Founder & CEO, Next Mountain · July 19Can a board of directors overrule a 51% holder of equity?You know the scene in The Social Network where Eduardo meets with Peter Theil’s attorney for the first time. The attorney casually mentions that Mark’s equity will be over 50% ownership, and Eduardo, sagely, says, “That’s good because…
Yet another iteration to this question, which is clearly one of the most commonly asked on Quora: Why does the US give ‘financial support’ for Israel? The US government has decided that spending in excess of $120 billion per year to promote its geopolitical goals is worth it. And the $3 billion of credits that…
Which extra certification courses will benefit mechanical engineering students in the long-run? In your opinion, what would be the average initial startup cost for product development?I have worked on designing and developing over 1,000 consumer products for startups and small businesses, so it has become quite clear what it costs for each individual type of…
For image classification tasks, a common choice for convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is repeated blocks of convolution and max pooling layers, followed by two or more densely connected layers. The final dense layer has a softmax activation function and a node for each potential object category. As an example, consider the VGG-16 model architecture,…
It is superficially accurate until a lot more research and background uncovers the truth of just how full of bull-schitzen the film Cowspiracy really is. Then it’s undoubtedly one of the most inaccurate films I’ve ever had to watch. The whole premise about the film was very single-minded and quite shallow with only one simple…
If someone were to claim 17,000 dollars in unemployment benefits while working full time, what should they do? Turn themselves in? What would they need to expect? Jail time? Can they pay it back to avoid jail? Mathematically this shouldn’t be possible. Even with the added $600 from the Federal Government most states have had…
What does “PUA benefit pay date in progress” mean? I filed for PUA benefits and I received this message. What are the key trends in shipping and mailing I should be thinking about this year?2020 brought changes to nearly every part of every business, including shipping and mailing. To better understand the trends we were…
They don’t get the point. They don’t see the reason to do it. Believe you me, all activities in the universe are triggered by energy. Energy is ignited by a thought, which comes from the MIND. The more intense the energy, the bigger the activity. Thoughts are powerful because they become ‘things’. For someone to…
Scientists dream about doing great things, Engineers do them. Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847-October 18, 1931)Thomas Edison is probably most famous for being the inventor of the light bulb, but over his years as an engineer Edison also invented or influenced many other things that we use today. He invented the motion picture camera and…
What is the opposite word of benefit? Free English writing tool.Write in clear, mistake-free English with our free writing app. Try now!Here are some candidates. Antonyms of benefit as a noun (“to the benefit of”; “it is a benefit”) burden; damage; deficit; disability; disadvantage; detriment; downside; drag, drawback; encumbrance; hindrance; obstacle.Antonyms of benefit as a…
