This Week in Startups - Brian Lee, Co-Founder of Legal Zoom & Founder of ShoeDazzle

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? Absolutely invaluable he brought credibility, PR and Buzz

00:35:30 Kim Kardashian is a co-founder and was not a cold call, Robert worked with her family and they wanted to leverage the same celebrity as they did with LegalZoom

00:37:30 How did you come up with ShoeDazzle?

00:45:40 What happens if a shoe is bought?

00:47:00 What is the next big challenge for ShoeDazzle?

01:02:00 What is your biggest mistake?

01:03:00 Biggest mentor?

01:09:30 How do you motivate your team?

01:14:30 THE NEWS with Lon Harris

01:15:00 iPhone 4 Recall?

Do you think Apple will recall the iPhone 4? What do you think of the way the company has responded to the issue publicly thus far?

01:18:30 Reddit Begs for Money

What do you think of Reddit - and by extension, Conde Nast - a major conglomerate - asking for money in order to keep Reddit going? Think the users will donate a significant sum? How else could they monetize what, by all accounts, is a massively successful service.

01:27:00 WSOP 2010 -- Wicked Chops Poker -- He went out with aces and made it to the top 3,000 out of 7,500 and lost his bet with David Sacks and will do a double or nothing on Full Tilt Poker with proceeds going to charity

01:33:00 Fring vs. Skype

What do you think of Skype's actions here? Are they behaving in a cowardly fashion? As an open platform, do they have the right to refuse to work with any other networks that they choose?

• Category

  • News
  • Science & Tech

• Starring:

  • Jason Calacanis

• Directed by:

  • Brandice Payne

• Produced by:

  • Brandice Payne

• Written by:

  • Kirin Kalia

[GreatestSurvival]

1) Did he use LegalZoom and their process for everything on the ShoeDazzle site?

2) How could he NOT know how many people work for him??

3) How could he NOT know how many people out of the unknown number of employees ar top level people? Does he NOT see tham all when they're having a meeting? (confused face, scratching my head).

[startupbuildervideos]

Hello, this is Mark from Startup-Builder... Good content, but I found this rather dry... That being said... my videos are sometimes dry as well! It is hard to engage your audience and present your content in an exciting manner. Keep it up... you inspired me to improve. Thanks,

[michaelpousti]

thank you for sharing some great stuff here..keep it up!

[haloflightleader]

Jason Nazar is a terrible interviewer. He keeps interrupting Brian. I want to hear Brian's answer to otherwise very good questions, but he's not being given a chance. Nazar keeps interrupting and digressing, and many questions are not being answered instead. It's like Nazar is not even listening to what Brian is saying.

[CraigX Rubin]

Brian is a criminal who worked to have Temple 420 shut down. This asshole should be in jail. He may have money, but he has no soul, so would trust his soles?

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