掐架！ ADP周二向竞争对手Zenefits发起诽谤诉讼
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创业公司Zenefits目前获得巨大胜利，北加州地区的美国地方法院驳回了ADP的诉讼。根据和解条款，ADP 声明它相信 Zenefits 软件的安全性不存在问题，而Zenefits 则表明ADP 没有不道德的行为。
持续数月之久的官司最终以和解告一段落。这场争端始于 6月。有着50年历史的老牌公司ADP在6月份切断了Zenefits 小型企业客户使用ADP工资单系统，停止与Zenefits共享数据。ADP 指出它切断 Zenefits 是出于安全考虑：zenefits没有做好个人身份识别信息的保护工作，如社会保障号码。
作为反击，Zenefits 在其发布的一篇博客文章中指责 ADP 切断服务是因为他们推出了一款具有竞争性的产品。随后ADP 起诉 Zenefits 及其创始人康拉德 · 帕克，并在同一天推出一个名为 Opum 的服务和zenefits竞争。今年7月，Zenefits 称ADP 的诉讼无关紧要，并呼吁对方撤诉。曾经参与庭审的人员，如一个法官在 9月份说到 ADP 明显没有证据表明zenefits诽谤，以及唯一的问题是"诉讼将是缓慢的死亡还是快速的死亡"。
如今在法庭上，法官支持 Zenefits。
我们很高兴在法律上取得了胜利，不过相比之下，我们是更欣慰的是现在可以继续前进，专注于服务我们的小企业客户，"康拉德说在一次新闻发布会上说道，"有时，这可能意味着与 ADP竞争，而其他时候也可能意味着与 ADP 的合作。不管在什么情况下，我们（Zenefits）的目标始终致力于使HR管理这一辛苦的工作变得更轻松更少痛苦。
"双方争论的核心是指控质疑我们的道德和诚信，"ADP 在 给techcrunch 的一封电子邮件中如是说，"这些（诚信和道德）对ADP来说意义重大， 也是我们（企业）文化的核心。我们衷心希望 Zenefits能收回他们发表的毫无根据的公开声明。如果他们满足我们这一需求，我们会撤回诉讼。
ADP Drops Lawsuit Against Human Resources Startup Zenefits
The legacy payroll company ADP on Tuesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against its quickly growing competitor, Zenefits.
In a major victory for the startup, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice. Per the terms of the settlement, ADP stated it has no reason to believe problems exist with the security of Zenefits software. Zenefits said on the record it had no reason to believe ADP is unethical.
The settlement brings a months-long legal battle to a close. The dispute began in June when ADP, a 50-year-old payroll company, cut off Zenefits small business clients who were sharing data with the cloud-based startup from ADP’s RUN payroll system. ADP stated that it blocked Zenefits due to security concerns because the company was not doing enough to protect personal identifying information, like Social Security Numbers.
Zenefits fired back with a blog post accusing ADP of cutting off the service because they were rolling out a competing product. ADP then sued Zenefits and its founder Parker Conrad, but on the same day launched a competing service called Opum. In July, Zenefits called ADP’s lawsuit frivolous and called for it to be dismissed. According to those in the courtroom, a judge in September said it was clear ADP had no defamation claim, and the only question was whether the “lawsuit will die a slow death or a fast death.”
Today in court, the judge sided with Zenefits.
“While we are gratified by this legal victory, we are more pleased that we now can move forward and focus on serving our small business customers,” Conrad said in a news release. “At times, this may mean competing with ADP, and at times, it may mean working with ADP. In either case, we at Zenefits are committed to making the hard work of administering HR as effortless and painless as possible.”
ADP said in a statement that the settlement would allow them to put the case with Zenefits behind them.
“At the core of our dispute were accusations that questioned our ethics and integrity,” ADP said in an email to TechCrunch. “These are meaningful values to ADP and core to our culture. All we have ever wanted was for Zenefits to retract the baseless public statements they made. We withdrew the lawsuit after Zenefits satisfied that demand.”
