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🙌 Tack Stellar Capacity för inbjudan att tala med era kunder om aktivt risktagande. Vi måste alltid fokusera på uppsidan och sälj men vi behöver också förstå risksidan bättre och fatta skarpare beslut. I slutändan är jag säker på att ett skarpare riskfokus gör att många bolag kan ÖKA riskaptiten och faktiskt växa snabbare. Key take aways: - Titta aldrig på en risk enskilt utan att samtidigt väga risken mot uppsidan - Utvärdera risken utifrån (faktisk) påverkan och sannolikhet (börja med påverkan) - Inkludera risken att inte göra någonting när du väger uppsidan mot potentiell nedsida - Ifrågasätt ALLT - vi har inte råd med annat -Största risken är att stå still SLUTSATS: Öka sannolikheten att lyckas genom SMART risktagande. NU KÖR VI! 👊 —------------ ThinkAloud is an advisory firm consisting of Victoria Kopylov and Lise Alm. We combine the experience from C-level commercial execs in fast growing companies with legal and strategy expertise to help your company reach its goals faster. Some of our areas of expertise is equity strategy, e.g. helping out with investment rounds, incentive schemes, new market launches and complex issues with a legal angle including risk management. Reach out if you want to have a cup of coffee.

Tackling the risk of doing nothing is crucial in today's dynamic landscape.  🙌 Kudos to all the brilliant GCs, and especially our own speakers Paul Stuart 🇺🇦 and Sara Evelina Wagrowski, who shared insights at yesterday's GC meet-up featured by Leaders Alliance discussing the power of a well-aligned risk appetite and risk management in driving strong calculated business cases. 😇 I'm thrilled to facilitate several Leaders Alliance Network groups, where forward-looking legal minds can inspire and support each other. With business opportunities everywhere and new regulations looming, these forums are invaluable. 📣 Due to high demand, we're launching an additional group. If you're a GC or legal counsel seeking inspiration and peer support, DM me for details and we would love to have you join! Thank you brilliant speaker Josh Lenn for joining us as an external speaker last time discussing how to present passionately. What powerful skills!

A small step for woman - a big step for ThinkAloud! Last week we moved into our new offices. We chose Epicenter Stockholm for its nice vibe. It's right in the heart of Stockholm and the tech and investor scene. OK, so the office is essentially a closet... but it does the job 💃 🍵 Come by Epicenter and have a coffee with us and brainstorm your great ideas. Who knows, maybe we can inspire each other to reach new levels... :) -------------------------- ThinkAloud is a management consulting firm consisting of Lise Alm and Victoria Kopylov. We combine the experience from C-level commercial execs in fast growing companies with legal and strategy expertise to help your company reach its goals faster. We take on any interesting strategic challenge where we can work with inspiring people. And especially if it’s a complex challenge and has a legal strategy angel. 

I get a lot of questions from founders interested in bringing in new investors what to think about BEFORE closing. "A bag of money is the same as another bag of money, right?" Well not really in my experience. Investors differ a lot and care about different things so my best advice is to do your home work before the marriage. So you could all live happily ever after. 💒 Below we list some questions you can ask to identify the difference between different investors.

Morning startup founders! 👋 Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Nordic Female Founders Roundtable hosted by Naimul Abd at Founder Institute Nordics. If you are building (or planning to build) a startup in the Nordics, join us online and learn how to tap into the right resources and networks to accelerate your journey. Hope to see you there! Join us: https://fi.co/e/330989

I am extremely excited to tell you all that me and my good friend and former Spotify colleague Lise Alm have started a management consulting firm - ThinkAloud! 💃 💪 We are both commercial execs and former lawyers with 17 years on the ground experience from successful start- and scale ups, the tech industry and big law M&A. This allows us to combine 💰 the CEO’s business focus 🚀 the startup’s need for speed and ⚖ the lawyer’s understanding of risk to help you optimize your operations and navigate which strategic risks you can take on to achieve your goals faster. We are happy to roll up our sleeves to 🏎 speed up your innovation journey 🏁 navigate your long term equity plan (including investment rounds and incentive programs) 🌍 plan the execution of your international expansion and more… We are currently working with investors, companies and law firms to support their goals to improve and re-invent themselves. And we are super excited to get to play a small part of their journey. 🙌 2024 is off to a flying start but we still have some room in the calendar to discuss your next big challenge. Reach out and we grab a coffee. Here we go!!! 💃 👯

