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

May 20, 2012 By Bobby Voicu

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.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

May 15, 2012 By Bobby Voicu

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

“The Flickr team was forced to focus on integration, not innovation. This played out in two key areas.”

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