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…
Team
Why Elon Musk’s “People as Vectors” Analogy Resonates
In his keynote at INBOUND last year, Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot’s cofounder) shared a personal story of meeting Elon Musk and their short but powerful…
Moz Returns to SEO
Preface: This is a hard post to write, and one that’s taken far longer than I hoped to publish. Never before have I been…
Negative Self Talk and Self Deprecation
I’m not sure if I can short form blog effectively (like two of my blogging heroes – Brad & Fred), but I’m going to…
Swapping Drivers on this Long Road Trip Together
2013 has been a really hard year for me. In many ways, it’s been harder than even the 2002-2006 era when my Mom and…
Launching Adventure Teams at Moz
Like many software companies moving from the early to growth stage, we’ve experienced our fair share of challenges and pains. At the start of…
Vision-Based Framework
Some companies exist primarily (or exclusively) to make money. Others exist for a variety of non-financial (or pseudo-financial) reasons. But in much of the…
Generosity & Entitlement
I’ve been trying something new at Moz. I schedule 90 minutes every week or two for “office hours,” and invite anyone from any team…
Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far
Company culture is incredibly fragile. It’s hard for founders/CEOs/execs to understand how little faith and trust people have in us when we stand up…
If Management is the Only Way Up, We’re All F’d
Geraldine used to love her job at Cranium (the board game startup in Seattle, prior to the Hasbro acquisition & layoffs). She wrote questions…