Grand Central | Accredited Investor Markets
Investors are inundated every day by purveyors of specific investment opportunities and would-be advisors who want to tell them where to invest their money. The result? At best, information overload that is not always correct. At worst, people with biases, whether intentional or not, competing to push their agenda on the investor. This problem is more severe for the accredited investor. The mission of AIMkts is to be the most trustworthy resource on the Internet for accredited investors who seek accurate and objective information about accredited investing. The Editorial Staff of AIMkts built this “Grand Central” resources page with the keen understanding that the typical accredited investor is busy person. To submit your website for potential inclusion in AIMkts’s Grand Central, send an email to info@accreditedinvestormarkets.com.
How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time - StumbleUpon
I admit it. When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors, sanctioned by the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, I laughed. I mean seriously, $50k to the winner of a game that requires no skill whatsoever? Absurd. Boy was I wrong. Rock-paper-scissors isn't just a silly game kids play or a way to decide who has to be the designated driver at parties. Males have a tendency to throw rock on their first try, inexperienced RPS players will subconsciously deliver the item that won previously, and paper is thrown least often, so use it as a surprise.
What’s A Startup? First Principles.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Everyone knows what a startup is for – don’t they? In this post we’re going to offer a new definition of why startups exist: a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. A Business ModelOk, but what is a business model? A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value. Or in English: A business model describes how your company makes money. Think of a business model as a drawing that shows all the flows between the different parts of your company. While this is a mouthful, it’s a lot easier to draw. Drawing A Business ModelLots of people have been working on how to diagram and draw a business. Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Template (At Stanford, Ann Miura-Ko and I have been working on a simplified Silicon Valley version of this model. But What Does a Business Model Have to Do With My Startup? Stay tuned.
Physics 20b: Introduction to Cosmology - Spring 2010 - Download free content from UC Irvine on iTunes - StumbleUpon
Collaboration Business Plan Template | Info-Tech Research Group
Access this Template/Policy by filling out your information below or by using your LinkedIn account. Already aMember? Login to get access. Not aMember? Sign up to get access. This template will help build a living social collaboration business plan for the organization. In addition to identifying roles and responsibilities, this template provides a framework in which to outline: Strategic and opportunity assessmentsRisk identificationProject recommendationsTechnology investments This tool is intended for both an IT and business audience.
Latin Mottos, Latin Phrases, Latin Quotes and Latin Sayings
A bene placito - At one's pleasureA capite ad calcem - From head to heelA cappella - In church [style] - i.e. Vocal music onlyA contrario - From a contrary positionA cruce salus - From the cross comes salvationA Deo et Rege - From God and the KingA fortiori - With yet stronger reasonA fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi - A precipice in front, wolves behind (between a rock and a hard place)A mari usque ad mare - From sea to sea (Motto of Canada)A mensa et thoro - From board and bed (legal separation)A pedibus usque ad caput - From feet to headA posse ad esse - From possibility to actualityA posteriori - From what comes after.
SaaS Metrics 2.0 - Detailed Definitions
Intro This page is a supplement to the the SaaS Metrics 2.0 blog post. It provides detailed definitions for each of the key metrics used in that post. Calculating LTV and CAC for a SaaS startup Unit Economics is a very powerful way to analyze the long term profitability of a SaaS business. I am often asked for the details of how to compute the various elements, such as CAC and LTV. CAC – Cost to Acquire a Customer CAC is defined as follows: There is a problem with using this formula in the early days, as you may several expensive people in the team that should scale to handle a far number of customers as you grow. Customer Lifetime If you start with a cohort of 100 customers and apply a constant churn rate every month, you’ll get an exponential decay, as shown in the following graph (which uses a 3% monthly churn rate): Mathematically this can be simplified to the following formula to find the average Customer Lifetime: Lifetime Value of Customer which can also be expressed as follows:
Mountains of Books Become Mountains - StumbleUpon
I thought I’d seen every type of book carving imaginable, until I ran across these jaw dropping creations by Guy Laramee. His works are so sculptural, so movingly natural in their form, they’ve really touched me. His works are inspired by a fascination with so-called progress in society: a thinking which says the book is dead, libraries are obsolete and technology is the only way of the future. His thoughts: “One might say: so what? See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK Carving into the discarded stacks of books, he has created fantastic, romantic landscapes which remind us that though our fascinations and the value we put on different ideas have changed, we as a species have not evolved that much. “Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. See more of his beautifully meditative works at guylaramee.com. Via: etoday.ru