After an incredible 11-year journey in the startup industry, having worked with amazing growth companies like Spotify, Kry, and most recently Pocketlaw, the time has come for me to start a new chapter and build my own venture (will soon share more details). Reflecting on this experience is beyond words but the heart of it lies in the privilege of collaborating with extremely talented and visionary people on a mission to create something better (whether it relates to music, healthcare or legal). The path to success has never been clear and that's the kind of challenge that I truly enjoy.    I'm super happy and grateful for all the adventures, both successful and challenging, and, most importantly, for the incredible people I've had the privilege of working with. You know who you are. The last 3.5 years at Pocketlaw, transforming my "own" industry as a lawyer/GC, have been incredibly exciting. I am so proud of the phenomenal team Kira Unger, Olga Beck-Friis, Klara Apéria, Laura Cleaver, Faruk Sahin, Emil Nordh, Jennifer Waterland, Blake Wager, Nils Henckel, Andrea Birgersson, Johan G. and everyone else who continue to drive the legal tech revolution, helping companies work smarter with legal. The pace of change is accelerating, and very soon companies will wonder how they even managed without Pocketlaw. As I transition into new endeavors, I'll always remain a steadfast supporter and cheerleader to Pocketlaw and its mission. More details to follow soon. Grateful for the journey and excited for what lies ahead!

Somebody just asked me why I joined Pocketlaw. So, for anyone interested in a personal deep dive of an old lawyer that was confident that mastering legal could add massive value to business but frustrated on how to proceed – you may find this interesting.   I’ve spent almost 10 years as a GC / senior counsel, primary objective being to support business growth whilst controlling risk. Having been fortunate to have joined mega successful companies like Spotify and KRY, we were always on the move to improve and do more (sometimes with less). I’ve tried everything (workshops, standardising templates, coding of consultancy contracts, hiring great lawyers etc.) but nothing was a real game changer. We were stuck with manual processes, human error, no aggregate overview /status/ping on key contracts / dates -- not to mention all the double work trying to maintain control and a clear structure whilst ensuring being investment ready within 1 week.   I wanted to invest 90% of my time on business-critical issues - and automate everything we did more than once. It was very clear to me that we had nothing to lose (yes, coming from a lawyer!) from using software support - just like all other departments in the mgmt team. On the contrary - the risk of NOT using software support became too big.   We tried many tools, like Juro, Ironclad and Precisely, but none of them was a success. Why? Failed implementation? Maybe - but it was more than that. All these systems were pinpointing specific issues (like contract automation, repository or simple e-signing), forcing us to invest in several tools.   On top of that, these systems were lacking fundamental critical features for success in my opinion such as 🙇♀️ Legal expertise is more or less a prerequisite, i.e. people outside the legal team couldn't get legal done themselves, and the workload was stuck with us lawyers. 🤷♀️ Complicated tools lead to failed implementation and no usage - the upside and user friendliness must be perceived as materially bigger than the actual pain - otherwise people won’t use it. We need to make legal (super)sexy. 🤦♀️ My inhouse team was required to set up the system for success which we weren't qualified to do and of course had ZERO time for. Again leaving us with no help, just cost. 😭 None of these systems leveraged data enough, it was mainly about automation - not feeding me with smart data so I could prioritise better.   I decided to join Pocketlaw 3.5 years ago to support the development of the next gen legal mgmt tool - NOT just for legal but for everyone. That to me is key for success and allows lawyers to do what we do best, setting the playbook -- allowing the team to execute. I used to dream about having my own dashboard and work proactively (like Sales use Salesforce), basing decisions on data, not just my gut feeling. Now that dream is true.

📢 Hello amazing network! Looking for a new opportunity or challenge? 🔥 Then this is for you! Pocketlaw is growing and need more amazing stars to our team. Now we're especially looking for ✔ Business Development Representatives ✔Account Executives and ✔Customer Success Managers Are you our next 🌟 ? Come join our fantastic team and help us drive the change of the legal industry! Check out our career site (https://lnkd.in/gdvKVnJ8) or send me a dm. 👋

Really excited to be on stage at LegalGeek and discuss the future of legal with fantastic Lorna Khemraz from Teya. Thank you for sharing practical examples of how to just get started and leverage technology in new ways in the legal field as well as in your entire team at Teya. Extremely inspiring. My main take aways from the conference: ✔ The legal tech industry is exploding with vendors, new solutions and ideas on how to leverage LLMs to support lawyers in different capacities. This is great news and I love that we are exploring and being creative. 👌 ✔ BUT - as Lorna pointed out on stage, we mustn't lose the actual OBJECTIVE 🏁 of using technology or be swept away by the new capabilities of AI at our fingertips. We need to continue investigating WHY and HOW we should use technology to get ahead - and not just implement new tools because we are overwhelmed by fancy marketing and buzz words. ✔ Next steps should be around understanding, measuring and assessing what impact new tools has in various processes / projects. How much can we gain by using smart platforms and enable the right person to do the job rather than creating bottlenecks. Anyone interested in sharing practical examples that actually works and add value on the business side - pls reach out and I am happy to share as well. EXCITING TIMES AND NO TIME TO LOSE! Let's get in the game. 👊