Towards Paperless Contracts: EchoSign CEO Jason Lemkin (Part 3)

SM: What were you doing while all of the drama was going on with BabyCenter? JL: I briefly worked with one of my co-founders of EchoSign at a small consulting firm. We were then helping other 1.0 companies work on some issues, and we helped some with the BabyCenter issues. We then got recruited by

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Forbes Column 2009: Open Source Means Business

600,000 unemployed. So how do we channel the vast unemployed pool of highly skilled technical people around us? Here’s a column that offers some possible answers: Open Source Means Business. If you know (I’m sure you know) engineers who are out of work and contemplating their options, do present this as one. If you can,

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Towards Paperless Contracts: EchoSign CEO Jason Lemkin (Part 2)

SM: Let’s talk about your time at BabyCenter. When did you get involved? JL: I joined the company about a year after it was founded. I had gotten to know them as a lawyer.

More Strategy Roundtables For Entrepreneurs

Here are some more Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs to discuss their business issues with me. During this 60-minute session, entrepreneurs are invited to pitch me their ideas in a 3-minute presentation. I will review the material in real-time and provide feedback on each pitch, as well as address specific strategy questions from the entrepreneur.

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Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis

Remember my earlier story: Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis? Well, here is an interesting story in the NYT this week: Wall St. Pay Is Cyclical.

Towards Paperless Contracts: EchoSign CEO Jason Lemkin (Part 1)

Jason Lemkin is CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, an electronic signature automation service. He was previously an entrepreneur-in-residence at Storm Ventures and co-founder of NanoGram Devices, Prior to his work in technology he was a corporate counsel at Venture Law Group. He earned a BA from Harvard and a JD from Berkeley. You can find his

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Deal Radar 2009: SnapMyLife

SnapMyLife, a mobile social media site, was founded in April 2008 by George Grey and David Chang. The company was initially a side ‘project’ on their first venture, mobile content directory Mobicious.com, when they noticed that many users were submitting their own user-generated content to the site. The ‘project’ took off immediately and soon became the pair’s

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PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 7)

SM: In 2006 you decided to take VC money. Why then? VS: Our business got pretty big, relatively speaking. I am not an insider in that area, but we started getting calls from tier 1 VCs. I was never interested in just doing the rounds, but I figured if folks like that wanted to court

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