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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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Lawyers on the platform love the experience. We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid. That''s why people turn to Legalzoom and Docstoc, and use those free documents because they just don''t want to deal with lawyers. It''s more of a silent auction.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. There is Adconian, Intelligent Beauty, LegalZoom, Burstly, ShoeDazzle and so many more I can barely name them all. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.