Series AA Documents Back Online(ycombinator.com)

130 pointsby pg18 tahun yang lalu23 comments

http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html?

25 comments

pg18 tahun yang lalu

Sorry for the delay. WSGR wanted to add some disclaimers to the documents, and then we ourselves were busy with Demo Day(s).

There's now a termsheet as well, which some people had asked for.

dawie18 tahun yang lalu

Thanks! Are you thinking of releasing the Delaware Incorporation documents that you give each company too? I think it will be a great resource.

froo18 tahun yang lalu

Thankyou very much good sir!

prakash18 tahun yang lalu

Can you also provide one easy zip file to download?

prakash18 tahun yang lalu

Sigh! To whoever down voted,

1. Total file size uncompressed is 428 kB, compressed is roughly 100 kB i.e. reduced bandwidth from origin & faster downloads

2. The webserver has to process 1 request instead of 6

3. Having all the word files in one zip file is easier to download

ivankirigin18 tahun yang lalu

I'm not sure it's legal to put an exclamation point after "sigh"

prakash18 tahun yang lalu

you have no idea the kind of good karma (real, not HN :-)) that is going to come YC's way thanks to this!

Thanks very much!

wheels18 tahun yang lalu

Just submitted a comment in the Venture Hacks feedback suggesting an article or series of articles breaking these down into layman's terms.

It's nice to have the documents; it'd be even nicer to have a decent handle on the implications of their use.

prakash18 tahun yang lalu

Well said. For the term sheet check out Brad Feld's term sheet series: http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/term_sheet/

yokumtaku18 tahun yang lalu

I'll put up a post about these documents on http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com in the near future.

prakash18 tahun yang lalu

That's nice, thanks!

chollida118 tahun yang lalu

I didn't see a license that these were released under.

It could be useful to put these onto a wiki and allow people to mark them up with comments about any changes they made to them through the course of their own use.

pelle18 tahun yang lalu

What kind of license are they released under?

pg18 tahun yang lalu

None in particular. I don't think they need to be. They're not the sort of thing the user publishes, like an image; nor is there any plan (for now at least) to incorporate changes contributed by other people, as one would with software.

LogicHoleFlaw18 tahun yang lalu

A Creative Commons license might be a useful thing to add. With no license specified a potential user could run into picky copyright law hangups down the line.

gqwu18 tahun yang lalu

Does a new ycomb company require vesting for all the cofounders? If so is it the typical (4 year vesting, 1 year cliff etc) terms?

dcurtis18 tahun yang lalu

It's not a requirement. But they strongly suggest the typical 4 year vesting with 1 year cliff. (Actually, "strongly" might be an understatement.)

plusbryan18 tahun yang lalu

as of summer 2006, yes. standard 4/1 yr

pg18 tahun yang lalu

We don't actually require it, but we encourage it, so that there's a predefined way to handle cofounders leaving.

Alex391718 tahun yang lalu

Does WSGR work with many YC startups? I had heard that they've lost interest in most early stage web stuff, but I was wondering if they were more likely to work with YC companies since they clearly work with YC itself.

yokumtaku18 tahun yang lalu

WSGR is very interested in working with all startups, including early stage web startups. WSGR represents many YC-backed companies.

mattmaroon18 tahun yang lalu

Very many.

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goodkarma18 tahun yang lalu

Thanks!