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Discount Future Cash Flows - Business Valuation
What is the Discount Future Cash Flows Method of Business Valuation? Discounted cash flow (DCF) is a method of valuation used to determine the value of an investment based on its return in the future–called future cash flows. DCF helps...
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Diffusion of Innovations Theory
What is the Diffusion of Innovations Theory? Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. The theory was popularized by Everett Rogers in his book Diffusion of...
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Compensation within a Startup - Cash and Equity
How should you structure Compensation within a Startup? How much debt should the company incur? How much equity should the company sell? This may include incentives on top of a base salary, so that your employees do well financially as...
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Carveouts to Anti-Dilution Protections
Antidilution provisions protect investors from subsequent down rounds of investment. What are Carveouts to Anti-Dilution Protections? Anti-dilution provisions are clauses built into convertible preferred stocks to help shield investors...
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Build Up Method - Business Valuation
What is the Build Up Method of Business Valuation? In the "buildup method" valuation begins with the risk-free rate. The individual valuing the firm then makes the subjective determination of what percentage to add to the risk-free rate....
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Value of Dividends Method - Business Valuation
What is the Value of Dividends Method of Business Valuation? This method relies on the idea that a stock is only worth what it will provide to investors in future dividends. If a business does not currently distribute dividends, the...
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Participating Preferred Stock
What is Participating Preferred Stock? Participating preferred stock is preferred stock that provides a specific dividend that is paid before any dividends are paid to common stock holders, and that takes precedence over common stock in...
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Participating Convertible Preferred Stock
What is Participating Convertible Preferred Stock? A participating convertible preferred (PCP) share is a financial term referring to a security most often issued as part of a venture capital financing deal before a company experiences...
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What Is The Deepest A Human Can Dive?
What is the deepest dive a human can survive? It’s far deeper than you could even imagine! Join us on this journey into the depths of human survival.
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Earth’s Resources
Earth’s Resources explains the usefulness of Earth’s physical resources as raw materials for the man-made world by describing the usefulness of these resources.
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Exponential Growth and Decay
“Exponential Growth and Decay” will explain exponential variables and explain how to identify and calculate exponential growth and exponential decay.”
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Freedom and Social Justice
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes how egalitarian principles in Scandinavian societies might be said to provide greater freedom to their people .
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Collision Theory on Bond Formation and Reaction Rates
Explains how particles collide for a reaction to occur and how this process affects the rate of a reaction.
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Thinking like Galileo
Philosopher of science James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, describes how the common view that we have of Galileo ushering in the Scientific Revolution by dropping balls from the leaning tower of Pisa is profoundly incorrect, and...
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Great Expectations Part II: Becoming a Gentleman
A video overview of part II of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. Using excerpts from the 1946 version of the movie, we review important events and interactions in part II of the book. Pip has moved to London and is adjusting...
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The Peak-End Rule: 2 Things We Actually Remember
People tend to judge and remember experiences based on how they felt at the peak and at the end of it. This psychological phenomenon is known as the peak-end-rule. The model was first proposed by Barbara Fredrickson and Daniel Kahneman...
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The Statistics of Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, discusses Frank Drake's famous attempt to evaluate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life.
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Frank Drake's Agenda
SETI Institute astronomer Jill Tarter describes the thinking behind the famous Drake Equation, characterizing key aspects of our ignorance of the existence of alien civilizations
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The Listening Brain
Nobel Laureate David Politzer, Caltech, describes how understanding how and what we hear is much more complicated than most people - particularly physicists - think it is.
One Minute History
145 Keepers Of Time - One Minute History
Our ancestors looked to the heavens to record the passage of time. As civilizations emerged, the need to tell time in a consistent manner became essential. Ancient Egyptians used the shadow clock to separate morning from afternoon and...
One Minute History
147 The Great Inflation - One Minute History
From 1965 to 1982 a macroeconomic event known as “The Great Inflation” cast a shadow on the post-World War Two Global Monetary System. During this time, inflation rose from a rate of 1% a year, to its peak in 1980, of almost 15%. Jobs...
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Greater Rate
This video will discuss examples to compare proportional relationships (as a graph, as an equation, and as a table of values) to calculate which has the greater rate.
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Factors Affecting Enzyme Function
Factors Affecting Enzyme Function explains how changes in pH, temperature, and concentration levels can affect enzyme function.
Neuro Transmissions
I gave fake personality tests, and people believed it.
You seem like the kind of person who would watch this video. ...or are you? Don't believe everything people say about you. With the recent popularity of astrology, disinformation, and pseudoscience, you may be at risk of falling victim...