Startup Operations Knowledge Base (RAG-Ready)

A 30-file knowledge base covering the operational, legal, financial, and people-management basics an early-stage startup founder runs into: business entity types, Delaware C-corp basics, founder vesting and the 83(b) election, cap table fundamentals, option pools, dilution, preferred vs. common stock, hiring and interview design, offer letters, contractor classification and agreements, core SaaS metrics (MRR/ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, gross margin, Rule of 40), SAFE notes, priced rounds, pro-rata rights, vendor selection and management, monthly financial close, employee onboarding/offboarding, basic account security, and when to bring in a lawyer or accountant. Each chunk (roughly 200-500 words) follows the same self-contained structure — title, one-sentence summary, what it is, why it matters, how it works, common mistakes, and a disclaimer where the topic carries real professional-advice risk — so it can be dropped into a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline as-is, with no re-chunking required. This is general operational information written in plain language for a non-specialist founder; it is not a substitute for legal, tax, financial, or security advice, and several individual chunks say so explicitly.