来源：TC
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最酷的CEO们是怎样工作的？一家公司的CEO到底酷不酷？看看他的办公室就能知道。当然，很多酷公司的CEO并没有办公室，而是和员工一起在开放工位上办公。
但现在，新的办公风潮是，CEO不仅没有办公室，连固定工位都没有。据 Fortune 报道，众筹公司 Indiegogo 在旧金山有130位员工，包括实习生在内，每个人都有自己的工位——除了他们的CEO Slava Rubin。
他甚至都不把电脑带到公司，Rubin 在手机上处理公务，开会也都是很员工一边闲逛一边开。这让他能更好的了解公司里每个员工都在干什么，也方便他随时参与到员工的讨论中。
Rubin 并不是特例。Meetup.com、HubSpot 这两家公司的 CEO 也没有工位。HubSpot 的 CTO Dharmesh Shah 有自己的工位，但却经常要把自己的位置让出来给还没有获得工位的新员工坐。“这可以让公司的员工多了解我一点，比如我并不是一个只会在半夜给大家写邮件，在发布会的时候上台演讲的人。”他告诉 Fortune。
地图服务商 Mapbox 的高管也都没有工位，他们有时候在公司餐厅工作，有时候就在沙发上。他们的 CEO Eric Gundersen 表示，自己在哪里打开电脑哪里就是他的工位。
无工位办公并不是只是一种形式，而是真正能给公司的业务带来好处。前几周，Eric 听到几位员工在讨论解决卫星图片清晰度的问题，一位员工说他在一张照片上数清山坡上的羊。正好在前几天，Eric 坐到了公司销售员工附近，他了解到销售团队正在和新西兰一家地产商谈一个单子，于是他把这两个团队叫到了一起。
很快，在那个团队的帮助下，Mapbox 的销售团队在几个小时后就拿下了那个客户。作为 CEO，Eric 应该了解公司的一切，但如果每次都要开会才能知道进展，效率就会低很多。“如果你经常在员工里走动的话，有时候就会有这些运气。”他说。
来源：pingwest 作者：朱旭冬
美国招聘网站Phenom People获得600万美元A轮融资
Phenom People成立于，总部位于美国霍舍姆。
该公司为一个招聘网站平台，他们通过传统的指纹和IP来收集用户的信息并且智能的匹配用户和工作的相关度。
本次领投的公司是Sierra Ventures。
Phenom People, A Customizable Job Application Service, Raises $6M
It can seem at times that job application sites for companies are a black hole and impossible to navigate. That’s why Phenom People, a service that customizes company job search pages for individuals, wants to try to fix that experience.
The company, which said it raised $6 million in venture financing led by Sierra Ventures, basically keeps tabs on who is visiting a company’s application page — like what jobs they view and where they come in from — and builds custom job search pages for them. For example, if someone has viewed a couple of jobs for a marketing role, they might be shown other roles that they might not have thought of when they visit a second time.
“We collect [a lot of data] to understand candidate intent — why is this here, what is it looking for,” CEO Mahe Bayireddi said. “So every time they come back we give a unique experience based on previous behavior, intent and persona. It’s all so we can give them a unique employment value proposition based on what they’re looking for.”
Recruiters also use the service to find potential recruits that might be good fits, which isn’t necessarily obvious if recruiters are just paying attention to the applications coming in. If a potential recruit is coming back three or four times and browsing the site, it may show that they are more interested in the job than someone just simply applying for jobs point-blank, Bayireddi said.
Phenom People uses traditional fingerprinting and IP tools in order to understand who that person is and collect data on them. It then builds an interest graph of sorts for that person, customizing the page for a company’s application site on the spot.
Part of the justification for a service like this to exist, Bayireddi said, is that while there are other services for searching jobs like LinkedIn, many inevitably end up back on the company’s home job search page. They might not actually apply for a job there, but might be coming back to the site regularly from other kinds of job search services, which offers additional data.
“The person can come from Google, look for a job, leave, and after 15 minutes come in from LinkedIn, and then leave, and then come in from Indeed,” he said. “People think it’s just from Indeed, but no, it’s multiple steps. They might even visit GlassDoor. Every track is basically managed by us to understand where they are coming from.”
So how is this different from a service like Greenhouse, or other job application services? Those services are simply backend systems that serve as a supply chain of sorts for recruiters, Bayireddi said. That, of course, doesn’t mean that they will always be that — if the market for something like this is as large as Bayireddi believes, it’s certainly in the realm of possibility that a company like other recruiting startups would begin doing something similar. And of course, there are ways to apply directly through LinkedIn, which might render a service like this moot.
