Words matter. These are the best Parker Conrad Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and, therefore, increase the likelihood of making a sale.
The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you’re entering information in by hand.
College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.
Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing with new employee onboarding, offer letters, and managing that – and we do it for free.
I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn’t work.
With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.
One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.
I was spending all my time at the ‘Crimson’ – like, 70 hours a week – and I didn’t go to class for, like, a year. I failed out of school. I had to leave Harvard, really, halfway through my tenure as the ‘Crimson’ managing editor. It was this incredibly humiliating and shocking experience.
One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.
I’m not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.
I don’t know anything about Amazon’s culture; I’ve never worked there.
There’s nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it’s even worse than if you fail.
If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.
The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There’s not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
I’m too old to understand Snapchat.
A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.
When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it’s a mixed blessing. While it’s a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.
The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.
Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting – particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.
I’ll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.
A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.
The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren’t HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
