The FAST Agreement is used by tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and advisors per year to establish productive working relationships, trading advice and support for a standardized amount of equity.
7 Startup Agreements That Save Companies (and Friendships) | Signus
Founder blowups and cap-table surprises are mostly preventable. A focused seven-document set—Founders Agreement, SAFE (Post-Money), Mutual NDA, Independent Contractor Agreement, Advisory Agreement, Consulting Agreement, and PIIA—closes the early gaps that orphan IP, muddle equity, and stall deals. Right-size what you send; use the subset that fits the moment. Clarity beats memory.
Entrepreneurship and ADHD: Fast Brain, Fast Company?
Entrepreneurship and ADHD are connected in research — and the anecdotal success of businesses ranging from JetBlue to Kinko’s and beyond. Here, entreprene…
Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE): Definition, Benefits, and Risks
A simple agreement for future equity (SAFE) is a seed-funding instrument that issues equity rights to be converted at a later date if triggered.
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Quick Share
Quick Share is a wireless peer-to-peer data transfer service for Android, ChromeOS and Windows. Originally developed by Samsung Electronics for its own devices, Google subsequently collaborated with Samsung and merged its own Nearby Share into Quick Share in 2024, distributing Quick Share to non-Galaxy Android devices through Google Play Services and releasing a Windows app for non-Galaxy PCs.
AI Pacing Agreements: Legal Issues and Potential Strategies to Manage Them | Insights | Holland & Knight
AI pacing agreements aim to slow frontier AI development for safety but raise major antitrust risks and require careful structuring, oversight and safe harbors.
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s no time to schedule calls, get input from subject matter experts, or resolve key differences of opinion. ASAP makes a big assumption that all relevant parties are already in the room.
About Us | Connect Ventures
About Connect Ventures. Who we are, what we do, and how we partner with teams to build and scale durable businesses.
Dripline: How we co-operate | Hypha
Notes on incorporation, co-operation, and solidarity from a one year old co-op.
Standard Contracts - Common Paper
Common Paper standard agreements have been downloaded more than 40,000 times and used to close millions of dollars in deals. They are created and maintained by a committee of expert attorneys and released for free under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.
Modern Treasury Journal - How to Build an Income Sharing Agreement Product
Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined formula. In this way, the funder can be thought of less as a debt investor and more as an equity investor, receiving “dividends” from the students future earnings.
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If you're interested in starting a worker-owned cooperative, this letter is for you.
Noncompete Agreements Are Bad for Employees and the Economy
The free flow of employees and ideas encourages innovation. Just ask Silicon Valley.
YC Safe Financing Documents | Y Combinator
Information about startup documents, including the safe (simple agreement for future equity).
02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM
How Keyhive groups can agree on keys over time
The Power of Smarter Balanced Partnerships - SmarterBalanced
OUR VISION > POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS The Power of Partnerships and Collaboration Smarter Balanced is a member-led consortium that collaborates with K-12 and higher education leaders and educators to create an assessment system that ensures teachers have the tools they need to support the diverse learning needs of students. What makes Smarter Balanced different? Smarter…
