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• Site Policies
• Customer Agreements
• Employee Agreements
• Consulting Agreements
• Advisor Agreements
• Investor Agreements
• Founder Agreements
• Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Libraries

Terms of service, privacy policy, and more

• GitHub 🎉
• Basecamp 🎉
• Automattic 🎉
• Creative Commons
• Medium
• Common Paper

Sales agreements

• Y Combinator
• Common Paper - Cloud Service Agreement
• Common Paper - Professional Services Agreement

There are also agreements in many of thesite policy resources.

Employee IP agreements

• GitHub - Balanced Employee IP Agreement 🎉
• Rackspace - Model IP and Open Source Contribution Policy
• Orrick
• Cooley (California employees)

Employee offer letters

• Orrick
• Cooley (California employees)

• Orrick
• Cooley

• Founder Institute - Founder / Advisor Standard Template (FAST)
• Cooley

Seed

• Y Combinator - Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE)
• Series Seed (andCooley Fork)
• Bloomberg Beta

Series A and later

• Y Combinator - Series A Term Sheet
• NVCA - Model Legal Documents

• UPenn

Mutual

• Cooley
• Common Paper

One-way

• Five Minute Law 🎉
• Cooley

Resources with a large range of documents.

• Orrick - Startup Forms Library
• Cooley - Document Generators
• UPenn - ELC Startup Kit
• Common Paper