102: Nikhil Nirmel of Lawdingo.com will be discussing the attorney-client matching platform, Lawdingo.

Nikhil Nirmel is an NYC-based entrepreneur in the nascent virtual professional services space. He is the solo founder and CEO of Lawdingo, whose flagship product Lawdingo.com allows people across the country to work with a lawyer online. Nikhil single-handedly leads the company, and took Lawdingo through the seed accelerator Y Combinator as a solo, non-technical founder, and raised a seed round of $850k. Prior to starting Lawdingo, Nikhil led quantitative research at Yelp, and was in charge business analysis at Yodle. Nikhil holds a BS in Economics from Penn’s Wharton School.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

• Listen as Nikhil explains that the original concept for Lawdingo, offering video chat consultations with Lawyers billed by the minute was wrong in pretty much every direction and how they were able to pivot to where they are now.

Tell us something good

• Nikhil tells us that getting the funding from Y Combinator was a huge success
• Hear how the biggest success was having the vision for the product and seeing it in action today.

How do you support a Lawpreneur?

• Lawpreneurs apply online directly with Lawdingo.com defining their education and areas of practice.
• Consumers make a call or web chat and are helped with defining their needs and are then directed to a Lawyer.

Favorite Resource

• Twilio.com
• Stripe

Favorite Books:

• Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these stories—how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group—is more important than ever

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