The Powerhouses of the Internet Are Turning Hostile to Websites
Perhaps this was inevitable. In a system that encourages monopolies, and demands those monopolies increase growth rate and extract ever more revenue (sans caveats…
Startups
My Presentation from INBOUND 2018 Might Make You a Better Entrepreneur
Last week, I spoke at Hubspot’s INBOUND conference for the eighth year. For the first time, it was not under the auspices of my…
A New, Free Tool to Determine the True Influence of a Twitter Account
Number of followers is a crap metric. And yet, as I’ve been watching and learning from folks who do content marketing, PR-focused outreach, social…
SparkToro Raised a Very Unusual Round of Funding & We’re Open-Sourcing Our Docs
The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right…
Pushing Back Against Shame and Failure (plus a story about D&D)
Recently, I had a series of epiphanies about my experiences as a founder. Please forgive the length of the post, and stick with me,…
A Welcome to SparkToro’s Cofounder: Casey Henry
In 2011, in one of my favorite hiring stories, a longtime SEOmoz community member joined our team. He’d been contributing to the blog for…
Buy Lost And Founder and PRH Will Send You This Zelda-Style Startup Map
It’s been a whirlwind of a few weeks, launching a new book, launching a big piece of software for Moz (my final project with…
I Wrote a Weird Kind of Business Book
For the last two years, I’ve been working on a book about what it’s like to build a tech startup and how Silicon Valley’s…
New Jumpshot 2018 Data: Where Searches Happen on the Web (Google, Amazon, Facebook, & Beyond)
Over the last few years, I’ve been incredibly frustrated with inaccurate, unrepresentative data sources about how traffic flows on the web and where web…
Why Web Marketers Should Invest in Demand Creation
Every month, hundreds of thousands of people search on Google for “upcoming movies.” And in the SEO and web marketing worlds, there are a…