When bootstrapped startups absolutely must hire their first lawyer

you can kind of do quite a lot yourself in the very early stages. And, indeed, you know, money is tight. Let's be honest. Like, bootstrapped companies, they don't have the money to go, out and sort of engage lawyers. You know, resources are limited. So you can absolutely get through quite a lot with just sort of these kind of template documents. But I would say the point at which you probably do need to be speaking to a lawyer is either when you are about to negotiate your first funding round where there where any of the terms of the funding round are anything more complex than just money in in exchange for ordinary shares with no other frills.