Our Mission
Our mission is simple: substantially reduce the costs of creating legal documents for growing companies. Young companies often spend 10-15% of their early growth capital on legal fees. By fixing some of the inefficiencies in the current system, this financial burden can reduced, without any reduction in quality of legal services and without requiring a change to the important relationship between companies and their attorneys.
For Entrepreneurs
We believe that entrepreneurs should be focused on growing their businesses. Here is what we offer:
- Decrease legal startup costs dramatically
- Free up capital to invest in growing your business
- Leverage a full range of legal document services from incorporation to fundraising to minute taking
- Get access to your own hosted online legal document repository
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For Lawyers
We understand that one of your primary goals is to become the trusted advisor of the next generation of great companies. We also understand that low-quality online legal services providers are making it more difficult to win new customers and ensure customers are getting great legal service. We believe that white-labeling our Internet technology for your firm will allow you to profitably serve a far broader range of customers while retaining relationships with customers. Here is what we offer:
- A complete and turnkey online offering
- Document creation software that:
- Allows you to use our standard templates or upload your own
- Increases the speed of document creation, revision and delivery
- Decreases costs
- Improves quality assurance
- Allows for online data collection from customers
- Creates a permanent document repository that you can share with customers
- Give customers access to a growing library of educational content
- All of this while maintaining or improving profitability
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For Investors
Having done hundreds of deals, you understand the importance of high quality legal documents but you should also benefit from the standard and reusability of your legal documents. We have developed a system that will save you time and money. Here is what we can do for you:
- Cut costs by up to 50% while still ensuring lawyer-grade documents
- Use any of the "open source" standard funding documents or upload your own
- Ability to work with your lawyer or law firm
- Access complete library of online educational content about legal documents, terms, conditions, etc.
- Access your own online legal document repository that Early Stage maintains for you
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Our Process
How do we do save you so much time, energy and money? We pride ourselves on the most streamlined document creation process in the world. We use proprietary software to build standard documents based on your feedback. Since most early-stage legal decisions have a large degree of standardization, especially for startups, much of the document creation process can be executed using smart software. This allows you to use your time with your attorney to negotiate and review the terms of your specific deal, instead of recreating the wheel.