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I want people to understand the why, that's why I'm here. My goal isn't to convince people to change their mind. The truth of the matter is that we were put into a difficult position, and with the information we had, this was what we viewed as our only course of action.

It's not a fear, it's a legal obligation. If we don't protect our trademark in instances like this, where we are aware of infringement, we can be legally estopped from protecting our trademark in future cases.

Pulling over my comments on the matter from Inbound.org. Anji mentions a partnership in his post that I wanted to put come context behind.

> When Anji reached out to us initially, they were CapSEO. At the time, I had no idea Doz existed, or that CapSEO was rebranding. As Anji and I talked, the discussion was around the functionality of CapSEO, which I saw as complementary. Later the discussion moved to their plans to rebrand to Doz, with a fuller focus on inbound marketing services (and software). This too is complementary, but not with the brand of Doz, as Sarah alluded to. There's obvious confusion and brand dilution of Moz that can come as a result, and it's our duty to protect our trademark.

I think it's important to have this context. It feel into our lap with no other option than the action we took, we didn't seek this out. We've taken every step to be transparent into why, and hope, still, that we can resolve this in a civilized manner. I've spent the past 8 years of my life doing startups, the last thing we want to do is derail a startup from their mission.

I'm slightly biased, but likely your best starting point is the Beginner's Guide by SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Amazingly well-produced, and covers all of the basics -- without any of the snake oil. The SEO industry gets a bad wrap (most times, rightfully so) but once you parse out all of the shit, there's some great stuff out there.

Hope that's helpful.

I haven't heard anything that suggests that. In fact, most medical professionals suggest a morning workout for increased energy and better sleep patterns.

I've tried going with and without food before the gym, but settled on without. I feel more alert and less sluggish when I don't eat before working out.

If you're strength training, you may run into issues though.

I can't talk about my time machine, sadly. :)

Like I said in the 3rd paragraph of the post. "Of course, I'm not speaking literally."

I titled this post in this way because it really does make you feel like the day is extended by two more hours. Not literally, I'm taking about psychologically, which is often just as valuable.

I swear by morning workouts. It's just so much more efficient than evenings. When you're tightly scheduled in the morning you're forced to workout efficiently. A good workout isn't necessarily a long one -- high intensity is what matters.

Like Sharkweek said (awesome), the energy it gives you to start your day is amazing. It carries me to lunch with plenty of adrenaline flowing.

I also had difficulty falling asleep when I worked out in the evenings.

A 3am wake up time is crazy impressive, puts my 5am wake up to shame. Really like the recommendation of the review in the evenings.

I too have found that when I don't review and clearly lay out what I'd like to accomplish that day (or week), I tend to work just to work -- another post in and of itself. :)

Nice catch, updated!

I've been maintaining this schedule for the past year and consistently tweaked it before then to find the schedule that resulted in the greatest productivity -- this was it.

I would argue that it's dependent on what you're trying to accomplish. Sure, you learn a ton, but it still comes back to the issue of how well you can perform when you're trying to juggle a side project, a day job or whatever else you're working on.

Personally, I've found that when I do multiple large projects at once, I sacrifice performance on each. There is a tradeoff in what you learn, but I'm not sure it's an equal tradeoff.

#win

I too tend to work on side projects after work, and I usually do so at a coffee shop. I've tried to be productive at home, but always end up turning on the TV in the background or making dinner. Going straight to a coffee shop usually keeps me in the same state of mind that I was during work.

Downside, no dinner. :)

Thanks for the feedback, super helpful -- it's exactly the reason why we wanted to roll out in a private beta.

The short of it is that we're sacrificing a lot of this to save simplicity right off the bat. Frankly, it's the main competitive advantage to all of the many other tools out there, we believe. That said, there are a few of your requests that we're actively working on.

In particular, points 2 (add/edit progress bar), 2 (we're working on file attachements now), and 3.

Stuff like multi-user accounts and deal checkboxes are unlikely. We are looking to add reminders, however.

Again, thanks for the awesome feedback.

Nathan did a fine job of summing up why we built Stride in this post -- http://blog.strideapp.com/post/18976926872/origin-story

It's clear that the problem extends to small businesses and the like, we just want to make it clear that we didn't build Stride for salespeople. The app is too simple for their use, and that's what we wanted.

The idea is to tie in Freshbooks, Mailchimp, Rapportive and other integrations as we move forward, to help round out what small business and freelancers need.

We just set up a beta invite for all the HN folks, go ahead and use hackernews when signing up.

There's a difference between copying piece by piece and re-invention, as wpietri points out.

You're right, I should have linked directly to the Economist from the image -- updated. There's a source denoted in the bottom left corner of the image, thought that would suffice.

I'm not in the traffic business, I'm just interested in the trends of the industry.

You're right, edited. Fuck SOPA/PIPA and internet regulation.

That's all we're saying for now. More to come very soon, though. :)

Such an awesome event!