' ... every day you show up, just make things one bit better.' Great motivation for anything in life, really
review.firstround.com/the-not-so-coo…

AI legal startups are a thing in 2024.

But as Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig puts it, “nobody was trying to buy an AI legal assistant back in 2015.”

Ironclad has one of the most interesting and underexplored stories out there IMO. As we were developing First Round's PMF Method, we…

The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier

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If you're set on creating a category, listen to Jason Boehmig's story about Ironclad pivoting positioning from an AI legal assistant (circa 2015!) to contract lifecycle management.

And it all started with a random email from a publicly traded company...

I love this story ❤️

'Every CEO succeeds for his or her own reason. The CEO job is inherently idiosyncratic. It's specific to the market you're in, the team you have, the moment in time, the scale of your company and so on.

All of these really broad variables determine what is needed of a CEO. And…

Take Two: Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over Again

Focus and “Play the instrument you’re best at”

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Not a lot of people know that we launched ironclad.ai as a AI legal assistant back in 2015. It was fun to reflect on the early days with the amazing team at First Round as part of their PMF Method 🙌

Really good insights:

First Round In Depth podcast open.spotify.com/show/0zhZc5wSO…

Starting over? review.firstround.com/take-two-eight…. Has some great lessons.

Love this quote from lloyd tabb on one of his biggest lessons as a repeat founder. So many good nuggets of wisdom in First Round Review’s new guide on advice for second-time founders starting over again.

review.firstround.com/take-two-eight…

Great read packed with truth from ⁦⁦First Round⁩, for 2nd time founders.

“Take Two: Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over Again” review.firstround.com/take-two-eight…

I often get asked what is Product Market Fit? Do I have it? The best framework I have found is from our friends at First Round
pmf.firstround.com/levels