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Debt vs Equity - A Balance
Should a business raise money through selling equity or incurring debt? Debt financing may have more long-term financial benefits than equity financing. With equity financing, investors will be entitled to profits, and if you sell the...
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Customer Segments and the Target Market
What are customer segments? What is the target market? Target marketing focuses on people most likely to purchase your product or service. Segmentation looks at your entire target market and divides consumers into more specific groups...
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Culture as Organizational Communication
What is Culture as Organizational Communication?
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Contributing Intellectual Property for Equity
When do investors or founders contribute intellectual property to a startup in exchange for an ownership or equity interest? When the company is formed, the founders are typically issued common stock in the company in exchange for the...
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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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Common and Preferred Shares
What is the difference between Common shares and Preferred Shares? The main difference between preferred and common stock is that preferred stock gives no voting rights to shareholders while common stock does. Preferred shareholders have...
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Class FF Stock
What is Class FF Stock? FF Preferred Stock is essentially common stock with a twist that allows it to be converted to preferred stock. Issued to a founder, it typically can only be converted to the round of preferred stock being sold at...
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Business Plan - Appendix
What should be included in the Appendix to the business plan? In general, here are some of the documents you might think to include in your business plan appendix: Charts, graphs, or tables that supplement information from other sections...
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Business Permits and Occupational Licenses
What are Business Permits and when do you need one? What are Occupational Licenses, and when are theyr required to operate a business? A business license is a legal document that allows you to start a business, maintain your business, or...
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Biases and Errors in Decision Making
What are some common biases and errors in Deicsion Making? here are a plethora of cognitive biases, also known as subconscious errors, that have been studied by psychologists, and it is important to understand that each individual will...
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What is a Cottage Industry_
What is a Cottage Industry? A cottage industry is a small manufacturing business that is owned and operated by an individual or a family, typically operating out of a home rather than a purpose-built facility. Cottage industries are...
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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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Theories of Group Formation
What are the primary theories of Group Formation? This article throws light on the four important theories of group formation, i.e, (1) Propinquity Theory, (2) Homan's Theory, (3) Balance Theory, and (4) Exchange Theory.
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Steps in the Incorporation Process
What are the Steps in the Incorporation Process? Incorporation generally entails filing the articles of incorporation, naming a registered agent, and receiving the charter or certificate or incorporation.
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Process Management - Explained
What is Process Management? Business process management is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to...
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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...
Curated Video
Aim for the Target
Coach Socrates and Miss Palomine review the procedure for aiming at a target. They then practice rolling a ball at a target.
Curated Video
Rewriting Polynomial Expressions by Factoring
In this lesson, students will learn how to rewrite polynomial expressions by factoring to simplify common factors. They will develop their skills in identifying the greatest common factor and using it to rewrite the expression.
Debunked
English Phrases That We Get Wrong Everyday!
We've all been saying them, and we've all been wrong!
One Minute History
172 - Genetic Modification - One Minute History
Genetic Modification (GM) is the process of altering the genetic material in an organism by introducing changes to its DNA. In 1973 researchers Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen successfully inserted a foreign gene into a bacterium. By the...
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Specialization & Division of Labor
The video “Specialization and Division of Labor” discusses the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and division of labor and explains the role of the assembly line in production.
Weird History
The Real Life Breaveheart
We all know that historical movies can be inaccurate. Sometimes, they get historical figures completely wrong – for example, Pocahontas was a child when she met John Smith, and so was Isabella of France when William Wallace was alive....
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Spain and Portugal
Spain and Portugal discovers the similarities and differences between Spain and Portugal.
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Great Expectations Part I: From Humble Beginning to High Society
A video overview of part I of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. Using excerpts from the 1946 version of the movie, this video introduces the main characters and explores the key events in part I. We meet Pip and his family,...