Parker Conrad

A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.

There is so much headache and hassle involved in starting a business or running a business.

College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.

I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.

The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.

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 Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks.

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.

The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.

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.

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.