Hopefully everyone knows this here, but if you paid for an introduction it's a negative signal: just cold email.
That being said, I'll make intros for only $6,500 and no warrants.
Hear me out - we are introducing a PaaS (Pitch as a Service) platform so that founders only pay for what VC is interested in listening.
It's just $0.003/word, allowing you to optimize your introduction. It's also lazily evaluated: if someone gets bored with it, you get cut off from your introduction and just pay for what you said up to that point.
We are offering discounts for the words "AI", "LLM", and "web3". Those are half the price.
Second lowest because sustainable value extraction is important to me.
This is the primary basis that California used to disqualify non-executive non-competes (before they were outright legislated out).
The legal basis for voiding contracts is "unconscionability".
There was no equitable value, which directly led into economic restraint and servitude arguments.
> The legal basis for voiding contracts is "unconscionability".
Not sure what you're referring to here, but you should review "balance of contract" and "fair and equitable terms" in US and California contract law.
In addition, if they have a strong case and a law firm believes they could gain more than their fees, they'll often still take the case.
In other words: Do not let the idea of vague "legal fees" scare you off from pursuing a genuine grievance. At least consult with a few law firms.
I understand some entrepreneurs are very out of the loop / far from the VC ecosystem, but even just Googling about it you will find lots of clear advice to never pay for introductions or accelerators.
We can sit here and say we don't understand how people fall for Nigerian princes, attorneys for the estate of long lost cousins, and all that sort of thing, but clearly it works on some people vulnerable and wishful enough to believe it.