StartUpProgram

Born from years of startup experience. Your choices today to figure out how to legally set up your company to be venture capital ready and get your cap table figured out are limited. You could do a web search and figure it out from 100 different sources on YouTube, CooleyGo Venture Hacks, other blogs and FAQs that may or may not be right for what you want to do or you could go to an expensive venture law firm. So we’ve built a platform that gives you the alternative to the traditional expensive attorney billable hours with a venture law firm, including us, and/or the frugal DIY method where you don’t know if you are doing it right or not. SUP Cap Tables, SUP Academy and StartupProgram.com provide multiple resources that you can use at a reasonable and fixed cost. Use SUP Academy to educate yourself on startup law and startup cap tables. It is a resource that can be used whenever you want it that will tell you everything that you would get in hours of attorney time with your expensive venture lawyer. Use SUP Cap Tables before Carta, so you can actually do a round of financing without having to pay $2,800 to model out how your SAFEs and Notes will convert into preferred equity. Use StartupProgram.com Professional Services so you don’t have to spend more time and money on other services that may leave you with fragmented results. After going through do-it-yourself platforms like Clerky or Gust, you’ll likely want to hire a lawyer to check your work and may find out that you’re missing integral pieces like a stock option plan. Using a big law firm like Cooley, you might spend $25K to get set up properly. Our programs are designed to give you 100% of the value of high-end legal services at 20% of the cost. Please try them out and tell us what you think. – Dan Offner, Founder