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by justin 8y ago
Generally meeting with an associate means an extra gatekeeper to convince so that’s why people suggest talking only with partners. If you get pushed to an associate from a partner though it’s hard to go back and demand the meeting with the
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by justin 8y ago
Hello HN! Justin (the author) here. We launched our new Atrium blog as a resource to the startup community. Happy to answer any questions about VC intros here.
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Atrium (YC W18) Is Hiring a Senior Product Designer(jobs.lever.co)
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by justin 8y ago
Atrium (YC W18) | San Francisco | https://www.atrium.co Atrium is a data-driven law firm designed to make access to corporate legal services transparent and price-predictable for everyone. We're doing this by building the f
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Atrium (YC W18 – Democratizing Legal Services) Is Hiring a Sr Product Designer(jobs.lever.co)
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Atrium is hiring – Help us build the future of law(atrium.co)
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Tell HN: Atrium Academy – free fundraising bootcamp March 24-25
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Atrium (cofounded by Justin Kan) Is Hiring for a Technical Recruiter(jobs.lever.co)
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Atrium LTS is Hiring a Mid/Sr ML/NLP Engineer in SF (Onsite, Full-Time)
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First Principles: Elon Musk on the power of thinking for yourself(medium.com)
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by justin 9y ago
I started a new company (Atrium) and that occupies all my spare mental energy. When I was investing I felt like I had to fill my day up with something, hence snapping all the time. I do occasionally post Q&As on Instagram stories now: @
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by justin 9y ago
Hard to say because so many things we did wrong were life/business lessons that we probably had to do wrong for me to be sitting here telling you I'd do them differently. Are you asking what I would do differently if I started a n
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by justin 9y ago
No. I think you can credibly claim after the fact that you wanted to understand what all the options were. Which is probably true for most founders.
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by justin 9y ago
Lawyers are one of those costs that can be a lot, or controlled, depending on how much negotiation happens. For billion dollar acquisitions usually you will pay $1-2mm in fees in my experience. For smaller acquisitions I've seen anywhe
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by justin 9y ago
Hey HN, Justin here (the post's original author). Didn't expect this to get posted again. I'm happy to answer any questions here about selling your company. I recently started a new company, Atrium, aiming to make legal servi
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by justin 9y ago
Interesting point. I could also write "The Founder's Guide to Selling Your Company When You Have Few Options" based on my experiences. It is a much more horrible process. Re: why sell? 970 million reasons. Biggest one was tha
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by justin 9y ago
Yup! Don't engage in the acquisition process unless you want to commit to it -- it will suck out all your time.
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by justin 9y ago
Life is what you negotiate :) Taking $970mm seemed like a good deal given the level of risk. So from an expected value perspective it was a fair trade. Twitch has grown much since then, but you can't have regrets when it comes to trade
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Atrium is hiring ML / NLP experts to `[[-1, 0], [0, -1]]` the legal industry
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Atrium (YC W18) is hiring for 10+ positions
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Spider silk startup Bolt Threads raises $123M Series D funding(techcrunch.com)
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by justin 9y ago
Excited to launch Atrium Academy to the startup community! If you guys have any questions I can answer them here. :)
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by justin 9y ago
Atrium is a data-driven law firm (LLP) and legal technology services (LTS) organization designed to make access to corporate legal services transparent and price-predictable for everyone. We're doing this by building the first structur
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Atrium Is hiring to disrupt the legal industry
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by justin 9y ago
Good question. Here is one I like that my friend Suhail used to raise $ for Mixpanel: https://mixpanel.com/blog/2014/12/18/open-sourcing-our-pitch...
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by justin 9y ago
Sure - if you want to raise from US investors you will probably need to be a DE-company (outside of exceptional circumstances). In any case I am happy to help, just enter your info into the form here: https://atriumllp.typeform.c
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by justin 9y ago
Hello HN: Justin here. Happy to answer any questions you guys have about raising money!
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Instagram stories mimic Polly (YC S17) with new polls(techcrunch.com)
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by justin 9y ago
Happy to talk through your options on a phone call if you'd like. You can email me: justin.kan@gmail.com Relevant experience: sold a couple companies, raised a lot of money
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by justin 9y ago
Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawye

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