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Re: My Last Day at Moz. My First Day at SparkToro.

philgo20 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:41:11 -0000

I've been following you from the start of SeoMoz, what a great ride. Congrats and good luck with the new projects. Keeping an eye on SparkToro, curious to see how you will tackle this.

Re: The User-Centric Approach – Google Universal Analytics vs. Mixpanel

philgo20 — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:42:46 -0000

Thanks for such a great overview of the 2 systems. This was written over a year ago... Is the following still true: "let’s talk about the real problem with Google Universal Analytics: There is not even one report that provides data on a user level. " ?

Re: How to run UTMB

philgo20 — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:52:30 -0000

Thanks for the cues and tips. Just about to fly out there. I can't wait!

Re: Do Successful People Need Sleep? – Speakeasy – WSJ

philgo20 — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:12:18 -0000

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Re: Stop stressing about startup competitors

philgo20 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:58:46 -0000

Or they think that because no one is doing 'exactly' what they do, they have no competition. They should figure out who they'll replace or what budget they're going after, that's their competition.

Re: Hiring One of Us: The Startup 'Cult of Personality'

philgo20 — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:05:07 -0000

Great post. Now I am curious to know ;-)

Re: My experience with intermittent fasting - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

philgo20 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:14:17 -0000

Si t'as le goùt d'aller te dépenser dans les trails du Mont-Roayl quand tu es en ville, tu me fais signe. I'll take you out for a workout ;-)

Re: Canadian Startup Marmelades Wants To Take the A.D.D. Out of Reading

philgo20 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:43:55 -0000

This is going to end in an epic fight between matchFWD's Georgette and Marmalade's Gary.

http://matchfwd.com/georgette

Re: Joining FreshBooks

philgo20 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:19:18 -0000

Congrats for the move Mark. One could think you're leaving because of the crazy weather we're having right now. See you in TO.

Re: Corruption in the banking sector

philgo20 — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:31:26 -0000

yes ;-)

Re: Quiet and Boring: How to Build a Successful Startup

philgo20 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:08:58 -0000

Very interesting acquisition for us as we're in the same space.

Job search is still mostly an SEO game and it's hardly changing for now. Will be interesting to see if anyone social media company but LinkedIn can compete the SEO traffic.

Re: Waterloo Region StartupFest

philgo20 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:25:05 -0000

It's hard to believe they don't know about Phil's event...

Funny.

Re: Social recruiting app Silp recruits 700,000 users, 12 days after launch

philgo20 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:32:12 -0000

And what explains the crazy uptake over the last 2 weeks ?

Re: The Recruiting Tech Startups You Should Know About

philgo20 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:33:55 -0000

Too bad you missed @matchFWD in your review.

Re: Gathering Leads using MTurk

philgo20 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:33:57 -0000

Link to your mTurk results is broken...

Re: ‘Small’ ideas are not the problem

philgo20 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:17:13 -0000

"
Traction, not ambition, defines a ‘world-changing’ idea."

This makes no sense. Traction is required to turn a potentially disruptive idea into a 'world changing' one. But does traction by itself defines it? How many non 'world changing' idea have generate ridiculous traction just because the guys behind it knew how to generate traffic and clicks? That does not mean anything.

Re: Moving Towards a Continuous Integration and Deployment Process

philgo20 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:33:10 -0000

Good for you. That's really the way to go. Even 2 weeks estimates are usually wrong...

Re: Is Code Written To Be Read?

philgo20 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:43:11 -0000

Well, yes and no. For parts of code needed to "test out ideas and features", sure. But except if you have a 2-3 months runway, there's gotta be some code that will stay as the foundation of everything you'll be testing, and yes I think this could should be readable. Except maybe if no one else ti go through the code...

Re: The Hustler

philgo20 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:22:22 -0000

And I do agree with you Ben. I don't go to "every startup event". But I also agree with Ken that there's value in serendipitous networking and just showing up with your ears open at random intervals.

My 2 cents.

Re: The Hustler

philgo20 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:34:59 -0000

I would replied yes to both. First being the hire we had been wishing for for months and the second keeping us from going into a dead end by meeting someone I had never managed to get a reply from, face to face.

But great list nonetheless Ben.

Re: The Most Important Social Network: GitHub

philgo20 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:34:58 -0000

And as more and more people publish plain text editorial pieces on Github or other type of content, it creates an incredibly social collaborative space.

Re: Microsoft, WPC and Entrepreneurs in Toronto

philgo20 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:33:58 -0000

The url for Careerfiy is http://www.careerify.net/

Re: We can’t all be founders

philgo20 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:06:22 -0000

Great post indeed. With everyone launching projects left and right and barely surviving you can't help but think whether it wouldn't be better if more were joining early-state startups instead of yet-another accelerator program.

Re: The Role of Product Managers

philgo20 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:29:41 -0000

Agreed. But testing is not only the actual "test", it's also a lot of planning and use cases and user stories. And it's hard to find someone who knows them better than the "product guy". You can hope someone will list them all out for you but ...

Re: The Role of Product Managers

philgo20 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:47:37 -0000

I am glad you specify testing. Product people (whether they call themselves designer, manager or CEO) should know the product inside out, know exactly what happens in what conditions and are therefore the best people to test it. Obviously you'll want to delegate some of it as your hire QA people but at the end of the day, you should be responsible for what's being shipped.