Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised « Rand’s Blog

Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised « Rand’s Blog

 One of the weird things I’ve found (which probably deserves a post of its own at some point) is that the larger your scale, the longer it takes to build product. You’d think that having 15 full-time engineers and a significant support team around them would mean faster development, but it doesn’t – the scale we need to support (nearly 14K paying customers and 250K+ users of our free products) for anything we release means far greater attention to architecture, reliability and quality then when we had two devs and 500 users.