Absolutely! Like you said if you have 5 years of R & D into it, this is a completely different matter. I know it sounds silly, but I love contracts. They give

Absolutely! Like you said if you have 5 years of R & D into it, this is a completely different matter. I know it sounds silly, but I love contracts. They give a clear line of expectations and allow you to make necessary calculations. They are an integral co-planning process. Fact of life is people snipe. We treat our future self as a stranger and we feel differently about agreement as they develop. People like asymmetric power in a negotiation and will go about acquiring it with an NDA or by not signing one when it is merited.