How founder-friendly are 500 Startups KISS term sheets on the issue of non-competition?
Channel: Eisaiah Engel
Date: 18/10/2019

Zev Safran, CFA and Attorney, Safran Law PLLC, analyzed the 500 Startups KISS notes as part of of a 2019 research initiative to determine how founder-friendly “standard” term sheets used by venture capitalists and angel investors are. 

Read our research https://eisaiah.blog/founder-friendly-standard-comparison/ for side-by-side comparisons of Founder Friendly Standard® to Y Combinator Safe, 500 Startups KISS, NVCA Model Legal Docs, Gust Series Seed, Sam Altman ‘founder-friendly’ term sheet, and Y Combinator Series A term sheet. 

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