SALEHPOUR LEGAL 

Founders and business owners often sign agreements thinking about the excitement of the deal, while the legal debt is hidden in the fine print. Especially in AI and tech, a lack of structural integrity in your contracts has a real effect. What you don’t know can and will hurt your valuation during due diligence. Ms. Salehpour will be joining ScaleSpark's panel on May 20th on We're Not Big Enough to Get Hacked: AI, Data Privacy, & Why That Excuse Just Expired to peel back the

Speed is a vanity metric if your foundation is cracked. Many teams are so focused on the speed of their GTM that they ignore the structural integrity of their foundation. You don’t scale just by working harder. You scale by removing the friction of legal debt before it compounds. If you build and launch a non-compliant product, you haven’t built a ladder. You've built a ceiling. You have nowhere to go but down. Reflection: Are you building a product that is engineered to

Many founders and business owners treat legal as a fire extinguisher. They only call when something is burning and that’s a recipe for disaster. Case in point: I recently saw a startup forced to rebuild an entire platform because they didn’t have the proper data and intellectual property rights in their foundation. What would have been a few hours of investment in legal architecture upfront became a six-figure technical nightmare just as they were getting traction and prepa