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by nwenzel 9y ago
SimpleLegal | Python/Django | Mountain View https://www.simplelegal.com/careers?gh_jid=678936 We're 35-person team building software to run corporate legal departments. We like to say that Sales has Salesforce. Ma
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by nwenzel 9y ago
I'm a founder at a high-growth startup in Mountain View. I always tell potential hires, "options are worth nothing until they're worth something. And, they may never be worth anything." I think that's the opposite o
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by nwenzel 9y ago
Serious question even though as I read and reread it, I am aware it does sound like snark... How is this a sustainable product/company? (AKA How do you make money?) Is love to dig in to what looks like an awesome product. But to justif
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SimpleLegal Is Hiring – Devs, Customer Success, and Implementation Mgr
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by nwenzel 10y ago
We're in Mountain View and we're hiring [0]. I've certainly noticed commercial real estate going from completely nuts to merely really expensive. Anecdotal sure. But eventually all the anecdotal points add up to a trend. [0]
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by nwenzel 10y ago
Front + Intercom which gives us an email-based help desk, in-app chat and messaging, and a self-service FAQ help desk.
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by nwenzel 10y ago
"The contracting companies pay likely about as much but take some 20% of their salary)." Having worked as a contractor, I've seen that number typically between 33% and 50%. Staff Augmentation is a horrible, horrible business.
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by nwenzel 10y ago
Mountain View, CA | Full Time | Onsite I'm the CEO and co-founder of SimpleLegal. We're enterprise SaaS for the Legal Department from the YC13 batch. Sales has Salesforce. Marketing Has Hubspot/Marketo. Customer Success has G
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by nwenzel 10y ago
CaseText ( https://CaseText.com ) is pretty close to Google for law. They have a new tool that is aimed at lawyers doing legal research where they suggest other relevant cases based on the cases you're already citing. Disclai
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by nwenzel 10y ago
XM and Sirius got together. Not sure if it's working out or not but they're still an operating business which is better than where they were headed pre-merger.
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by nwenzel 10y ago
If you're using a Linux VM, is there a difference between using a Mac vs Windows?
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by nwenzel 10y ago
I worked at marchFirst back in the day. Even had the chance to meet Bob Bernard. That experience shaped how I run the company I co-founded 3 years ago. M1's number one problem was a culture of spending money without any thought of a re
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by nwenzel 10y ago
SimpleLegal | Mountain View, CA | Onsite | Technical Ops Analyst SimpleLegal is the dashboard for in-house legal departments. Salesforce -> Sales Ops. SimpleLegal -> Legal Ops. We're looking for the right person to fill a varied
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by nwenzel 10y ago
Honest question: Do any class or all classes of people (citizens, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, refugees, criminals, teachers, disabled, adults, children, or any other type of people) have a right to a home or some other minimum lev
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by nwenzel 10y ago
SimpleLegal | Mountain View, CA | full-time | onsite SimpleLegal ( https://www.simplelegal.com ) is enterprise SaaS for in-house legal departments. We keep legal vendors, matters, and expenses organized. We're Salesforce for
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by nwenzel 10y ago
When companies want self-service BI, what they really want is, zero-code-required tools that a BI developer/analyst can use to build on-demand standard reports for business users with predefined click-through paths. And yes, software m
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by nwenzel 10y ago
Given that a full repeal may be difficult politically, I wonder if Prop 13 could be limited to owner-occupied houses. Seems like that would hold true to its original purpose of not taxing someone out of their home, make investment in proper
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by nwenzel 10y ago
Serious question given that "data" is sometimes released from the govt in tabular format in PDF: How can you (or we) ensure your FOIA request for code isn't responded to with a PDF of code?
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by nwenzel 10y ago
With dilution being .85/30, does it matter? If you could raise $850M with ~3% dilution, who would turn it down? Also, you have to figure some of that money is going to early employees and investors who are looking to take a little off
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Could you imagine an API-only version of PACER where developers were free to build search, mobile, other front-ends on of it? Sure, that's basically a high school project using a MongoDB or CouchDB back-end. But legal tech is horribly
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by nwenzel 11y ago
rms_returns - are you interested in discussing a project I'd like to have a freelancer work on? You can reach me at http://www.simplelegal.com and my HN username.
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Yes. If you've ever tried to use a broker for benefits or another system for onboarding or another system for payroll... Night and day difference. Much easier to use. Much better to have it all in one place. Love the Zenefits + Zenpayr
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by nwenzel 11y ago
> This means that a lot of angels are getting forced out of a lot of deals they might have been in before, or have to enter a deal through a syndicate and take a 20-30% haircut on the carry. Or maybe the growth of these super-angel fund
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by nwenzel 11y ago
At least remove the Google part. Maybe just "How we grew to 4M users" since they didn't bootstrap. They got traction and raised money. Also, their software is actually really helpful at thinking through ideas. I don't me
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by nwenzel 11y ago
+1 If anyone is looking for one weird trick to succeed in a startup, get rid of your TV. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't have easy time waster options readily available.
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by nwenzel 11y ago
SimpleLegal -- Mountain View, CA 1) SDR - Sales Development Rep -- $60k OTE 2) Marketing / Demand Gen -- $80k + bonus About SimpleLegal: SimpleLegal is enterprise SaaS for in-house legal departments. We are a YC-backed startup with fou
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Ha! Funny that you should mention it. I used to run a consulting firm. We got up to 12 people. Of those employees, 2 got married (not to each other), 2 bought a new house (1 bought their first house), 2 moved in from a different state, 6 ki
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by nwenzel 11y ago
It's hard to get a non-bullshit answer. I qualify my question and spend time explaining that I am serious about the question and that I do realize that it will sound strange. In part, I make sure they know who Reid Hoffman is or that h
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by nwenzel 11y ago
I have a bias toward smaller companies. I try to contain it, but I don't always succeed. As far as the learning part, I didn't mean to restrict "learning" to only mean coding/programming/developing. At a smalle
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by nwenzel 11y ago
I do spend a fair amount of time letting the person know why I ask the question, where it comes from (Reid Hoffman's book), and why I'm asking. I also position the question as being about a time pretty far in the future (and leave

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