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by justin 7y ago
I've noticed that all CEOs think their problems are unique, but when, in fact, there are five core problems that every company and founder encounters. I've written about how to overcome those problems in this blog. I hope it'
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Debugging Your Startup: What to Do When Things Aren’t Working(atrium.co)
1 points by justin 7y ago|2 comments
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by justin 7y ago
Actually housing could be a good investment and affordable. It just can’t be both in the same place. If we continued to make new cities with tons of housing and accepted that all the people who couldn’t afford housing should move there, we
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by justin 8y ago
Atrium | Full Stack Engineers, Integrations Engineer, Security Engineer, Engineering Manager | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full Time | React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Postgres https://www.atrium.co/careers#curren
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by justin 8y ago
Easy for Terence McKenna to say when he isn’t the one living the life of a nomad, or any other culture where those in it want to transition to a modern lifestyle. “The sorts of people who want to turn the entire planet into an international
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by justin 8y ago
Atrium LTS | San Francisco | DevOps Engineer, Full Stack Engineers | on-site, full time | https://www.atrium.co/careers#current-openings Atrium is the most data-driven platform providing legal services and applications to f
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by justin 8y ago
Starting a startup with the engagement of TouTiao is not easy.
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Andrew Chen on Startup Growth: Zero-To-One vs. One-To-N(atrium.co)
9 points by justin 8y ago|0 comments
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by justin 8y ago
It is definitely a risk. I think the first six months of the company we grew headcount probably too aggressively, and then the second six months of the company we did a lot of things to go back and fix some of the resulting cultural tension
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by justin 8y ago
Well, this is largely speculative, but I think Atrium can be a multi-tens of billions of dollars in value company, mostly based on the industry / market-need and the potential adjacent expansions. But obviously that depends a lot on ac
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by justin 8y ago
When we started Atrium, we thought the main tools would be web software applied to the legal business: CRM, project management, workflow tools, document generation. What we've learned is that there is a more interesting/difficult
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by justin 8y ago
Correct. We are targeted towards full service law firms and the clients that support them (i.e. big enterprises). No plans to do the same for individuals / SMBs (but I think that could be a good business opportunity for someone else!).
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by justin 8y ago
Thank you; have sent along to our events team.
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by justin 8y ago
Eventually - but no plans in the short term (outside of being able to do normal corporate transactional work companies require, which Atrium does for some bio startups). The goal is to eventually be able to expand service offerings to many
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by justin 8y ago
1. The goal is to equip lawyers to be more efficient! We want to give them super powers. 2-4. Yes, eventually. The legal market is many different workflows and we are both tackle some of them but also make a platform that can be extensible
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by justin 8y ago
In 1800, 83% of American jobs were in agriculture. Now it is 2%, not because people eat less per capita but because of increased technology. We have invented a lot of stuff for those people who would have been farmers to do: advertising, la
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by justin 8y ago
Everything is priced up front. We do this by estimating the amount of work it will take, and then we absorb any variance. Please email hello@atrium.co if you have specific questions! Thank you.
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by justin 8y ago
I believe that being able to work with Marc Andresseen, Andrew Chen and the A16Z team can significantly positively impact the trajectory of the company!
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by justin 8y ago
Here is a good explanation of Atrium's structure: https://abovethelaw.com/2017/09/competition-is-for-losers-th...
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by justin 8y ago
It is a bit of a long story, but maybe can be helpful to someone out there considering what to do with his or her life, so will write it out here: About 2 years ago I realized that as an investor (partner at YC) I had stopped learning. I fe
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by justin 8y ago
Main challenges aren't that unique, as anyone who has build a company at scale can probably attest to: need to create alignment around a medium term plan, and we need to execute faster (mostly by better prioritization and hiring the ri
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by justin 8y ago
To be clear, while journalists often write hyperbolic headlines about how Atrium is replacing lawyers with AI, what we are really doing is building tools that empower and enable lawyers (by automating the crank turning work and freeing lega
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by justin 8y ago
I'm very thrilled to announce this round to the world today. I've always looked up to Marc Andreessen and A16Z, and it very exciting to be able to work with them. Fundraising is not a destination, but just a means to get there, an
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by justin 8y ago
Yes, but I think that is in the medium term. In the short term we are laser focused on building things that help fast growth startup companies with corporate transactional work. But I think the general techniques for what we are doing can a
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by justin 8y ago
Absolutely 100% possible to learn company building skills. No one starts off as a natural; like anything there is 10,000 hours of practice involved. When I started on my journey 14 years ago I was shy, not good at selling, a terrible progra
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by justin 8y ago
Thank you! It hasn't been a linear journey - I have lots to say on creating a culture that joins multiple disciplines (where neither is dominant). I suspect companies like Compass (the real estate brokerage) and One Medical face simila
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by justin 8y ago
Thank you! We have many more events planned with great partners in the upcoming few months. Would love any feedback on types of events, speakers, or topics you'd be interested in. Our goal is to create a community that is helpful for f
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Atrium Raises $65M(forbes.com)
208 points by justin 8y ago|68 comments
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Rand Fishkin on Why Your Startup Should Consider Alternatives to VC Funding(atrium.co)
6 points by justin 8y ago|0 comments
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Founders and CEOs need to be proactive about diversity and inclusion(atrium.co)
2 points by justin 8y ago|3 comments

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