What Y Combinator Safe note terms might a founder later regret?
Channel: Eisaiah Engel
Date: 2019-10-18

Ryan Juliano, Vice President, Head of Platform, and Attorney at Howell Legal Inc, analyzed the Y Combinator Safe notes as part 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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