Michal Magdziarz is the CEO of DeepCrawl, a cloud-based technical search engine optimization (SEO) platform helping brands accelerate growth and mitigate losses in organic search performance. With more than 15 years of experience in the SEO and web business sectors, Michal leads business strategy and growth at DeepCrawl. Since co-founding the company in 2011, DeepCrawl has expanded markets into the U.S. and signed on new customers including Intuit, Newsweek and Instacart. Michal holds a master’s in management from the University of Warsaw.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“we fully bootstrapped for the first two years. So you go through all the problems that you have with business, with cash, with learning new skills. When you start a business, you have to do everything, you have to be programmer, product person, salesman, marketing, just all in one, finance person, et cetera et cetera. With gone through all these phases trying to figure out the best way of dealing with things as we go through this journey”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation Book by Ikujiro Nonaka, Hiro Takeuchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi
- Organizational Physics – The Science of Growing a Business Book by Lex Sisney
Favourite Quote:
“The perfect design is not when you can add anything more, it’s when you cannot remove anything”
Recommended Online Resources:
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find the people you like working with, find problem that is interesting to you and enjoy the journey and enjoyed resolving the problem you have found”…[Listen for More]
More About Michal Magdziarz:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Michal Magdziarz:
- “all of us have grown experience as the company grew. And I am not sure if the experience I have now would be helpful at the very beginning of the company because at the beginning it was more important that I had programming skills for example which are not very useful now”
- “sometimes you may think if I did this differently that would of helped and would have sped up the development but it might be that you don’t think about something else that would have happened if you did what you thought was the right thing. It’s very difficult to predict the future based on changes in the past. It could have a completely different effect”
- “Everything is uncomfortable and comfortable at the same time. I face uncomfortable situations every week but then you kind of get used to it and uncomfortable becomes comfortable”
- “believing that it is possible and consistently getting there is the key”
- “you may fail a few times on the way but if you truly believe in your end goal eventually will get there”
- “if you can do anything you want you are not going to innovate. It’s the restrictions in how you go about it, how you make something within the constraints that’s what triggers true thinking and innovation. If you have everything available in the world then you don’t know what to do, there is no goal, there is knowledge objective. I truly believe the restrictions trigger innovation and the unknown future and the difficulties to get your business where you want to get drives your decisions and motivation to do what you do”
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