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Terms of Service for Online Marketplace Platforms: What Sellers, Buyers, and Operators Need
Running a two-sided marketplace is legally different from running a single-vendor e-commerce store. You are not selling your own products. You are operating the platform through which sellers and buyers transact, which means you are exposed to legal risk on both sides of every deal: seller fraud, buyer disputes, product…
IP Assignment Agreement for Startups: What Founders and Contractors Must Know
When a startup raises its first funding round, investors and their lawyers will review who actually owns the company’s intellectual property. If a founder wrote code before the company was incorporated, or if a contractor built a core feature without a written agreement, that IP may not legally belong to…
Software Development Agreement: What Every Business Founder Must Know Before Signing or Hiring
You hired a developer six months ago. The product launched. Now that developer is gone, and your legal team just told you the code might not belong to you. This scenario plays out more often than you would expect. A handshake deal, a one-page freelance contract, or a template pulled…
Terms of Service for Mobile Apps: What Every App Founder Needs Before You Hit Publish
Your app gets rejected from the App Store. Or worse, it goes live, gets traction, and then a user dispute strips you of your intellectual property because your terms never established who owns user-generated content. Both scenarios happen to founders who treated their terms of service as an afterthought. Apple…
NDA for Technology Companies: What Your Agreement Must Actually Cover
Sharing proprietary technology, source code, or product roadmaps with a potential partner, investor, or contractor without a proper non-disclosure agreement is one of the most common and costly mistakes technology founders make. By the time you realize the agreement you used was missing a critical clause, the damage is already…
What Every SaaS Subscription Agreement Must Include (And Why a Template Will Cost You)
Your SaaS company just signed its first enterprise customer. They are paying $2,400 a month, and the deal closed on a standard terms-of-service template you downloaded for free. Six months later, they dispute a billing cycle, claim your platform failed to meet an uptime promise that was never defined, and…