“My whole hope for the AI revolution … is that AI should make it so people have to work less, but make better decisions around the things that people are… Read More
Intriguing and quirky characters flock to the tech industry. But how many of them would happily classify themselves as a barbarian or a sorcerer, a druid or cleric? Turns out,… Read More
Rand Fishkin and Casey Henry have plenty of experience helping build venture-backed companies — and that’s part of the reason why they avoided the traditional venture financing route for their… Read More
Rand Fishkin, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur and SparkToro founder, became known for his “Whiteboard Friday” videos as the co-founder of Moz, so when he came to our studio recently for… Read More
Lots of startup leaders talk about transparency. Rand Fishkin lives it. The co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based marketing technology startup Moz is known for publicly sharing information that many… Read More
Rand Fishkin started the marketing software company Moz 17 years ago with his mom at a time when the term SEO was just getting legs. Given that long history, the… Read More
More than 16 years after launching Moz, Rand Fishkin is ready for his next adventure. Over the next six-to-nine months, Fishkin will step away from day-to-day operations at the Seattle-based… Read More
Transparency is a core value for Rand Fishkin and Moz, the Seattle marketing software company he founded 12 years ago. While it has guided Moz along its startup journey, staying true… Read More
Haiku Deck, the Seattle startup that’s creating an alternative to PowerPoint, has raised some fresh capital and appointed to key tech executives to its board. According to a SEC filing,… Read More
Back in December, Moz founder Rand Fishkin went public with his plans to step down as CEO of the Seattle marketing startup. In an unusual but characteristic display of corporate… Read More
Moz co-founder Rand Fishkin stepped down from the CEO post last December, handing the reins of the 11-year-old company to longtime confidant Sarah Bird. But Fishkin, known for instituting a… Read More
Moz already let people know that 2013 wasn’t its most successful year, and now there are numbers to prove it. The Seattle-based provider of search-engine and social-media optimization software just publicly… Read More
In an unusual but characteristic display of corporate transparency, Moz co-founder Rand Fishkin today went public with a plan to step aside as CEO, but remain with the company —… Read More
One of the toughest and most important parts of growing a startup is building a team. Just look at the gray hair in Rand Fishkin’s beard. Speaking at GeekWire Startup… Read More
Moz — back then called SEOmoz — was growing rapidly two-and-a-half years ago and the company needed four-to-five new employees to keep the momentum going. So, in an effort to… Read More
Life returns to normal for Wil Reynolds and Rand Fishkin today. Last week, though, was far from regular. The two buddies and startup founders conducted a unique and ambitious experiment,… Read More
OK, folks, as they say: “If you snooze, you lose.” Early-bird prices end later today for our big Startup Day event, taking place Oct. 25 at the Showbox Sodo in… Read More
What happens if you switch places with a fellow CEO, manage their employees and live in their house for one week? We’re about to find out. Seattle-based Moz CEO Rand Fishkin and… Read More
Bring together a bunch of highly-successful entrepreneurs in one room and you’ll notice a few common qualities. These people work their tails off, have an immense passion for what they… Read More
Rand Fishkin wrapped up Mozcon 2013 in style by outlining his principles for great marketing and leading a discussion on the problems with Internet marketing today. Here are the six ingredients… Read More
In 2009, we tried to raise money. We talked to people at 40 different firms. We had second meetings with 16 of the partners we spoke to. And at the… Read More
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… Read More
“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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More