Fear of Ignorance
This past week, I was interviewing a candidate for a VP role along with two of our engineering leads. Everyone in the room excluding…
Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
Over the course of this year, I’ve written a couple times about raising a potential round of venture financing for my company, SEOmoz. At…
Inflection Points: Bravery vs. Foolishness
Inflection points in startup life technically happen every day, but in my experience, there’s a difference between the once-a-week variety and the truly BIG…
Just Keep Going
In 1997 I was just graduating from high school and started to design small business websites using Microsoft Frontpage and a variety of amateurish…
Sometimes VC Just Ain’t Enough
We’ve gotten a lot of interest from venture capital, private equity and other types of investment firms lately at Moz. Nearly every week features…
The Dangerous Hubris of the Startup World
Students of history will almost certainly be familiar with the 7 Deadly Sins – the list of human vices that are, purportedly, the source for…
Why I’m a Conference Whore
Mark Suster, whose blog and tweets I enjoy and whose investments strike me as innovative and smart wrote a blog post in October, Be…
“You Can’t Do It” is Powerful Motivation
From age 20-26, I was, quite possibly, the world’s worst entrepreneur. I dropped out of college two classes away from graduating. In a typically…
“You Can’t Do It” is Powerful Motivation
From age 20-26, I was, quite possibly, the world’s worst entrepreneur. I dropped out of college two classes away from graduating. In a typically…
The Algorithm + the Crowd are Not Enough
In the last decade, the online world has been ruled by two, twin forces: The Crowd and The Algorithm. The collective “users” of the…