| This week we have guest host Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com and Brian Lee, Co-Founder of Legal Zoom & Founder of ShoeDazzle. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. 00:03:00 ShoeDazzle takes peoples information and recommends fashion items primarily shoes, Kim Kardashian is a Co-Founder and spokeman 00:05:30 How many shoes do women buy a year? 00:07:30 Are you a LA native? Yeah Brian grew up in Orange County and went to UCLA for undergrad and graduate school, his father is an entrepreneur, he worked for his businesses and his parents were shocked he wanted to be a lawyer 00:08:45 How long did you practice law? 00:09:30 Brian Lee and Brian Liu were friends at law school and they would eat lunch everyday and say their has to be something better than this, being a lawyer wasn't exciting, one day in 1998-9 they thought the internet was hot and thought why not create something law related online. 00:11:00 Approx. 92% of people who represent themselves they do something wrong and thought this was the opportunity 00:15:00 How did you meet and get Robert Shapiro (OJ Trial) involved? 00:19:00 First VC meeting was the day the NASDAQ crashed in 2000 and all they had was a team and an idea but no real product, yet they believed in the idea 100% and decided to bootstrap, they raised $50k from friends and family 00:21:00 How did you grow the company? We were profitable from day 1 00:31:30 How important was Robert Shapiro ... |
