good idea for a software product. Since its complexity surpasses the capacities for a one man army or perhaps of a small software team, it will be necessary to outsource software ...
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1answer
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Writing a contract for SaaS sales - what to expect?
My side project startup company is close to starting to sell our product. We are offering it using a Software as a Service pricing model. The price is well defined and will range from $1,000 to $4,000 ...
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Universal NDA agreements
I'll be starting a "startup" that will require me to see existing code, propritary data, etc. I'm sure that most of my potential clients will not already have an NDA for me to sign so I want to be ...
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Give copies of a contract
Are we legally required to give a copy of the contract to the other party in the agreement (employee, contractor)?
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How important is it to have the original of a contract?
How important is it to have the original of a contract? Would having just a copy of a signed contract still make it enforceable? Is it any different than signing two copies of the same contract?
Is ...
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What to do with side projects when joining a startup on the same field
I am thinking about joining a startup and I have a question. I have been working on a side project for a couple months and I own it completely. This side project is internet related (so is the ...
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I am starting what I thought was a partnership with an existing business in a new location
I bring a skillset and experience they do not have.
We discussed terms and were set on a split of revenue and equity. We went to for licensing and signing of the lease and ran into some issues. As ...
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Enforcing international agreements/contracts
I'm just curious about how a contract between two parties in different countries would handle breaches/consequences of said contract.
Let's say between two parties in USA and Asia. If the contract ...
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Is it better to have a formal contract on ownership prior to accepting external investment?
Not assigning anyone any equity until we get funding, despite that fact that I am the tech.-cofounder i need to start developing a demo to show investors.
Should an actual contract really be worked ...
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What does employment at will actually mean for an employee?
I've recently (5 months ago) signed and employment-at-will contract with a largish company. I start in 2 months. Given different scenarios, I want to figure out not only what this legally means, but ...
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Recommend a supplier of (UK) template contracts for software development [closed]
I'm looking to purchase a template contract for delivering fixed scope/price software development projects, dealing with IP issues and everything else that needs to be taken into consideration.
I can ...
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California law and sending “written notice” by email
I've decided to ask this question here, as there is no better StackExchange site to ask and it's also not that much off-topic for OnStartups.
I'm from Europe and I signed (by email) IT service ...
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Can a contract legally cover something that happened before its signing?
When we hired a new employee we forgot to make him sign an NDA. Now, a year into his employment, we want to make sure that he signs one. My question is, what language should I use in the contract to ...
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Plain english translation of these finance terms
What does these mean in plain English, guessing the best way to describe it is by giving theoretical numbers for best worst case instances, though that's just my thought - I'll leave it up to you to ...
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What type of contract is required when offering a service?
So I started a small business offering a service that is provided through-out the month and is billed monthly. This service could be stopped at any point, but I want to make sure the following are ...
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Does Company Equity Entitlement need to be in your employment contract?
Should a company equity entitlement be stated in your employment contract?
If not, what entitlement to any equity do you have?
Particularly if you're already employed there?
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Is there an inbetween step between “a trial period” and “co-founder”?
Greetings,
I am planning on joining a start up with someone as a co-founder and right now we're in a hurry to get product off the ground. I've worked with this person in
a trial period and I ...
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Retainer fees for freelance software engineers - is this common practice, can I use this?
I have a relatively new business - I've recently been freelancing as a software engineer for 6 months, working from my own office for a couple of companies having contracted on site before for about ...
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Overbudget and unable to complete software contract. What can I do and what can I expect to happen?
This might be a slightly long story, but I really would appreciate any help you can give me here. I am a young entrepreneur and currently run a struggling website development / software company.
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How to present and sell a business/product (one in the same) to potential buyer (bigger company) without risking them stealing my idea?
I have developed my product completely, and have built a business for the product to be able to take to market. The product is unlike anything else on the market as of now and in my opinion would work ...
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What are the proper steps (contracts, terms, payments agreements) when hiring freelance developers?
I'm looking to hire some developers to help bang out some features of my app that I can't do myself yet. I'm going to be able to give them pretty specific tasks and if they do well continue on and ...
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Survey / Ballot / e-sign tool
I've noticed a trade-off in survey and e-sign tools.
Survey tool:
Low cost for large volumes
Manage Survey Workflow well
Excellent data collection / reporting
Does not offer signature
Does not ...
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In B2B situations what do you clients mean when they ask to partner with you?
We have had a range of clients ask something like the following, we are looking for someone to partner with ...
How do you see this being different from a straight Client/Supplier style relationship? ...
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Micro Company started, do they need to incorporate, or there is a better way?
If one individual has been delivering services to other corporations. So far they have been paying the individual to his name "John Doe". The individual now is hiring sub-contractors, to do other ...
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How to protect yourself from a subcontractor taking your client?
If I sub-contract, what forms, or agreements I need to make sure that my subcontractors don't compete with me in the near future.
How do I make sure that my sub-contractor will not be hired ...
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Is the promise of a contract legally binding?
I promised someone that I would enter into a contract with them in the future. Basically I promised that I'd sell them a website for a fixed price in the future. This was an informal, oral agreement, ...
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Agile With Fixed Pricing?
I am starting a company and am considering agile development, but I don't understand how a Fixed Price contract (the type I would like to use), could work. It seems like the point of Agile is to keep ...
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What are good sites for finding CMS data entry sub-contractors?
I prefer to do work on my own sites, but I occasionally take one-off small business website jobs where I work with a designer, who owns the client relationship. Most of these sites are content ...
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Should a software license and maintenance support be on same agreement?
If I am selling to an SMB or enterprise should I have seperate agreements for license and annual maintenance /tech support?
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Online contract management solution? [closed]
Anyone know of an ONLINE solution for managing contracts, legal forms, etc? Something where I could generate, send, sign, and store legal contracts online- so that both parties would never need to ...
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When is an NDA valid? OR How generic is is too generic?
There are a lot of questions up here about NDAs but I didn't see anything for more generic forms. Here's my issue:
I'm a software engineer and have written some iOS (iPhone/iPad) software. A friend ...
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Any contract draft before beginning a startup
A friend of mine and me (both early 20s) are teaming up with a seasoned professional person who owns a PR agency. We are jointly developing an Internet marketing idea that could turn out profitable. ...
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How much should we charge for an IT job?
The scenario
We just got our very first medium/large size client.
They are opening a new company which operates around a web application that will be entirely developed and maintained by us.
We ...
