A Conversation with Bryan Pham for the Asian Hustle Network podcast‍Bryan: At what point did you realize that you had product market fit and how did youadvertise this product?‍Raad: It started out with my co founder and I knocking door to door

Why I Got Fired from CVS

Mar 15th, 2022 3m 36s

Kamrul: Raad, I'm just curious. Why did you get fired from CVS?Raad: There was one night where someone asked me to vacuum the aisle, and I think I was the youngest worker there and I just didn't want to vacuum it. It was supposed to be an every

Marketplaces Achieve Network Effects From Trust

Mar 12th, 2022 2m 4s

EJ: Does this create any network effects, as you sell into lawyers? Obviously if they want to, they can go start their own practice and use Lawtrades. Do you see that happening?Raad: That's an interesting question. We've actually had people in

How Our Pivot Grew Revenue By 10x (But Almost Bankrupted Us)

Mar 9th, 2022 7m 45s

At the end of 2019, Lawtrades’s bank balance was down to $20k.People were getting value from our platform, but we were struggling to convert that value into a healthy balance sheet. Investors were wary of our niche after Atrium shut down, so we

How I Validated My Startup Idea

Jan 20th, 2022 2m 36s

EJ: I can think of how I might approach this. If I were in that position, I might try to go out and get large clients first then see if I could subcontract that work to some lawyers I knew. How did you approach validating this idea. Was was mos

Marketplaces bring hiring into the future

Jan 7th, 2022 2m 56s

EJ: It sounds like you're creating a category. There are people who start their own law practices, but it seems like something people do later on after they have a few decades of experience. You're building awareness for lawyers that this is so

What I'm reading about now

Dec 30th, 2021 1m 45s

I’m reading more on philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, spirituality- things within the realm of ego and consciousness. Such as how your emotions work, or how you can observe them.I got into meditation over the last 2 or 3 years. Most of the

Why I went to law school

Dec 27th, 2021 3m 34s

In undergrad, I studied Philosophy of Law, and I really liked philosophy. I like reading, and writing. I wasn't very good at the hard sciences. I originally started as a chemistry major and I just wasn't into it. It was more forced than anythin

What Starting a Startup as a First-Gen American is like

Dec 24th, 2021 8m

Kamrul: Obviously you're Bangladeshi, but do you find yourself to be in touch with your "Bengali-ness" for lack of a better word. Are you close with your family in Bangladesh?Raad: Yes and no. I was born here in the U.S. I went back when I was

Why I'm Building my Life's Work on the Internet

Dec 21st, 2021 4m 51s

Kamrul: I'd love to hear about how you got started. You don't have a tech background either. I know you got into one of these incubators, 500 startups. How did that come about?Raad: I've read books, essentially. There were always all these forc

How I Started a Legal-Tech Startup

Dec 20th, 2021 3m 58s

Kamrul: I'd love for you to explain what Lawtrades is. You've never practiced law yourself, but you're catering to an industry of practitioners. Raad: I think in the beginning, I viewed that as a weakness. But now I think that is one of the gre

Life is ephemeral, waste it wisely

Dec 19th, 2021 57s

I think after I lost them it recalibrated what I was doing, why I was doing it, and how insanely limited our time here on Earth is- how ephemeral is is.All your accumulation and ideas can be gone just like that. After 5,000 years I don’t think

The Truth About Going Through 500 Startups

Dec 19th, 2021 3m 30s

Kamrul: What are the pros and cons of going through an incubator versus friends and family, or self-funding?Raad: The incubator accelerator route is cool because they give you money. 500 Startups invested 125K into us, and they're professional

A Startup is your own Personal Utopia

Dec 8th, 2021 2m 40s

I feel like part of building a company is all of those connections that you make. Your company is this ideal utopian world that, this is how I wish the world was, and I get to create it.And in that process, you get to pick who you work with, wh

On Startups, Life, and Philosophy

Dec 6th, 2021 54m 28s

Key Takeaways:* Yes, I’ve never held a steady job...spoiler: it turned out OK.* The internet is possibly the best wealth creation tool, ever* I never grew up craving appreciation from others* Our time here is insanely limited- waste it wisely*

🐓How can I get over my fears?

Sep 17th, 2021 1m 38s

After jumping out of an airplane 13,000 feet high and falling back down to earth at 120 mph, my friends started asking me how they can get over their fears.Like the fear of quitting their job and pursuing their startup full-time.They want me to

The point of meditation

Jul 25th, 2021 1m 13s

Humans haven’t evolved to be happy.Here’s how I know:See if you can pay attention to something for the next 30 seconds.Like your breath.The sound of the trees or air conditioner if you’re inside.Try reading a book without getting distracted by

Act like you don't need to raise money

Jul 12th, 2021 1m 10s

VC's love to invest money in founders who don't need it.Universities love giving scholarships to students who don't need their help.People follow people on social media who won't give them the time of day.It's a strange but universal human beha

P.S. You're going to die

Jun 29th, 2021 4m 4s

No matter how much we try to suppress it, death is an indisputable part of life.Yet we still choose to maintain a state of denial to avoid getting up close and personal with it. This leads us to live a life in a default state of unconsciousness

Happy people don't care

May 14th, 2021 2m 9s

Unhappiness is when you worry about not having something. Depression is realizing you’ll never have it. And freedom is understanding you never needed it in the first place.Humans are comprised of emotion and intellect, so it’s easy to think you

Drift off to oblivion

Apr 30th, 2021

Af-flu-en-za n.1 . The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2 . An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3 . An unsustain

Hard work is b******t

Apr 25th, 2021 4m 44s

Hard work is b******t and if it feels like you’re working hard, you’re probably not interested in the thing you’re working on.After starting Lawtrades, it took 3 years to cross our first million in sales.This year, we got there in 2 months.I re

Core Values

Apr 14th, 2021 1m 52s

Core values guide me to finding the right people to get into relationships with.Whether that’s great coworkers, lovers, friends, or investors—when my values line up with theirs, I know I’m probably going to be around them for the rest of my lif

Think for yourself

Apr 11th, 2021 55s

It's about operating within the system without being controlled by it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raad.substack.com

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