50 More of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet by Johnny Webber

1. MapC.am – Call and connect with a random person somewhere in the world.
2. Pective.com – Find out the actual size of things.
3. ShareOnFB.com – Share fake news stories, and prank your friends.
4. WhichDateWorks.com – Find out which date works best with your friends.
5. imo.im – Free voice, messaging, and video calls.
6. LiveShare.com – Beautiful messaging for your groups.
7. Rappad.co – Write a song about whatever you want.
8. MySlideRule.com – Find online courses on any topic.
9. KeyboardTester.com – Test your keyboard’s functionality.
10. SndTst.com – A sound test for various games.
11. InternetDirectory.info – The Yellow Pages but for the Internet.
12. ABetterQueue.com – Use Rotten Tomatoes standards to create a better Netflix queue.
13. LucyPhone.com – Never wait on hold for a company ever again.
14. ZeroDollarMovies.com – Find free movies online.
15. Alertful.com – Get reminded of important appointments via email.
16. CommercialTunage.com – Find out which song was used in that one commercial.
17. JazzAndRain.com – Listen to the soothing sounds of jazz and rainfall.
18. OffTheRoost.com – Find a place to eat.
19. Studio.StupeFlix.com – Make amazing videos in seconds.
20. TypingWeb.com – Learn to touch type.
21. Bonanza.com – Remove backgrounds from images.
22. CloudConvert.org – Convert a file to anything.
23. 7CupsOfTea.com – Connect with someone who will listen to your troubles.
24. Boostgr.am – Promote your Instagram photos.
25. Chordify.net – Extract high quality guitar chords from any song.
26. Archive.today – Take a snapshot of a webpage so it will always be online.
27. TuneIn.com – Listen to over 100,000 real radio stations.
28. TakeLessons.com – Search thousands of teachers for local and online lessons.
29. Forget.me – Remove yourself from Google search results.
30. PizzaCodes.com – Get coupons for your pizzas.
31. AlternativeTo.net – Find alternative software.
32. Gixen.com – Automatically place eBay bids.
33. MapMyRun.com – Plan out every stride of your jog.
34. XKCDGraphs.com – Create your own XKCD style graphs.
35. WarrantyGenius.com – Organize and track all of your product warranties.
36. TheSquatrack.com – Track your workouts.
37. GodChecker.com – An encyclopedia of over 3,700 gods, demons, spirits, and beasts.
38. EasyASCII.com – Quickly copy ASCII characters.
39. PrintablePaper.net – Printable lined, graph, and music paper with more.
40. IP-Grabber.com – Grab an IP address from a link.
41. GifCtrl.com – Reverse gifs.
42. YourLogicalFallacyIs.com – Learn your logical fallacies.
43. HabitRPG.com – Create habits and earn rewards.
44. Jog.fm – Find the perfect music for your run.
45. HaveIBeenPwned.com – Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breech.
46. TeachMeAnatomy.info – Learn about human anatomy.
47. WobZip.org – Uncompress zip files online.
48. PDF.yt – Imgur for PDF documents.
49. UnplugTheTV.com – Watch educational YouTube videos at random.
50. 50WaysToGetAJob.com – Find out what you should do next to get a job.

