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Business Setup - Employee and Intellectual Property Matters
When setting up a business, what are the major Employee and Intellectual Property Matters that must be addressed? n important part of your intellectual property strategy is implementing best practices in the area of employee policies and...
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Business Incubator
What is a Business Incubator? A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services starting with management training 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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Angel and Venture Capital Investments
What are Angel and Venture Capital Investments? Venture Capitalist vs. Angel Investor: What's the difference? Venture capitalists are business professionals who invest money into startups on behalf of a risk capital company (they use...
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Venture Capital
What is Venture Capital? Venture capital is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or...
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Stakeholder Analysis
What is Stakeholder Analysis? Stakeholder analysis in conflict resolution, business administration, environmental health sciences decision making,[1] industrial ecology, public administration, and project management is the process of...
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Special Employee Provisions - Term Sheet
What are the Special Employee Provisions in a Term Sheet? The parties often negotiate numerous employee-related provisions into the term sheet. These provisions serve as control mechanisms to either incentivize current management or...
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Public Offering - Exiting a Business
What is a Business Exit Event? How is a Public Offering a business exit event? An Exit Event is an event where founders and early investors can sell their interest in a company for cash. An exit can be an initial public offering (IPO) or...
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Preferred Stock - Liquidation Preference
What is a liquidation preferenc in preferred stock? A liquidation preference is a clause in a contract that dictates the payout order in case of a corporate liquidation. Typically, the company's investors or preferred stockholders get...
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Organizational Fit
What is organizational fit? An individual fits in an organization when their values and beliefs align with those of the organization. That is the individual fits within the organization's culture.
Music Matters
How to Harmonize Repeated Notes in Both the Top and Bottom Parts - Music Composition
This music composition lesson presents four bars of repeated notes at the top and bottom of the texture. He then explains how to harmonise all the repeated notes, generating an engaging range of harmonic colour and well structured...
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The US and the ICC, Part I
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UC San Diego) discusses American attitudes regarding the International Criminal Court.
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Science vs. Politics
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses some of the differences between science and politics.
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Neuroscience and Self-Incrimination
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes how she uses neuroscience as a lens to better examine the original purpose of a law.
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The Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Philosopher Scott Soames (USC) gives us a brief introduction to Gottlob Frege and the origins of analytic philosophy.
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Frege and Functions
Philosopher Scott Soames (USC) traces the origins of our modern computer age to Gottlob Frege’s application of functions to logic.
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Too Much Transparency?
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how sometimes too much transparency in politics isn't actually good for us.
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Navy Environmentalist
Marine biologist Edie Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association relates the different twists and turns her research has taken, from bioluminescence expert to environmentalist.
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Modelling Politics
Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein describes how key aspects of his philosophical views of the social world can be directly applied to politics, explaining that to understand politics, it is vital to consider what led people to...
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Political Character
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts) uses the example of electoral control models to highlight problems with model-building.
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Endless Possibilities
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) discusses how he will never run out of interesting questions to explore involving both China and the rest of the world.
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Understanding Incentives
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD) discusses the importance of understanding the incentives of those who commit human rights abuses.
MarketWatch
What is student loan forbearance and is it right for you?
Student loan payments are set to resume in October after a three-year freeze and getting a forbearance means you could avoid paying for a little longer. But is that a good idea? Here's what you should know.
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ImageNet and The Challenge of Building Large Datasets
Turns out making large machine learning datasets is pretty hard. Let's look at how one has evolved over the years!