This is Bayireddi’s first round of financing, but the company has been around for around four years, teaching him to basically run a lean an operation as a company can get. And that’s part of the reason the startup is going to remain in Philadelphia, as well, he said.
“That’s part of the unique nature of how we did it,” he said. “We primarily lean toward less costs, that’s a good attribution being in Philadelphia. We have no intention to move to Silicon Valley. Some of the funds asked us if you can move to Silicon Valley, our thought process is, ‘hey, we want to sit here because we want to build a community around here,’ and that’s important.”
来源：techcrunch.com
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在线人力资源服务平台Allay获得340万美金种子轮投资
Allay成立于2014年，总部位于旧金山。Allay为一家在线人力资源和福利平台网站。需要保险和福利的公司可以通过此在线平台可以完成无纸化劳动合同签订并为员工制定包括医保在内的多项保险服务。本次领投的公司为BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners，以及Sandbox Industries, 500 Startups, Arnold Capital和多位独立天使投资人参投。
评语：看起来国外学习之风也是非常盛行啊~~都在学习zenefits
Allay, a San Francisco-based HR management platform provider, raised $3.4m in seed funding.
The round was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners with participation from Sandbox Industries, 500 Startups, AngelPad’s Thomas Korte, Ryan Holmes, Geoff Entress, Arnold Capital and others.
The company intends to use the funds to expand in the U.S. health insurance market.
Founded in 2014 by Julien Emery and Andrew Draper, Allay provides provides an HR platform which enables employers to onboard new hires, sign documents, select and enroll in the most relevant benefit plans for each individual and/or group, and provide HR and benefits administration and compliance. The solution can work with any broker that an employer wants. In addition, the company is also building out its own preferred partner broker network to ensure employers are getting trustworthy broker/advisors.
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Soild：助你实现自动化会议，把会议的作用发挥到极致
来源：猎云网 （编译：圈圈）
Solid，一款全新的针对会议的产品；它能帮你处理会前、会中以及会后的所有问题。这款产品是由Wisembly的工作团队推出，Solid尤其适合小型会议和小公司。
“我们早前就有推出Solid的想法。在我们成立Wisembly时，就致力于为规模在10到15人的会议提供服务。”Wisembly的联合创始人Romain David告诉我说，“但是现在，我们还想为规模更小的公司解决开会问题。”
所以，Wisembly现在推出了两款不同的产品。一款是专为大公司服务的，而另一款就是Solid。这家法国公司并不是想把公司的重心转移到小公司这边，而只是单纯地想增加这项服务罢了。这家初创企业特意为这款产品取了个不同的名字，以免Wisembly的现有用户会搞不清楚状况。
“大多时候，人们不能为每场会议都做好充分准备，有时都没有时间为最后一场会议做好会议报告。”David说道。既然这样的话，那你要怎么做才能通过Solid实现自动化会议呢？第一步，登陆你的Google或者Office 365账户；这样Solid便会从你的日历上获取你所有会议日程的信息，而且它会自动忽略日历上记录的其它日程。
接下来，你就可以看看你最近的会议是在什么时候，提前为这些会议做好准备，并确认一下你已经准备了什么以及还有什么需要准备。下图就是Solid的主要界面：
你可以提前在Solid上增加目标和日程，每项议程项目都包括笔记，每条笔记里都能包括可行动项目。你可以通过拖放项目来给它们重新排序，排放顺序有其严格的逻辑结构。Solid是专为会议设计，所以它要比一份空的Word文件更具条理性。
一旦你开始开会，你就可以使用Solid上的笔记，并把文件添加上去；在这之后，就没你什么事了，你只需注意会议该什么时候结束。会议结束后，你可以把报告发送到Slack、Evernote或是邮箱里。当然，你的所有报告也可在Solid上使用。
最后，你可以审查一些关于你会议的文件，确认一下随着时间的推移，会议的效率有没有提高。目前，Solid只有免费的公测版本，但这家公司正在努力让它可适用于iOS应用上。
Source:TC
Solid Automates Your Meetings To Get The Most Out Of Them
Meet Solid, a brand new service to help you with your meetings, before, during and after they take place. Coming from the team behind Wisembly, Solid is perfect for smaller meetings and smaller companies.
