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You let the boss pretend you`re fine and that you`re great. How you like it when this marketing looks like documents, right? And this is where the demolition usually begins. For example, if you like something, a document called a safe, but then you start checking it, and it`s not that secure. I mean, for example, as with some lawyers, investors tend to design convertible bonds, and they give them the name, let`s say, you know, because it sounds chic and tradable. But they are very different from the Y Combinator, like when I prepared this, because I only did my job for example, I did this and I came across a document that is actually called simpler to know the future equity of the company. But it had nothing to do with Y Combinator. Things like, these certainly massive Estonian companies had a maturity date and say they`re not debt instruments, so the big ones don`t happen until today. So it`s one thing for us, as international lawyers, that when we search Law Insiders, we can find documents called Say It or Like Tableau. That`s something, but that`s not what they`re saying. But fortunately, there are also a lot of good documents, and there are states that are really websites and not just marketing words for you, your family, friends, and fundraising at an early stage. This is the case. I shouldn`t say falls.

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