Rand's presentation from the Seattle Tech Meetup on October 22nd, 2013

1. 5 Contrarian Ideas About
Startups in 5 Minutes
Rand Fishkin, CEO & Founder | October 2013

2. No Need to Take Notes:
http://bit.ly/stmrand5

3. #1
MVPs Kinda Suck

5. #2
Great Ideas ≥ Great Execution

6. Cross-Team Collaboration
The Idea Maze

7. #3
Don’t Hire “Rockstars”

8. Belief in the Mythical 10X Hire Hurts Your Team

9. #4
Find Flywheel Marketing
Channels as Fast as Possible

10. Flywheels Get Easier to Turn Over Time
Whiteboard Friday video on flywheel marketing

11. #5
Don’t Make Management
the Only Way Up

12. If Management is the Only Way Up, We’re All F’d

13. Rand & Moz on the Web:
We’re Hiring! http://moz.com/about/jobs
My Blog (about startup-y stuff): http://moz.com/rand
Twitter: @randfish | Google+: 111294201325870406922