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Only had 1 cup of coffee so far, but I think I'm following your A, B, C story. What you did verbally, without documentation and contracts, is of little realist
by brk 17y ago
Only had 1 cup of coffee so far, but I think I'm following your A, B, C story.
What you did verbally, without documentation and contracts, is of little realistic value (other than to maybe help verify the fact that it looks like you're getting screwed).
From what you have written above, it looks like your company A can't do any business with C, without a penalty and a lot of legal scrabbling.
Having no idea what the realistic business value of working with C is, it's hard to give much advice.
You could lawyer up on this, and maybe make some progress. By law contracts are supposed to be mutually beneficial to both parties. There may be other laws and such in your region that prevent you from signing away certain rights, and override this contract. This is most likely an expensive pursuit, so you should be REALLY sure of the value of C.
If B is a corporation and not a person, what are the chances that they go out of business? (that would pretty much invalidate this as well).
My gut feeling is that this is probably one of those expensive lessons that you can't help but learn in real-time in the world, and you should probably do your best to push back, but not waste too much time/effort fighting it.
- mtrue 17y agowe have a contract. this new amendment has come out of nowhere. "B" is a joke, just some guys wanting to go around and saying they have a startup. there is an agreement between us "AB interactive"and between us as a group with "C" signed, but they are claiming a new agreement was made somewhere, i told them yesterday that would not hold. i am ready to walk away from this right now and have. "C" holds no value, even if it gets the funding, "B" holds no value and i am quitting, after a year of stress and seeing no lessons learned by my small team. They are actually mad at me for being VERY FIRM with "B" about this amendment and this amended agreement. i am in another city now dealing with a very sick family member with connective tissue disease, and they are pulling this crap. I wonder how many other startup companies have dwelt with this
- brk 17y agoALL startup companies and entrepreneurs have dealt with this at some time. From what you describe, it does not sound like it's worth pursuing or getting worked up over.
- pedalpete 17y agoI'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. 1)You say this 'amendment' comes out of nowhere. If it was an amendment and you haven't signed it, is it valid? 2)A shall not indirectly contact C. But you have already indirectly contacted C through B. As B was aware of this, I'd think this should be void. I would also think that you getting an @C e-mail address kinda shows that you have already been in contact with C, assuming C doesn't give e-mail addresses to people with no connection to C. 3)If C is a start-up with no value, and B is nothing, why are you even worrying about this? go out and get some business without B or C - I'm assuming your contract doesn't say that you have to work exclusively with B. If it does, than I wouldn't say B has nothing, as they have you!
- mtrue 17y ago"B" is an LLC
- mtrue 17y agoOH and just for fun, the "B" company 3 people one guy calls himself the "chairman"