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* Any agreements, understanding, instruments, contracts or proposed transactions to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound which involve obligations of, or payments to, the Company in excess of $25,000.

* Any licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the Company’s or others’ patent, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights, proprietary information or technology, including employee confidentiality and proprietary information agreements.

* Any standard forms of agreements used by the Company.

* Any confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

* Any consulting contracts.

Consultants: this is one reason why it's often easier to get in the habit of working off your client's paper than trying to get them to accept your own. A lot of startups might not care, and will accept your MSA. But for some of them, accepting a new MSA creates a huge amount of hassle down the road.




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