“We’ve had the idea for Solid for a while. When we launched Wisembly, we were working on meetings with 10 or 15 people,” co-founder Romain David told me. “But we wanted to address smaller meetings in smaller companies.”
So Wisembly now works on two separate products — Wisembly for bigger companies, and Solid. The French company isn’t pivoting, it’s just adding a new additional service. The startup picked a different name to avoid the confusion for existing Wisembly users.
“Most of the time, people don’t prepare for meetings, and there is no meeting report from the last one,” David said. How do you automate meetings? First, you sign up using your Google or Office 365 account. Solid will fetch all your meetings from your calendar. Other events in your calendar will be ignored.
Then, you can see your upcoming meetings, work on them in advance, see what you’ve already done and more. Here’s the main interface of Solid:
You can add goals and an agenda in advance. Each agenda item can contain notes. Each note can contain actionable items. You can reorder everything by dragging and dropping, and everything is organized in this rigid structure. Because it’s specifically made for meetings, it’s less daunting than an empty Word document.
Once you start the meeting, you can take notes, add documents and keep an eye on the clock. At the end of the meeting, you can export a report in Slack, Evernote or an email. And of course, all your reports stay available in Solid.
Finally, you can view some stats about your meetings to see if you’re becoming more efficient over time for example. For now, it’s a free public beta. The company is working on an iOS app.
陈一鸣 （Chade-Meng Tan 'Jolly Good Fellow' ）10月31日正式从谷歌退休说到Chade-Meng Tan 陈一鸣你可能不知道是谁，但是你看到这几张照片，你就知道他的故事了~~
他是谷歌的107号员工，他的抬头是“jolly good fellow ”
[caption id="attachment_9782" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chade-Meng Tan[/caption]
所有去谷歌的名人跟CEO合影不是必须的，而跟Chade-Meng Tan合影变得非常重要了，这样可以证明你是个名人·~：） 开个玩笑，大家可以去搜索下Chade-Meng Tan在谷歌的故事。
这是一位华人~：）
其在linkedin的自我介绍：
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chade-meng-tan/0/11b/bb7
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I am a Google pioneer, an award-winning engineer, a New York Times bestselling author, a thought leader, and a philanthropist. My work has been nominated 7 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I met three US Presidents. The Dalai Lama gave me hugs. I spoke at the White House, the UN and TED. Barack Obama said he remembered seeing me on the front page of the New York Times. I had dinner with President Jimmy Carter, drank tea with the King of Bhutan, and sat next to the Prince of Monaco at a movie. Mom said I made her proud.
My career goal is to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime. That's all.
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Retiring from Google
"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Not me anymore."
Friends,
I would like to let you know that I'm retiring from Google.
A few months ago, after I celebrated my 15th anniversary as a Googler (which is my version of the "Google 15", since I never gained 15 pounds as a Googler), and as I looked forward to an impending 45th birthday (yes, I am that old, dammit), it occurred to me that I don't have that many years left and I really need to focus on my two most important priorities: mastering inner peace, and creating the conditions for world peace in my lifetime. Therefore, there are two things I urgently need to give more of my time to. The first is my meditation practice; I need the practice (3 hours a day, at least) to work towards mastery of mind. The second is to devote more of my time to the two charities I help lead, both of which have the potential to create the conditions for world peace in one lifetime. One is the One Billion Acts of Peace campaign, which has the potential to spark a massive global movement to solve the biggest problems facing humanity. The other is the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI, pronounced "silly"), which has the potential to massively scale inner peace, inner joy and compassion worldwide. I can't think of any work more important for me to do, and given the finite time I have left, I want to devote most of my time to these two priorities. In a sense, I'm following the example of one of my greatest heroes, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who meditates for 4 hours a day and spends most of the rest of his time benefiting humanity. I feel like I can only do a small fraction of what he does, but he inspires me to take this path. After a lot of careful consideration, I came to the conclusion that now is the time for me to make this major decision.
