Jack Newton
Founder & CEO, Clio. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jack Newton is the co-founder and CEO of Clio, a leading cloud-based legal practice management software company launched in 2008. He is also the author of the bestselling book The Client-Centered Law Firm and previously hosted the legal tech podcast Daily Matters.
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13said about them ↓ Everything Jack Newton said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
TechCrunch press flatters founder vanity while niche trade press acquires customers
“Getting in TechCrunch Is about getting in front of your co-founder friends and feeling good that you've got your company covered in TechCrunch. Where, where you really want to be getting covered is in the kind of publications that your prospective customers ar…”
Perfecting a product for a single customer scales to thousands
“We often think about building for 10 or a hundred or a thousand customers, but often if you laser focus on the right single customer and just make sure your product is really singing for them, again, you can find 10, you can find a hundred, you can find a thou…”
Five-person teams face massive communication overhead compared to two-person teams
“The, you know, the communication overhead that comes with even a five person team ends up being enormous compared to the kind of velocity that a really small team can move when you've got the clarity of vision of what you need to build.”
Solo and small law firms face the most bar disciplines
“Solos and small firms didn't have this human infrastructure to help support them. And therefore that's what the law society of BC and many other law societies across Canada and bar associations across the US. What they see is that this solo small firm segment …”
Startups incorrectly treat beta programs as mere bug-fixing stages
“Many early stage startups launch a beta with a presumption and maybe even the dependency that all that's being Tweaked in the beta is, is bug fixes. You know, you'd like, you really don't want to learn anything net new about your customer in the beta. You're, …”
Clio required a mandatory 30-minute webinar to access its beta program
“The friction point we introduced was you sign up for the beta and to get into the beta, you need to attend a 30 minute live Webinar with one of me or Ryan, and we would walk you through the product, teach you how to use it, give you a bit of a tour, and give t…”
Clio was the world's first cloud-based legal practice management system
“Clio was really the first cloud-based practice management system to launch in, in beta form and in, in full form later in October in the world.”
Vertical SaaS holds a structural customer acquisition advantage over horizontal SaaS
“It's one of the places, you know, I think that vertical SaaS has a huge advantage relative to horizontal SaaS, where you need to take a much more and a much more expensive, like horizontal and brand based and, Advertising in the New York Times or other mainstr…”
Eighty percent of the legal market works in firms under ten lawyers
“80% of the legal market is lawyers practicing in firms of one to 10 lawyers. And fully half of all lawyers practice in, in small firm in, in a solo environment with maybe one or two support staff.”
Clio validated pre-code demand by asking early prospects for credit cards
“What we were able to do in this early customer development process is, is just put prototypes in front of solo and small firm lawyers and say, Hey, based on this wireframe and based on the capabilities that this product would deliver to you, Would you give me …”
Clio spent only a few hundred dollars monthly on marketing in 2008
“So our marketing budget for the first year of our launch for over 2008 was basically, you know, a few hundred dollars per month that we were spending You know, on, on some very experimental Google ads and otherwise free you know, just with this PR effort.”
Christoph Janz's first angel investment was a four-person Zendesk
“He has started investing as an angel investor. And he sent us an email saying exactly that. I've just become an email, an angel investor. I just invested in my first company, a company called Zendesk, which at that point was like four guys in Copenhagen. So hi…”
Clio achieved product-market fit when its first beta user ran her firm
“I think we felt like we had true product market fit when we had our first beta customer using the product to run her law firm and was really using Clio to make
Money for herself and depending on Clio in a production environment.”
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