ashishk

I'm a longtime YC fanboy, entrepreneur, with a sincere question.

I've read a lot about YC, have seen plenty interviews with PG/YC founders and often hear that PG provides nuggets of invaluable advice to YC startups at their earliest stages. Often times on the spot, with little preparation (just watch PG at TC50 for an example).

I'd love to access that advice through YC (if I were lucky enough to get in), but I'm also single founder and aware of my chances of getting in as one. (Despite that, my startup, a "JDate for South Asians", is pretty close to being ramen profitable, so I feel like I can make it alone - or at least survive until I can hire someone.)

So my question would be: can still I access PG?

If so, how? Would he be willing to chat for 5 min? Just wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation.

I'm incorporating my startup and would like to issue some common stock. The only agreements I'm finding though (YC's Series AA, Techstars' docs) are for the purchase of preferred stock.

Is there an "open source" common stock purchase agreement?

Edit: I think I found one here: http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/startup/forms_founders_stock.asp