Venture Deals · glossary

Founders' agreement

The founders’ first contract, setting out their shares, roles and promises. Solaris’s made Elena Marsh chief executive, promised reverse vesting and assigned the founders’ intellectual property. Its vesting promise failed because the constitution did not carry it. Appendix 3 · Chapter 2

Explained in Chapter 2, Founding a Company, of Venture Deals.

How it comes up, in Chapter 2
Their promises to each other went into a two-page founders' agreement. The Investment Agreement now carries it as Appendix 3. Every later deal in this workbook changes those first two lines of the register.
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