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by jakestein 3y ago
That's a good point, and the magnitude of the impact of speeding up sales cycles can be really surprising if you haven't done the math. We wrote a blog post about this last year with a model in Google Sheets that you can customize
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by jakestein 3y ago
That's totally fair, and it might be partially a function of price point. If, say we can help our customers close a bunch of deals at $20k each, that's very different than a company who has an average price point of $1k each. You&
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by jakestein 3y ago
I appreciate that, and you're right that overcoming the cold start problem is the key to establishing a standard. We've tried to learn what we can from how YC published the SAFE, as well as other standard contracts like the NVCA m
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by jakestein 3y ago
I would love to have you as a customer, but I'd have to do more research on what it would take to import the workflows and repository. If you're open to talking about this, my email is jake [at] commonpaper.com
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by jakestein 3y ago
We embed Dropbox sign in our product in all of our tiers. We can also integrate with company's Docusign or Adobe sign accounts, but it's not part of the default offering
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by jakestein 3y ago
I don't have experience with contracts (or the lack thereof) in Hollywood, and that's interesting to hear. One guess is that it might be a relatively small community where the same people and companies do business with each other
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by jakestein 3y ago
If you send us a note at support@commonpaper.com, we'd be happy to make an intro to one of the attorneys on the committee. They can potentially help with configuring the standards for your business and/or drafting something custom
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by jakestein 3y ago
Your intuition is right, and in our view tech only solves part of the problem. We believe that the actual content of the contracts needs to get standardized, in addition to deploying tech against the contract problem When lots of organizati
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by jakestein 3y ago
Oracle and companies like it are definitely the hardest to get on board. That being said, our users have already closed deals with Fortune 500 companies using the standard contracts, and they see a big decrease in the percentage of deals th
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by jakestein 3y ago
You're correct that we make money by charging for our software. It's free until you use it to close deals with more than 5 customers, and free forever if you're just using it for NDAs. Full details on pricing here: https:&#x
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by jakestein 3y ago
Thanks for these questions, taking each in turn: > The process for creating and revising the contracts is modeled after an open-source software project Which Open Source Project? Could you link it please? We didn't model it after a
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by jakestein 3y ago
Just to clarify, we do expect people to negotiate the contracts, and most of our users negotiate on at least some portion of their deals. The difference is that the agreements are split up into cover pages, which are designed to be edited&#
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by jakestein 3y ago
That's right, and the other thing I forgot to mention is that we're seeing evidence that it becomes easier for company A as well. If both sides are arguing for their own custom template, then it's basically an arm wrestling m
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by jakestein 3y ago
We do hope to support more countries in the future. Right now the committee of attorneys that make are agreements are largely based in the US, and the agreements are made with US law in mind. I expect that the agreements will just work for
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by jakestein 3y ago
Culture is definitely part of the problem, and I completely agree that tech alone can't solve it. I also think it's critical to change the incentives that lawyers are responding to. I've spoken with lots of lawyers in procure
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by jakestein 3y ago
Thanks, we're working on it :)
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by jakestein 3y ago
Shoot, thanks for flagging the website. I think we have it working now but trying to make sure it stays up. For the Oracle example, big, old-school companies like this are definitely the hardest to get onboard. However, there are examples o
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by jakestein 3y ago
I really appreciate the kind words, and I totally agree that there will edge cases that the standards don't yet support. Our goal is to gather feedback on things like that (and places where the contracts can be simpler / easier to
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Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts
431 points by jakestein 3y ago|167 comments
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The waning days of DEI's dominance(world.hey.com)
4 points by jakestein 4y ago|0 comments
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by jakestein 4y ago
Hi HN, I wrote this post, happy to answer questions and any feedback is appreciated.
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How to Work with Design Partners(commonpaper.com)
13 points by jakestein 4y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Common Paper
10 points by jakestein 5y ago|1 comments
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Contracts Should Be APIs(commonpaper.com)
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Japanese addressing system(en.wikipedia.org)
80 points by jakestein 7y ago|64 comments
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by jakestein 8y ago
I think you're referring to Venture for America, which despite the name is not a venture capital firm. https://ventureforamerica.org
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The Stitch 30: Fastest-growing cloud applications(stitchdata.com)
9 points by jakestein 8y ago|0 comments
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The vision behind Talend's acquisition of Stitch(stitchdata.com)
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AI-powered knowledge-sharing platform Guru raises $25M Series B(techcrunch.com)
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by jakestein 8y ago
Our DB2 integration is SELECT replication. Our MySQL, Posgtgres, and Oracle integrations are log base. MySQL and Postgres actually have the option of either logs or SELECT. You're totally right about all of the flavors DB2. Our suppor

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