Getting Started With Squidoo

Squidoo was started by the Original Squid, Seth Godin. Nearly ten years ago, Seth founded Yoyodyne, which originated the idea of permission marketing online. After Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo, he served as VP Direct Marketing for Yahoo for about a year. In 2000, Godin focused full-time on his career as an acclaimed public speaker, an author and a blogger. Seven of Seth's books have been bestsellers somewhere around the world, and his blog has been picked as the best business blog by several leading publications. Seth's head is the most recognizable author icon in business. Yes, his head.

Editor-in-Chief: Megan Casey. Megan is a founding member and the Editor in Chief of Squidoo. Before starting Squidoo, Megan spent 6 years in book publishing, most recently at the Portfolio business books imprint of Penguin Group, USA. Megan is now widely regarded as one of the most inspiring community leaders online (and, irrelevantly, the youngest). She lives in Redwood City, CA.

Corey Brown is COO of Squidoo, and one of the original intern members selected by Seth Godin to help him architect Squidoo's platform in 2005. Corey was the founder and CEO of Solutions Factory, a cutting edge web strategy, custom content, design and development firm based in the Washington, DC metro area. Corey advised companies such as Raytheon Corporation, Time Warner Cable and Columbia Energy Group on a wide range of web-based initiatives.

During the crazy, make-money-later 90's, Corey managed to run a highly profitable web division of Another Universe, where he designed and lead development on a contextual commerce platform and lead business development to secure e-commerce partnerships with The Sci-Fi Channel, Marvel Entertainment, and Sony Pictures.

Corey is a geek for wireframes, whiteboards, CSS and jQuery, and has been staring at code for hours on end since the 1980s. To balance it out, he's living out his plan to never grow old by goofing off with his wife and daughters, catching every single "kid" movie (no matter how bad) and running a school of rock for middle schoolers. He's even managed to lay down a pretty groovin' bass line once or twice.

Gil Hildebrand turned one of the most tragic events of his life, Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent chaos in his hometown of New Orleans, into a positive transition to New York City (more recently, Boulder) and a role as Squidoo's Chief Engineer. Prior to Katrina, Gil ran a successful New Orleans-based computer consulting agency, working on a wide variety of software and hardware projects including the design and installation of a wireless communications network for a fleet of tugboats. Gil also founded and led the development of a company that develops hiring management software for hospitals and other large institutions.Gil is passionate about and contributes to open source projects like MySQL, Maatkit, and Tarzan. In addition, he is instrumental in leading Squidoo's ventures into cloud computing.

Board members: Tom Cohen and Lisa Gansky. Over the last 20 years, Tom has advised a variety of companies in the traditional and new media worlds on financial and strategic matters. His clients have included Time Life, Time Inc., The New York Times, "NBC", Martha Stewart Living and Rolling Stone magazine. Tom has also worked with Internet companies such as Yoyodyne, E-Exchange, and Medcast. He has served as a Special Venture Partner with Flatiron Partners , a leading internet focused venture capital fund. Prior to his work in the Internet, Tom spent four years acting as Chief Executive Officer of the New York based brokerage firm of Herzfeld and Stern. Lisa is a marketect & entrepreneur with a strong interest in building teams & breaking the edges of formerly happy business models. Most recently, she was co-founder and CEO of Ofoto , and GM of Eastman Kodak's Digital Imaging Services division. In addition to her roles at Ofoto and Kodak, she serves on the boards of The Jane Goodall Institute and Dos Margaritas. In the nineties Lisa was CEO of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site and portal. When GNN was acquired by America Online in 1995, she continued on as VP of Internet properties and services, overseeing Webcrawler, GNN, AOL online advertising and e-commerce.

Designer and Advisor Red Maxwell is Founder and President of onramp Branding, an unconventionally audacious design and marketing boutique based in North Carolina. A three time winner of the London International Advertising Awards, he has developed major brand introductions for Danone Foods, Foster's Brewing Company and Planters LifeSavers. Red is also a pioneer of internet marketing and has launched online sites and promotions for Hanes, Sara Lee, Accenture and Yahoo! Prior to the glamorous world of geek marketing, Red started the in-house advertising design and photography departments at Polo Ralph Lauren.

Contributing Designer and former Ninjtern, Sahadeva Hammari, was responsible for some of our coolest badges and art.

Our logo, and much of our crucial early design, is the work of Aaron Sagray. Aaron is Creative Director and owner of Feverish, a strategic design and marketing firm that helps small and medium businesses develop uniquely practical tools to successfully sell their products and services.