An Impossible-to-Live-up-to Hero: Chuck Feeney
When people ask me what I want to do with my life or what I’m trying to do with SEOmoz, I often mentioned Chuck…
Exceptional Upgrade Path UX from WPEngine
I’m fascinated by the mechanics of startup marketing, customer acquisition, and revenue generation. So when I received this email for my WPEngine WordPress Hosting account…
What’s the Right Team Structure?
As I often note on this blog, I’m a rookie CEO who’s gotten very lucky. Much of the time, I wish I had more…
Keeping Amazing People on the Team
Many of my posts on this blog are intended to be broad in scope and provide an opinion, data or experience about startup/marketing paths.…
Why Cash Bonuses Make No Sense in Startups
It’s tough competing for candidates with the likes of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. In the past 6 months, we’ve lost bids for half…
My Favorite Board Meetings
When we first raised an investment round in 2007, SEOmoz’s board of directors (consisting of Michelle Goldberg from Ignition, Gillian & myself from Moz,…
One Bad, “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture
We’ve all received a work email that made us cringe – the ones that sound formal and threatening or vaguely like a punishment for…
How We Cheat at Conferences (and why you should, too)
Every year for the last 7, we’ve held a customer event in Seattle during the summer (and only been rained on 3, maybe 4…
Domain Bias: Why Branding & Search Marketing Cannot Be Separated
Let’s say you’re visiting Phoenix, AZ for the first time. You head to Google and type in a search query for “best restaurants Phoenix,”…
The Big Picture Conversation
I feel like a broken record. Lately, I’ve been sitting down with founder friends of mine and having a discussion about how their business…