Why Does a Big Funding Round Slow Down Your Pace of Innovation?
“Why can’t we build it faster?!” I’ve never met an entrepreneur in the software field who doesn’t ask themselves that question daily. For a…
Why Are You Hiring for the Job I Want to Grow Into?!
I really, really like Moz’s Renea Nielsen. I was having a rough day at the office today, mostly because my calendar was filled with calls…
You Must Choose Metrics, But Choose Wisely
I had lunch with Thomas from our production engineering team today. During our chat, we talked about the future of the company’s organizational structure…
We Can Do Better Than Bit.ly
Of all the tools I use each day on the web, perhaps none frustrates me more than bit.ly. I like being able to track…
Understanding Stock Options at Startups (and at Moz)
Last Friday, SEOmoz held our “allhands” meeting at the Big Picture theater. Out of ~98 Mozzers, 85 of us were in attendance (sadly 3 had…
Greg – Congrats on the New Blog. Here’s Some Posts I’d Love to Read.
Seattle has long been in need of good VC bloggers. What Mark Suster has done for LA, Brad Feld has done for Boulder, and…
Time Recovery Hacks
Startup life has intense time requirements. In the early phases, there’s a lot of nose-to-the-grindstone need, and if the company successfully scales, the internal…
24 Things I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Then
I really liked Rae Hoffman’s post from last month, Entrepreneurial Lessons: 48 Things I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Then. And, while I…
More Retweets Lead to More Twitter Followers, Right?
Being a moderately analytical marketer, I should be pretty smart about assuming a correlation between two events that might not necessarily exist. And yet,…
Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation
As a CEO, many of the scariest days I’ve faced have been those when a critical member of our team told us they were…