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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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Board Observer Rights and Dedicated Board Seats
What are Board Observer Rights? What are Dedicated Board Seats? A board observer is someone who has the right to attend board meetings, but not to vote or participate in board discussions. A board member is someone who has the legal and...
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Authorized Shares
What are Authorized Shares of a company? Authorized shares are the maximum number of shares a company is allowed to issue to investors as laid out in its articles of incorporation. Outstanding shares are the actual shares issued or sold...
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Voting Rights - Preferred Shares
What are Voting Rights of Preferred Shares? Preferred typically have no voting rights, whereas common stockholders do. Preferred stockholders may have the option to convert shares to common shares but not vice versa. Preferred shares may...
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Protective Provisions - Term Sheet
What are Protective Provisions in a Term Sheet? Protective provisions are terms that allow preferred shareholders to veto or block specific corporate actions. Protective provisions can help protect the interests of minority shareholders...
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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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Management Information Rights - Preferred Shareholders
What are Management Information Rights of Preferred Shareholders? Information Rights - A preferred shareholder may get special rights to information. This could include the ability to more closely monitor board and executive activity in...
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Liquidation Preference and Follow-On Financing
What is a Liqudiation Preference? How does a liquidation preference affect follow-ong financing rounds of equity investment? A liquidation preference provision determines the order in which investors get paid back after a liquidity...
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Dancing for Fitness
Dr. Algae explains that dance can be a rigorous form of aerobic exercise and fun, too. He describes the many benefits of exercising through dance.
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Marcel Danesi - Teachers Make a Difference - Professor Gianrenzo Clivio
Marcel Danesi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, was born in Lucca, Italy. He was professor of semiotics and anthropology at Victoria College, University of Toronto, he directs the semiotics and communication theory programs. Danesi also holds...
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Against Reification
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) argues that we need to move beyond reification of abstract concepts and recognize intentionality.
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Far Transfer
Ben Nelson (Minerva) speaks passionately about the importance of developing the appropriate cognitive tools for students.
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Universal Education
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) reminisces on the personal importance of accessible, high-level university education.
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A Mainstream Tale
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) describes her experience as a hard of hearing child being placed in a local public school and the effect that it had on her.
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A Teacher's Impact
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) details how his life was profoundly affected by Mr. Jensen, his high school English teacher.
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Bill Stokoe's Legacy
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes her early experience with transformative sign language linguist Bill Stokoe.
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A Slippery Slope
Ben Nelson (Minerva) describes how as the modern university increasingly moves from the broader goal of intellectual development to mere “knowledge dissemination”, it descends a slippery slope to irrelevance.
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Embodiment
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes how sign language might afford new perspectives on the notion of linguistic embodiment.
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In the Shadow of The West
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes his personal experiences of growing up in Asia while being disproportionately affected by Western cultural, philosophical and economic considerations.
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This AI Determines Your Grades | A-Levels + IB Scores 2020
Had your final exams cancelled because of COVID? Don't worry, this algorithm will just predict your final grades instead.
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Ranking Machine Learning Methods | Machine Learning Tier List
Today, we'll be ranking machine learning methods based on the extremely subjective metric of how much I use them in my research.
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Life After My ADHD Diagnosis: Two Years Later
It's been two years since I've been diagnosed with ADHD. Let's talk about it.
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How Is AI Used In Schools?
From automated grading to personalized coursework, this week we're talking about how artificial intelligence is used in schools!