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Understanding How Dilution Affects You at a Startup. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. Dilution. Or as industry insiders call it, “taking a haircut.” Everybody knows that when you raise money at a startup your ownership percentage of the company goes down. The goal is to have the value of the startup go up by enough that you own a smaller percentage of a much larger business and therefore your total personal value goes up. The simplest way to think about this is: If you own 20% of a $2 million company your stake is worth $400,000.

If you raise a new round venture capital (say $2.5 million at a $7.5 million pre-money valuation, which is a $10 million post-money) you get diluted by 25% (2.5m / 10m). So you own 15% of the new company but that 15% is now worth $1.5 million or a gain of $1.1 million. But understanding how you’re likely to get diluted over time is a more difficult concept. I’ve had to simplify a bit, but to make it easier to understand I’ve teamed up with Jess Bachman at Visual.ly. And Jess is awesome at his trade. 100 of the Most Inspiring Business Videos on YouTube. YouTube is filled with inspirational videos of all types, including those created by businesses or individuals looking to inspire others to succeed. Let’s look at 100 of the most inspiring business videos ever placed on this site. Great Inspirational Tips for Business Success Take a look at these cool business inspiration clips. 1. 9 Steps to Achieve Any Goal – Isn’t it great to know that you can make your business and personal dreams come true in nine steps?

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Home Business Inspiration Starting a home business can be a scary prospect. 16. 3HourWorkDay.com – Awesome inspiration to create your own work-from-home business. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Humorous Business Inspiration Sometimes a good laugh can be all the business inspiration you need, especially when that laugh is related to business! 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. Inspirational Business Quotes and Poems 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 75 Startup Tools And Apps new business ideas and startups - So you have a new business or startup idea and based on your analysis and research you have conducted, your confident that there is a market for it.

Ok, now what? You need to possibly find a cofounder and team to start planning, seek funding and successfully execute the plan for a pilot or full launch. There are so many resources and tools out there that can assist you in managing and excuting your startup or new business idea more eficiently and effectively. As a result, I have produced a list of my favourite tools and applications covering the various disciplines you will need to undertake in order to successfully execute and launch your startup or new business. Here are just a few tools and applications that I have used over the years in managing and delivering small to large projects.

I hope you find them useful for your business and startup. Brainstorming Ideas | Bubbl.us MindManager Creately Creately, another great online application for creating flow charts, wireframes and mind maps. Jira. 47 Mind-Blowing Psychological Facts You Should Know About Yourself. I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr. Susan Weinschenk is the author of Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? 99 Resources to Research &Mine the Invisible Web. College researchers often need more than Google and Wikipedia to get the job done.

To find what you're looking for, it may be necessary to tap into the invisible web, the sites that don't get indexed by broad search engines. The following resources were designed to help you do just that, offering specialized search engines, directories, and more places to find the complex and obscure. Search Engines Whether you're looking for specific science research or business data, these search engines will point you in the right direction. Turbo10: On Turbo10, you'll be able to search more than 800 deep web search engines at a time.

Agrisurf: If you're searching for information related to agriculture and farming, check out this engine. Databases Tap into these databases to access government information, business data, demographics, and beyond. GPOAccess: If you're looking for US government information, tap into this tool that searches multiple databases at a time.

Catalogs Directories Guides. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time. Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.Wired How-To Wiki - Collaborate with Wired editors and help them build their extensive library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips.

Dollar Shave Club. A Spectacular List of 240+ Tips, Tricks and Resources for Content Marketing. From beginners to old-hats, we all have something to learn about content marketing. We know you have better things to do than spending your days scouring the web for the info you need, so we’ve taken the liberty of doing that for you. Behold our epic list of the very best tips, info and resources to kick-start your content marketing strategy. Understanding content marketing Using content marketing for SEO results Tips for setting up an editorial calendar Building followers on social networks Building an email subscription list Creating effective calls to action Generating content ideas Tool to help you find content Clipboard (Bookmarking service)News.me (News curator)Curate Me (News curator)StumbleUpon (Social discovery service)Strawberryj.am (Social link curator) Must-see slide presentations Must-read blogs Must-follow Twitter users Must-circle Google+ users Must-listen podcasts Must-join LinkedIn groups Must-follow Pinterest boards Best brands using Instagram for content marketing Slideshows.

Free Text-to-Speech (TTS) Avatar Widget by SitePal. Online Reputation, Google Ranking, Personal Branding. BrandYourself: Control Your Google Results at BrandYourself.com. BrandYourself offers Online Reputation Management tools and services to make sure you look great when people Google your name. Now that the majority of people turn to Google to find more about you (both in business and personal life), online reputation management has become extremely important to anyone who cares about their career. .

Until BrandYourself, online reputation management was either time consuming (if you knew how to do it yourself) or expensive (if you paid a reputation company to do it for you). We specifically built BrandYourself to empower anyone to do it themselves - and to make it easy, fun and free. Just create an account, submit any profiles or links you want people to find when they Google you, then follow our steps to boost them higher in results for your name. Online reputation management has never been easier. We also recommend that you be wary of other online reputation management companies that charge thousands of dollars to improve your results for you. Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid. This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”. Startups are hot again. I have family members asking if they can “get in on some deals,” every town is launching an incubator (or 3) and the papers are filled with stories of fund raisings, product launches & new innovation.

If you’re one of the anointed few who is getting the adoration of the press, investors and employees – enjoy the moment and capitalize on the momentum but stay grounded. On Kool Aid: I want to talk about Kool Aid. Yours. Don’t drink it. My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. So journalists were looking for a new story to tell. Goldman Sachs was an investor. We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). We were hot. Mistakes we made? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Me?

100 Websites You Should Know and Use. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. While most of these sites are still going strong and remain wonderful resources, we’ve crossed out any that are no longer functioning. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” To see the original list, click here.

And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. How To Find And Train a Virtual Assistant. 45 Kick-Ass Resources for Online Entrepreneurs | Productive Entrepreneur - StumbleUpon. Few people talk about this great productivity tip… You will reach your goals faster and easier if you’re willing to learn from others. Using brilliant, well-crafted resources created specifically for online entrepreneurs improves your online productivity. Below I have a long list of resources, most of which I’ve used myself. The rest come highly recommended from my mentors and online business friends. Enjoy the list. Pick a resource that will help you be more productive. And get something awesome done! I’ve arranged the resources from those helpful to beginners to those suited to more advanced entrepreneurs.

The links to these resources are not affiliate links. Helpful from the word go… If you’re new to online business, you’ll find value in the following resources. 1. Before you can blog, collect email addresses or sell anything, you need a little piece of real estate on a reliable web server. 2. I’m hoping that no one laughs at this resource recommendation. 3. Today web design is easy. 4.