GeekWire Awards: Vote for Startup CEO of the Year

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We’re back for another round of voting in the GeekWire Awards, and today’s category is a big one: Startup CEO of the Year, presented by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. We kicked off voting for the GeekWire Awards last week, and we’ll continue tabulating the votes in each of the 14 categories in the coming days…. Read More…

Why entrepreneurs need to share moments of weakness with their startup peers

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“Oh excuse me, it’s Amy,” said Brad Feld as he answered his wife’s phone call, while sitting on stage doing a live panel to a packed out room at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle. Priorities! Many topics were covered during last night’s session, to share insights on how we, as entrepreneurs and workaholics, can… Read More…

Newsmakers 2012: Rand Fishkin points the way at SEOmoz

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Rand Fishkin has put SEOmoz on a possible path to become one of the Seattle region’s next public companies. Succeed or fail, his other contribution to the community will be his brutal transparency as he shares his lessons learned. The $18 million raised by SEOmoz in May wasn’t the largest venture capital financing for a Seattle… Read More…

Rand Fishkin’s top 11 startup tips to earn free customers

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Editor’s note: Team GeekWire is attending the GROW conference in Vancouver, B.C. this week, covering some of the talks.   Perhaps no entrepreneur can entertain and inform a crowd like Rand Fishkin. And the SEOMoz founder, fresh off the company’s $18 million venture capital round from May, was at it again during his talk today… Read More…

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz on search, startups, sticking it out

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Rand Fishkin is changing the way that Internet marketers do their jobs. He and his team at SEOmoz are part of a small sector of the tech space, where adaptation and growth are the name of the game. Though it hasn’t always been easy, this humble CEO has prioritized a startup culture that focuses on being here now, and… Read More…

Top secret project under wraps at SEOMoz: Is the Moz coming?

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SEOMoz is one of the most transparent startups we’ve ever come across, with CEO Rand Fishkin openly discussing everything from revenues to challenges as an entrepreneur to problems raising venture capital financing. That’s why we were so intrigued to stumble upon this Web site, which features the company’s robot mascot and the words “top secret”… Read More…

SEOmoz raises $18 million, Brad Feld joining board — and yes, the deal has closed

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SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin has been down this path before, as detailed in his extensive account of the company’s unsuccessful attempt to raise a large round of venture capital funding last year. But this time, with a different investor, the deal has actually closed. They’re so excited that they’ve created their own Internet memes about it…. Read More…

Rand Fishkin: How to earn tons of customers without spending money on crappy ads

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One of the most compelling things about SEOMoz co-founder Rand Fishkin is his complete transparency about the entrepreneurial voyage. Not many folks I know, lay it on the line quite like Rand, and because of that his talks are always engaging, funny and insightful. Fishkin delivered another one of those talks last week at the… Read More…

Inbound.org: A Hacker News for marketing content

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Online marketing is an ever-changing, fast-moving industry with no shortage of information available for those looking to master things such as SEO, Twitter and Google+. But there’s so much information flowing these days that it can be tough to sort the wheat from the chaff. SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin and HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah are… Read More…

Kate Matsudaira jumps from SEOMoz to Decide.com

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Kate Matsudaira has left her vice president of engineering post at SEOMoz to join the growing team at Decide.com, GeekWire has learned. Matsudaira, who spent the past two years at SEOMoz, will serve as vice president of engineering at the Seattle upstart. The University of Washington computer science grad says she’s looking forward to her new… Read More…

Post-it Wars Part Two: Space Invaders attack Pine Street

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It started simply enough. Drew Bennett, an engineer at SEOMoz, used some of his artistic talents last week to recreate a Space Invader on the company’s windows constructed entirely of multi-colored Post-it Notes. The alien creature got the creative juices flowing on Pine Street. And it wasn’t long before other nearby tech companies — within… Read More…

SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet

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SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million. Then, again, he may not.  I guess that’s the luxury of being a fast growing — not to mention profitable — startup company these days. You’ve got options, and Fishkin has plenty of them. Earlier… Read More…

SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin on Google’s Panda update: It’s been ‘great for our business’

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At the Seattle 2.0 Awards last week, Team GeekWire had the chance to chat with SEOMoz founder Rand Fishkin about his signature yellow Pumas and what it’s like to start a business with your mom. But we also drilled into some more weighty topics, including Google’s recent alterations to its search algorithm. Known as Panda,… Read More…