Amplify Your Business Goodlawyer

For Episode 179 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Grant Lahring, a co-founder and Head of Growth at Goodlawyer, a software marketplace based out of Calgary, Alberta. Goodlawyer provides startup founders and other founders with specialized legal services enterprises that they can trust. Through Goodlawyer, startups have the ability to work directly with lawyers, rather than having to communicate through the firm and paying extra overhead and costs.

 

Goodlawyer are striving to elevate the legal experience for startups and entrepreneurs by offering transparency around pricing, knowing your price before you start, knowing your deadlines, and being able to talk to your lawyer whenever you want, not whenever they want.

To learn more, visit their website at www.goodlawyer.ca 

 

00:00 - Intro

01:20 - What are three things that you think every entrepreneur needs to know?

07:19 - Can you tell us a little bit about Goodlawyer? What problem are you trying to solve right now?

10:41 - From a competitive standpoint, does Goodlawyer have many competitors out there that have a similar model?

12:00 - How did you get involved with Goodlawyer?

14:16 - Can you share with us a little about what it’s like coming in as a co-founder but not in the original founding group?

16:43 - How does everyone at Goodlawyer handle the idea of taking risks? 

18:52 - How do you approach conflict between partners at Goodlawyer?

20:58 - In your conversations with founders, have you found any common threads in terms of the skillsets that they bring to the table that differentiate the successful ones from those who struggle?

23:05 - From a personal perspective, what is one of the biggest challenges to the entrepreneurial life?

24:23 - What do you do to maintain your health - mental and physical - through all of the challenges and stress that being an entrepreneur brings?

28:00 - Do you have a favourite book, podcaster, blogger, or somebody that you admire and look forward to consuming their content?

30:46 - If you could write your past self a letter, what would it say?

34:09 - Is Goodlawyer self-funded, or have there been outside investors?

35:42 - If our viewers wanted to connect with you, what’s the best way to do so?

36:16 - Outro