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How Lawyers Should Work With Startups: A Conversation With Serial Entrepreneur & VC Mark Suster

How lawyers can better help startups? Serial-entrepreneur-turned-VC Mark Suster has some advice for you.

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Ed. note: This is the latest post by Above the Law’s guest conversationalist, Zach Abramowitz, of conversation platform ReplyAll. You can see some of his other conversations and musings here.

Back when I worked in Biglaw (and even as far back as law school), one of the biggest complaints I heard from other attorneys was that it wasn’t satisfying to work for big faceless corporations and financial firms. But, as it becomes easier, cheaper and, yes, hipper, for people to start their own companies, there is a real opportunity for lawyers — in both big and small firms — to pivot and start working with startup companies. That hipster friend of yours who lives in an ironic hole in the wall in Brooklyn and is building a company that she insists on referring to as a “platform” could be your next client.

But how can you become a lawyer who adds value for startup clients and who startups seek out? Mark Suster is a serial-entrepreneur-turned-VC who sold his last company Koral to Salesforce and is now a partner at LA-based Upfront Ventures. His aptly named blog, Bothsides of the Table, is a staple for people who work in startups and contains one of the single most important posts for any aspiring entrepreneur, “How to Work With Lawyers at a Startup.” Mark joins us today to share his expertise as both an entrepreneur and a VC about the inverse question, which is more relevant for ATL readers: how lawyers can better help startups?

Zach Abramowitz is a former Biglaw associate and currently CEO and co-founder of ReplyAll. You can follow Zach on Twitter (@zachabramowitz) or reach him by email at zach@replyall.me.

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