213: Overcoming Depression and Starting Over: Behind the Scenes With Rand Fishkin, Moz Founder

213: Overcoming Depression and Starting Over: Behind the Scenes With Rand Fishkin, Moz Founder

You may know former Moz CEO Rand Fishkin from his characteristic curly mustache, Whiteboard Friday videos, or his SEO mastery. But this interview isn’t about linking, Google rankings, or gray-hat practices. Or mustaches. In our chat with Fishkin, he opens up about his battle with depression and how it has shaped his past decisions and guided his current ventures. He sympathizes with the many entrepreneurs who have also succumbed to loneliness and wondered why their business success wasn’t enough to make them happy. Fishkin also talks about his new book, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. In it, he shares the conversations entrepreneurs have about their challenges and hardships, whether personal or in their businesses. Fishkin also shares details on his new software project and why he decided to venture into another startup. If you want to be inspired, encouraged, and take away some great advice from a long-time founder, don’t miss this interview. We hope you find it as moving as we did! Key Takeaways Why striving to emulate Silicon Valley startup culture can negatively affect your business growth How and why Moz’s customer acquisition costs went down after laying off half of his marketing team How to know when to sacrifice profit for growth The dark side of entrepreneurial leadership

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174: How to Start a Social Change Movement with 100 Million People, with Ben Rattray of Change.org

174: How to Start a Social Change Movement with 100 Million People, with Ben Rattray of Change.org

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173: How to Predict The Future with Kevin Kelly

173: How to Predict The Future with Kevin Kelly

If you don't know Kevin Kelly's name, you undoubtedly know his work. Staying mostly behind the scenes, Kelly has quietly influenced the world as we know it, from pop culture to how we interact with di...

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172: Finding A-Grade Talent on a Bootstrapped Budget with Cyan Ta'eed of Envato

172: Finding A-Grade Talent on a Bootstrapped Budget with Cyan Ta'eed of Envato

For any startup to be successful, it's going to need an amazing team. It's why Fortune 500 companies are willing to pay their executives so much, and invest millions of dollars into finding and hiring...

1 Nov 201750min

171: Shark Tank's Janine Allis Shares Her Secrets for Growing a Startup With Zero Funding

171: Shark Tank's Janine Allis Shares Her Secrets for Growing a Startup With Zero Funding

Despite being a prolific investor as one of the judges on Australia's Shark Tank, Janine Allis would rather sell her family home than seek investor funding. How do we know? Well, that's precisely what...

13 Okt 201743min

170: Building a Multimillion-Dollar Startup on Amazon Sales, with Jungle Scout’s Greg Mercer

170: Building a Multimillion-Dollar Startup on Amazon Sales, with Jungle Scout’s Greg Mercer

Greg Mercer built an entire lifestyle business without having to build his own products, distribution network, or even an online store. Instead of creating his first business from scratch, Mercer took...

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169: Billionaire Business Lessons with Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban

169: Billionaire Business Lessons with Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is a very busy man. As one of the star judges of the hit show Shark Tank, Cuban has invested in nearly a hundred different startups that have appeared on the program. That's not even mentio...

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168: How Owning Less Can Reward You With More. Redefining Success With Joshua Fields Millburn

168: How Owning Less Can Reward You With More. Redefining Success With Joshua Fields Millburn

Often as entrepreneurs, we envision success as owning more objects, like a fancy watch, a big house, or a fast car. But what if there were a more authentic, more enriching version of success? One that...

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167: How Entrepreneurs Can Change the World, with Leila Janah of Samasource

167: How Entrepreneurs Can Change the World, with Leila Janah of Samasource

Great entrepreneurs have that rare ability to take risks that others find crazy, coupled with a single-minded determination that allows them to bring their visions to life. But some of us want to do m...

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