Buying bespoke legal services too early or for the wrong tasks can be worse than value for money. A lawyer who is inexperienced in early stage startup issues can often take a path that will be difficult to unpick during later fundraising or not follow market ‘norms’ causing problems later.
Below are some companies that offer free/cheap ways to follow market best practice.
- FounderCatalyst has lots of free templates and resources and founder guide articles (competitor to SeedLegals)
- SeedLegals (a competitor) also has free founder legal guides alongside their paid legal services products for fundraising
- Rocketlawyer has lots of contract templates and you can pay a fixed cost for further customisations by a lawyer
- Lawdepot is a Rocketlawyer competitor with a similar proposition