I am part of an LLC and have heard a lot about operating agreements and founders' agreements. What are the differences between the two for an LLC?
I am looking for good/cheap legal advice for a web application my friend is building. We will need to write a Term Of Service. Do we really need a lawyer for that? Are there templates out...
I am on the verge of being ready to launch a new web application. The application charges a small monthly fee to its users. It is hosted on servers overseas. However, currently, there is no legal...
If you hire somebody to develop a product for you, and they take the credit and the idea and make a success out of it, is it possible to have them sign a document stating that if they steal the...
I'm planning on setting up a new business in the UK and gather I need a "Memorandum of Association". How important is this for a one-man company? Unbelievably, googling it does not yield any...
I want to sign a freelancer on a legal document, what is the best way to do this? The document is something like ten pages with the last page containing the place to put the signature. Is it good...
I've just registered my new startup with the government so now the company is officially incorporated! (yippee!) I would now like to make a loan of about $5,000 to the company with my personal...
I've started a website that has gained significant popularity. While we don't make any money yet I now require the help of another person. The individual that I have brought on lives in Sweden. I...
Are NDAs a safe thing to do when hiring out of the country? I'm hiring freelancers to do some mobile programming work, and they reside in France. They have, very kindly, signed the NDA I provided...
This sounds ultra fishy, but it really is just for keeping a certain person from determining who is behind a company. I want to start a business with a business name, in any state, and not have my...
I'd like to run a prize based promotion in the USA -- and looking for suggestions on legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required to execute one. Yes, I know there are lots of...
I recently started http://www.weekendhacker.net in which one of the ideas is to allow designers and developers to barter deals between them. Currently I am referring them to http://foundrs.com/...
I am looking for good sample documents/document templates, for the following requirements- (1) Employment Contracts (for employees who will work from home using their own PCs, with software...
I run a software startup based out of India. To write a module of my application I am talking to a developer. To make things formal I wanted to sign an agreement. The agreement should talk about...
I would like them to rewrite and create my own through the samples that I will copy from my competitor's website.
Can some one help me understand about what is "Product/IP" Start up. What is that required for company to become a IP Startup? I mean officially or recordically what all we need to do to get to...
Suppose subcontractor A makes software for company B. Both are in the US. Company B would like to retain the rights to any code created for the project and all data will reside on databases...
We are a software company with an international partner in EU. They want to be exclusive as a distributor what should be the most important points we need in our agreement? Our product is not in a...
I'd like to consult an expert here and there with a project I am developing. I've found plenty of templates for NDA agreements online and I've already modified one to suit my needs. Is there...
I am licensing my software to my software distributor reseller. My reseller wants to use my license agreement that should be signed between us and Licensee. Does that make sense? If it does then...