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…
Warranty Disclaimers in SaaS Agreements: What Tech Companies Must Include and Why
A customer signs your SaaS subscription agreement and begins using your platform. Six months later, they claim the software failed to perform as you described in a sales call, that your API produced incorrect results that caused them to make a bad business decision, and that your platform should have…
Governing Law and Jurisdiction Clauses in SaaS Contracts: How to Choose and Why It Matters
Your SaaS company is based in California. Your enterprise customer is headquartered in New York. A dispute arises over a data breach, a missed SLA, or an intellectual property claim. Which state’s laws govern the outcome? Which courts hear the case? If your contract is silent on these questions, a…
Force Majeure Clauses in SaaS and Tech Contracts: What They Cover and When They Apply
A pandemic shuts down data centers. A major cloud provider suffers a region-wide outage. A cyberattack takes down a third-party payment processor your platform depends on. Your SaaS agreement says you guarantee 99.9% uptime — but none of those events were remotely within your control. Force majeure clauses exist to…
Software Escrow Agreement: What SaaS Companies and Their Customers Need to Know
Your SaaS vendor has been a reliable partner for three years. Then they get acquired, run out of funding, or simply shut down. Overnight, your team loses access to software that powers critical business operations — and you have no way to recover the platform, the source code, or even…
NDA for Tech Companies: What Founders Must Know Before Sharing Confidential Information
Founders share confidential information constantly: with co-founders during formation discussions, with developers building early prototypes, with potential investors during fundraising, with enterprise customers during contract negotiations, and with vendors integrating into their tech stack. In most of those conversations, nothing is signed. And nothing being signed means nothing is protected….
Arbitration Clauses in Terms of Service: Should Your Business Use One?
A class action lawsuit can turn a minor dispute into a nine-figure liability. When even a small product defect or billing error affects thousands of users simultaneously, plaintiffs’ attorneys can aggregate individual claims into a single action that costs millions to defend, regardless of outcome. For SaaS companies, app developers,…