Lawyers will generally write into contracts with customers that the written agreement forms the entire agreement, and that the customer will not be relying on anything other than the text of the agreement in making their purchasing decision.
This isn't water-tight, but the reality is that verbally telling people you have more employees or offices than you actually have, within reason, are really not going to get anyone into trouble.
Nearly all startups pretend they're more established than they are.
Nearly all startups pretend they have more customers in the process of signing up than they do.
I hate to see everyone acting like these kind of exaggerations are the same as dishonesty or fraud.
People that make these kind of exaggerations can definitely be trustworthy.
There is a very big difference between exagerrating the position of a startup to break out of a catch-22 and being a liar and untrustworthy.
I'm sure a lot of people feel the same as I do - it's just that they'll not comment with their established usernames, and advisably so because that'd be a stupid thing to say on record.
This isn't water-tight, but the reality is that verbally telling people you have more employees or offices than you actually have, within reason, are really not going to get anyone into trouble.
Nearly all startups pretend they're more established than they are.
Nearly all startups pretend they have more customers in the process of signing up than they do.
I hate to see everyone acting like these kind of exaggerations are the same as dishonesty or fraud.
People that make these kind of exaggerations can definitely be trustworthy.
There is a very big difference between exagerrating the position of a startup to break out of a catch-22 and being a liar and untrustworthy.
I'm sure a lot of people feel the same as I do - it's just that they'll not comment with their established usernames, and advisably so because that'd be a stupid thing to say on record.