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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

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Brian Liu , the co-founder and CEO of a new startup, BizCounsel , was the co-founder of LegalZoom, and thinks there can be a new way that every business owner can get access to dedicated business attorneys for legal work. Brian Liu: We're launching a new business, BizCounsel, which looks a lot like the big brother for LegalZoom.

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MyTime Snags Funding For Appointment Service

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MyTime , which operates an online service focused on online deals for appointment-focused businesses like chiropractors, personal trainers, housekeeping, and more, has raised a round of funding to expand its service beyond Los Angeles. GRP's Mark Suster said the round was worth $3M, with GRP putting up most of the funds.

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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. I first met Ethan in 2005. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Interview with Carey Ransom, RealPractice

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We thought it would be worth hearing about where the firm is today, as well as Carey's strategy to create something similar to LegalZoom, but for attorneys. I see us compared with a LegalZoom, which has done phenomenally well. Folks like LegalZoom have taken commoditized documents, for things which don't necessary need an attorney.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. You put your project up, and shortly thereafter, you get price quotes from lawyers. How has the attorney response been to your service? We''re a free service for clients, and don''t charge them. It''s more of a silent auction.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. So don’t raise money at a cheap price, but don’t get too far ahead of yourself either. Pricing high also takes exit options off the table. But if you do this early (pre VC) then the price points are pretty low. This is wrong.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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So much so that when a friend of my family was looking for an internship at a local Boston company I contacted my friend Jeff Bussgang at Flybridge who hooked him up with interviews and he stayed in Boston rather than working in financial services in NYC for the summer. There’s a much higher probability this kid will stay in Boston now.

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