Terms of Use

Eligibility and business use

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into these Terms. The Services are intended for founders, company teams, and other business users—not consumers acting primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. You may use the Services only in compliance with applicable law and these Terms.

Accounts and security

You must provide accurate, current information and keep account and contact information reasonably up to date. You are responsible for activity under your account and for protecting your password, session, and private claim links. Do not share account credentials. Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access. We may require email verification, revoke sessions, or take reasonable steps to protect an account or the Services.

Early access and Founding Table

• An application, completed table, or cohort-review eligibility is not an offer, acceptance, promise of admission, funding, partnership, product access, or future service.
• Meno may accept, waitlist, decline, pause, or end applications and cohorts in its discretion. Program criteria, benefits, timing, capacity, and availability may change.
• A table owner is responsible for seat information and for sending each private claim link only to its intended recipient. Claim links have no automatic expiration today and may remain usable until claimed or replaced, so keep them private and ask us for help if a link reaches the wrong person.
• You may submit another person’s name only when you have a lawful reason and authority to do so. You must not impersonate someone, reserve a seat deceptively, or expose a claim link publicly.
• Completing a table makes it eligible for review; it does not guarantee acceptance or a public listing. Meno will publish a company’s cohort participation only after acceptance and authorization.
• Program materials and personalized stamps may be revised, withheld, or removed if they violate these Terms, third-party rights, or Meno brand requirements.

Your content and permissions

You keep ownership of information, names, briefs, feedback, and other material you submit (“Your Content”). You grant Meno a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, format, and use Your Content only as needed to operate, secure, review, and administer the Services and create materials you request. You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed for Your Content and that it does not violate law or another person’s rights.

If you voluntarily provide product ideas or feedback, Meno may use them without restriction or compensation, provided we do not identify you publicly without permission. Any separate approval to feature a company, quote, logo, or story will control that promotional use.

Personalized materials and Meno marks

If Meno provides a personalized Founding Table stamp or similar program artifact, you may display and share the delivered artifact for lawful company and program-related promotion while you participate in the program. Meno retains all rights in its names, logos, marks, templates, design system, and other underlying materials. You may not alter an artifact in a misleading way, imply endorsement or acceptance that has not occurred, register Meno branding, or use Meno marks outside the permission stated here without written approval.

Acceptable use

You may not:

• break the law, infringe rights, submit unlawful or deceptive material, or harass or harm another person;
• probe, scan, bypass, disable, or interfere with security, authentication, rate limits, access controls, or availability;
• access another account or table without authorization, misuse a claim link, scrape personal information, or use automated means except with our written permission;
• upload malware, attempt to discover source code except where law expressly permits, or use the Services to build or benchmark a competing service without permission;
• misrepresent affiliation with Meno, cohort status, table completion, or another person or company.

Communications

You agree that we may send transactional or program-related messages about your application, account, table, cohort review, security, and changes to these Terms or the Services. Providing a phone number does not consent to automated marketing calls or texts. You may opt out of promotional email, but we may still send non-promotional messages necessary to administer an account or request.

Our site and intellectual property

The Services and their software, design, text, graphics, and Meno branding are owned by Meno or its licensors and protected by law. Subject to these Terms, Meno gives you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services for their intended business purpose. No other rights are granted by implication. Third-party links and services are governed by their own terms, and Meno is not responsible for them.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. Meno may restrict, suspend, or terminate access, invalidate links, remove content, or end a program when reasonably necessary to protect the Services or others, address suspected misuse, comply with law, or enforce these Terms. We may discontinue any part of the Services. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute provisions—remain effective.

Disclaimers

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MENO AND ITS OPERATOR DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE. MENO DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, LINKS, MATERIALS, OR INFORMATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY APPLICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED. THESE DISCLAIMERS DO NOT LIMIT RIGHTS THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE WAIVED.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RYAN HIRSH, MENO, THEIR COLLABORATORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OPPORTUNITIES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. THEIR TOTAL COMBINED LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF US$100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID MENO FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITS DO NOT APPLY TO FRAUD, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY LIABILITY OR REMEDY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE LIMITED.

Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Meno and its operator from third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Services, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from Meno’s own unlawful conduct.

General terms

These Terms and the policies they reference are the entire agreement about the Services and replace prior discussions on that subject. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; Meno may assign them as part of a financing, reorganization, sale, or transfer of the Services. Nothing creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary, franchise, or exclusive relationship. Applicable law governs without overriding mandatory rights you may have where you live.

Changes and contact

We may update these Terms as the Services change. We will post the revised Terms with a new effective date and provide additional notice when required. Changes apply prospectively. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the Services. Questions may be sent to Ryan.thinker.dev@gmail.com. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Notice explain our information practices.