Of course, this decision is bitter-sweet for me. I'm excited by the opportunity to spend my time and energy on my most important priorities, but at the same time, it is very hard to leave Google. I absolutely love Google. I love the company, I love the culture, I love being a Googler and, most of all, I love my fellow Googlers. I'm tremendously grateful to Larry and Sergey for hiring me (and then forgetting to fire me for 15 whole years), to Eric for being a friend and role model, to the all wonderful people I've worked with (way too many to name individually), and to my string of great managers, especially my current manager, Karen May, the best manager I've ever had. To all of you who had the misfortune of being my boss, so sorry, and thank you. And to all my co-workers: you are all amazing, and I'm so going to miss you.
My last day at Google will be 31st October 2015, a few days after I turn 45.
Frequently Answered Questions
Q: Why do you need to meditate for 3 hours a day?
A: In a way, I see myself as the meditation equivalent of a full time musician, artist or athlete, who should primarily be practicing for hours a day. I think the minimum practice time for a full time musician or artist or athlete or meditator should be 3 hours a day. Specifically, I will be working towards mastering a meditation practice known as Jhana, which culminates in the perfection of serenity, concentration and joy. In that sense, I'm going pro.
Q: Why are One Billion Acts of Peace and SIYLI so important to you?
A: One Billion Acts of Peace is a campaign designed to solve the biggest problems facing humanity, such as hunger, poverty, oppression, injustice, and environmental destruction. Those problems are so big that the only way to solve them is to galvanize all the citizens of the world to work together. One Billion Acts of Peace has the potential to spark that massive global movement. We already have the active involvement of 14 Nobel Peace laureates and hundreds of volunteers, inspired 6.6 million acts of peace from more than a million people, gained the support of some giants in the corporate world such as Google and Wells Fargo, and 7 Nobel Peace laureates (led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu) have nominated us for the Nobel Peace Prize. AND, we are only just getting started! While Billion Acts focuses on action for the world, SIYLI takes a complimentary approach of spreading inner peace, inner joy and compassion worldwide. SIYLI's vision is, "Every leader in the world is wise and compassionate, thus creating the conditions for world peace." It does so, for example, by delivering the Search Inside Yourself course worldwide, including in organizations such as Google and the United Nations. Search Inside Yourself has been endorsed by the Dalai Lama, former President Jimmy Carter, and many other top global leaders. In its short existence, SIYLI has already deeply touched the lives of many thousands of people. Either one of the two approaches has the potential to create the conditions for world peace in one lifetime. Combined, boom! I really can't think of anything more important I should be doing, besides meditating for 3 hours a day.
Q: What do you do for those charities?
A: I'm Chairman of SIYLI and Co-Chair of One Billion Acts of Peace. In both roles, I expect to continue to live this famous Gandhi quote: "There they go. I must run and catch up with them, because I am their leader!"
Q: Shall I donate lots of money to those charities?
A: Yes.
Q: Are you sad to leave Google?
A: Yes, very much so. When I made the decision to retire, it felt like the most logical thing in the world to do. But after I informed my manager Karen May of the decision (she is sad, but very understanding and supportive) and started putting things in motion, I started becoming very sad. Being a Googler has been an integral part of me for 15 years, and I feel that part of me is dying. While struggling with that sadness, I made another important decision: I decided not to die as a Googler. If I do not die as a Googler, then my leaving Google is absolutely unavoidable, it is just a matter of time, and therefore, this sadness that I experience is also totally unavoidable, it is just a matter of time. Since it is entirely a matter of time, I decided it should be at the most logical time, which is now.
Q: Does turning 45 have anything to do with it?
A: Actually, yes. There is a part of me who thinks that retiring on or a few days after my 45th birthday is kinda cool. :) Plus, the older I get, the more keenly aware I am of my mortality and the importance of fulfilling my mission while I'm still alive (because after I die, it gets harder for me to do stuff).
Q: What are you going to do with all that free time?
A: I don't expect to have very much free time at all. Between 3 hours a day of meditation, One Billion Acts of Peace, SIYLI, working on my next book (currently planned for publication in May 2016), plus my other responsibilities (including being Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and advisor to various startups), there's not going to be a lot of free time left. I plan for most or all of my free time to go to my family. I hope someday to have lots of actual free time, before I die.
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