These terms govern your use of venturelegalhub.com, operated by Venture Legal Hub LLC ("Venture Legal Hub," "we," "us"). By reading the site, using the contact form, or purchasing a premium guide, you agree to them. If you do not agree, the remedy is to stop using the site — no notice, no penalty, no hard feelings. We have written these terms the way we write everything else here: plainly, in complete sentences, with the important parts near the top. They are effective as of the date posted at the bottom of this page.
What This Site Is — and What It Is Not
Venture Legal Hub is an informational resource for startup founders. We publish long-form guides on the legal mechanics of building a company — incorporation, intellectual property assignment, SAFE agreements, term sheets, and due diligence — and we sell premium digital guides that go deeper on the same material. Everything on this site, free or paid, is general educational content written for a broad audience of founders.
What this site is not: a law firm. Venture Legal Hub LLC does not practice law, does not employ anyone to practice law for you, does not review your documents, does not negotiate on your behalf, and does not appear anywhere as your counsel. Nothing on this site is a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney who has read your actual documents and asked you the uncomfortable follow-up questions. The disclaimer at the bottom of every page says this in one sentence; these terms say it at length because it is the most important term we have.
No Attorney-Client Relationship
Using this site — reading it, relying on it, emailing us through the contact form, buying a guide — does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Venture Legal Hub LLC, its editors, or anyone associated with it. No such relationship can arise without a signed engagement agreement, and we do not offer those, ever, to anyone, at any price.
This matters for a practical reason beyond the legal formalities: communications with us are not protected by attorney-client privilege. If you email the contact form a detailed description of your co-founder dispute or your cap table problem, that email is an ordinary business communication, not a privileged one. We will treat it with discretion as a matter of policy — see our privacy policy — but you should not send us anything you would only tell a lawyer under privilege, because we are not your lawyer and cannot make it privileged after the fact.
This Is Not Legal Advice
Legal advice is the application of law to a specific person's specific facts. Nothing on this site does that. When we write that a 1x non-participating liquidation preference is market standard, or that founders should file 83(b) elections within thirty days, we are describing general patterns in U.S. startup practice — not telling you what your term sheet says, what your tax position requires, or what you should sign tomorrow. Laws change, states differ, and two deals that look identical on the first page can diverge completely by the definitions section. Your facts deserve their own analysis by a professional licensed in your jurisdiction.
If you act on something you read here without that analysis, you do so at your own risk. We think our guides are unusually careful, and we stand behind their accuracy as general education. We do not stand behind them as a plan for your specific company, because no general document can be that.
No Warranties
The site and everything on it — the free guides, the premium guides, the charts, the checklists — are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the content is complete, current, or error-free; that the site will be available at any particular time; or that any guide will produce any particular outcome for your company, your fundraise, or your tax bill.
We work hard to keep the material accurate and dated — our research method is described on the resources and method page, and our corrections log is public — but accuracy as a goal is not accuracy as a guarantee, and the difference is exactly what this section is about.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Venture Legal Hub LLC, its members, managers, employees, and contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost equity value, lost deals, failed financings, or adverse tax outcomes — arising out of your use of, or inability to use, this site or anything you read or bought here. This applies whether the claim is framed in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, and even if we have been told such damages were possible.
Where liability cannot be excluded entirely, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising from the site is capped at the greater of one hundred U.S. dollars or the total amount you actually paid us for premium guides in the twelve months before the claim arose. For most visitors, who pay nothing and are owed nothing, that means our liability is limited to the maximum extent the law allows. Some jurisdictions do not permit certain limitations; in those places, these limits apply to the greatest extent permitted.
Who Owns the Content
All content on this site — the text of the guides, the structure of the explanations, the charts, the premium downloads, and the design — is owned by Venture Legal Hub LLC and protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. We worked on it for years, and we ask you to respect that work.
You may read the site, print pages for your own reference, and quote brief excerpts with clear attribution and a link back to venturelegalhub.com. You may not republish full articles, scrape the site wholesale, repackage our guides as your own material, feed our content into a product that competes with it, or remove attribution from anything you quote. Linking to our pages is not merely permitted but appreciated — no permission needed, no linking policy to sign.
Premium Guides: License Terms
When you buy a premium guide, you receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to download the file, keep it, and use it for your own purposes — including internal use within your own company by its founders and employees. The license does not include the right to resell the guide, post it publicly, distribute copies outside your company, or strip the attribution. Buying a guide is buying a reading license, not buying the copyright.
Guide purchases are covered by our refund policy, which is deliberately generous: a full refund within thirty days of purchase, no questions asked. If a refund is issued, the license ends and we ask you to delete the files; the details and the honor-system mechanics are on that page.
Acceptable Use
Use the site like a reasonable person. Do not attempt to disrupt it, probe its hosting for vulnerabilities, scrape it at a volume that degrades service for others, misrepresent our content as your own, or use the contact form to send spam, threats, or solicitations. We reserve the right to block access to anyone abusing the site — a remedy we expect never to need, and mention here so that the expectation is mutual.
References to Laws, Forms, and Outside Sources
Our guides discuss statutes, filing fees, standard document forms, and market practices as we understand them at the time of writing. Filing fees change; statutes are amended; market standards drift. Where we mention a specific figure — a Delaware filing fee, a thirty-day deadline — treat it as a strong starting point for verification, not as a verified-at-this-instant fact. Any references to outside sources are for context; we are not responsible for the content of sites we do not operate.
Governing Law and Disputes
These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of this site, are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules that would apply another jurisdiction's law. You agree that the exclusive venue for any such dispute is the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Before filing anything anywhere, we ask that you email us first — most disagreements with a small research company are cheaper to resolve in a paragraph than in a pleading.
Changes, Severability, and the Whole Agreement
We may update these terms from time to time; the current version always lives at this address, and material changes will be flagged at the top of the page. Continuing to use the site after an update means you accept the revised terms. If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in force, and the unenforceable provision is modified only as much as necessary to make it enforceable. These terms, together with the privacy policy and the refund policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the site.
Questions
Questions about these terms go to research@venturelegalhub.com, or by mail to Venture Legal Hub LLC, 101 Hudson Street Suite 2100, Jersey City, NJ 07302. Full company details are on the business information page.