Parker Conrad Quotes
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Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks.
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Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.
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Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.
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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.
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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.
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Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.
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Despite the volume of 'junk' mail that students receive each year, companies that have an interest in selling their product to students say direct mailing is a key to their success.
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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.
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It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.
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The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
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With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.
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College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.
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There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.
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There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology.
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The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.
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I'm too old to understand Snapchat.
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I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.
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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.
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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.
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At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
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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.
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A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.
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I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.