You Need a Contract!: From Your First Customer to Your First Financing and all the Contracts in Between

Please join Alicia Dorner and Beth Lamontagne at the Annual Startup Boston Week at Suffolk University for an opportunity to learn from industry experts about the importance of contracts.

Moving fast and breaking things is great for innovation – not so great for contracting. This program will help you identify the critical contracts and documentation you need for formation, collaboration, service providers, customers, and beyond. Do it right from the outset and watch the efficiencies scale with your operations!

• Identify your objectives and workstreams and the contracts needed to support those efforts
• Understand formation documents and partnership/co-founder agreements
• Learn about NDAs and employee proprietary information assignment agreements
• Manage independent contractor/service provider agreements
• Create, negotiate, and enforce customer agreements
• Discover the essentials of IP licensing

This comprehensive approach will offer you valuable insights as well as equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to demonstrate sophistication to investors and business stakeholders. Attend this session and position yourself to establish key relationships and revenue streams early on and succeed in your first financing round.

This session is a part of Startup Boston Week 2025 and is perfect for early-stage founders, operators handling contracts, and anyone preparing for their first fundraise or major customer deal.