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1.	10-Day Notice Before Collections on Delinquent Account
2.	30-Day Notice to Quit
3.	Acceptance of Counter Proposal
4.	Acceptance of Order With Delivery in Lots
5.	Acceptance of Purchase Security Agreement
6.	Acceptance of Resignation
7.	Acknowledged Receipt of Goods
8.	Acknowledged Resignation
9.	Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Order
10.	Acknowledgement from Publisher, Comments Referred to Author
11.	Acknowledgement of Application
12.	Acknowledgement of Cancellation of Backorder
13.	Acknowledgement of Change in Meeting Date
14.	Acknowledgement of Customer Praise of Employee
15.	Acknowledgement of Letter
16.	Acknowledgement of Merchandise Returned for Repair
17.	Acknowledgement of Modified Terms
18.	Acknowledgement of Notification of Lease Transfer
19.	Acknowledgement of Receipt (Documents)
20.	Acknowledgement of Receipt of Estimate
21.	Acknowledgement of Request for Bid, Confirmation of Deadline
22.	Acknowledgement of Unsolicited Idea
23.	Acknowledgement of Warranty and Instruction for Product Return
24.	Acknowledgment of Correspondence Indicating Postal Delay
25.	Advance Notice of Out of Business Sale
26.	Affidavit for Lost, Stolen, Destroyed Stock Certificate
27.	Affidavit of No Lien
28.	Agreement to Compromise Debt
29.	Agreement to Extend Debt Payment
30.	Amendment to Lease
31.	Announcement of Additional Location
32.	Announcement of Business Name Change
33.	Announcement of Catalog Price Reductions
34.	Announcement of Change of Address
35.	Announcement of Change of Address for Billing
36.	Announcement of Clearance Sale
37.	Announcement of Free Delivery Limitations Change
38.	Announcement of New Area Representative
39.	Announcement of New Area Representative Visit
40.	Announcement of New Business Opening
41.	Announcement of New Discount
42.	Announcement of New Pricing Policy
43.	Announcement of New Shipment Arrival
44.	Announcement of Partnership Buyout
45.	Announcement of Price Increase
46.	Announcement of Price Reduction
47.	Announcement of Special Discount Offer
48.	Apology & Proposal on Overshipped Merchandise
49.	Apology After Cancellation of Order
50.	Apology and Replacement of Damaged Goods
51.	Apology and Request for Extension of Time to Deliver Goods
52.	Apology and Tender of Compensation
53.	Apology for Accounting Errors and Past Due Notices
54.	Apology for Delay of Refund
55.	Apology for Delayed Response & Request for Meeting
56.	Apology for Not Crediting Payment
57.	Apology for Not Crediting Payment from Prompt Payer
58.	Apology for Overshipment
59.	Apology for Poor Service Rating on Customer Questionnaire
60.	Apology to Customer for Accounting Error
61.	Apology to Receiver of NSF Check
62.	Application for License
63.	Appointment for Employment Interview and Testing
64.	Appointment for Testing
65.	Assignment
66.	Assignment and Transfer of Stock Certificate
67.	Assignment of a Claim for Damages
68.	Assignment of Accounts Receivable (With Non-Recourse)
69.	Assignment of Accounts Receivable (With Recourse)
70.	Assignment of Contract
71.	Assignment of Copyright
72.	Assignment of Deed of Trust
73.	Assignment of Income
74.	Assignment of Lease
75.	Assignment of Lease
76.	Assignment of Lien
77.	Assignment of Literary Property
78.	Assignment of Security Interest
79.	Assignment of Trademark
80.	Assignment of Trademark
81.	Authorization
82.	Authorization to Direct Bill for Corporate Guest
83.	Bid for the Purchase of Real Property (Probate)
84.	Bill of Sale
85.	Bill of Sale (with Warranty of Title)
86.	Business Credit Application
87.	Business Credit Application Form
88.	Certificate of Abandonment of Fictitious Business Name
89.	Certificate of Installation, Leased Equipment
90.	Certification of Satisfaction of Lien
91.	Change of Address Awaiting Refund
92.	Charge Account Credit Limit Raise Notification
93.	Charge Account Terms and Conditions Form
94.	Charge Back Application of Discount on Delayed Shipment
95.	Collateral Decision, Request for Preparation of Loan Documents
96.	Collections Follow-Up on Release of Pending Order
97.	Collections Report on Current Status of Debt
98.	Commendation
99.	Commendation and Refusal of Request for Raise
100.	Commercial Account Analysis Form

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How I Helped Mark Cuban Make a Billion Dollars and 5 Things I Learned from Him

Mark Cuban’s company, AudioNet (later named Broadcast.com), called me up in 1997 because they desperately needed my help in order for Cuban to become the billionaire he rightfully became.  They wined me, dined me, called me up every day, until finally I granted them their wish.

I don’t follow every aspect of Mark Cuban’s career. So I’m only going to discuss my own brief interactions with the periphery of his business life to explain what I’ve learned from him. Suffice to say, he’s enormously successful. He had a company Broadcast.com which he sold to Yahoo. And then Mark Cuban sold all his shares at the very top, walking away with billions, which he’s probably turned into a billion or so more. He then bought the Dallas Mavericks, started HDNet, made a ton of investments, had a very public battle with Donald Trump, had a very public battle with the SEC, etc.

(Mark Cuban on Dancing with the Stars. I like the way she is looking at him)

I called a friend of mine the other day, “Are you jealous of Cuban?” I asked him. And he said, “of course I am.”

Which is good because if he said, “no”, he would’ve been a liar. And if he said, “no, that guy just got lucky,” he would be the worst personality cocktail out there: stupid and mean.

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What I learned from Cuban:

1) Create your luck. Most people I speak to about Cuban say he was lucky. He created a company with minimal revenues in the internet video/audio space, had the biggest IPO in history at the time (1998), immediately put the company up for sale, sold to the biggest Internet company (Yahoo), and then sold all his shares at the very top. How did he know to sell at the top? Is that the “luck” part everyone refers to? Or the fact that he started a company with no revs and was just “lucky” it was at the right time (the Internet bubble?)

It wasn’t luck at all. In chess there’s a saying, “only the good players are lucky”. Whenever a good player wins a game, the angry opponent often says, “ahh, you were just lucky”. But it always seems the good player gets lucky more than the bad player.

People are starved for love and affection. They thrash out everywhere to find it (business, games, relationships, etc) because they didn’t find it as children. And when they see someone else get love (money), they can’t understand it. Love doesn’t exist so how did X, Y, or Z get it? It must be luck.

In 1997, I had never heard of Cuban when AudioNet contacted me. AudioNet was the name of Cuban’s company before it changed its name to Broadcast.com.

At the time, my company, Reset, was putting together the first regular live online production of a TV show. The People’s Court with Ed Koch (a very prestigious TV show if you never watched it) wanted to stream live while it was being filmed. So people online could view it before it went on the air. I was very excited for several reasons.

The People’s Court with Judge Wappner was one of my favorites growing up. So now I was seeing from the ground floor how it was being made. A roomful of production assistants was going through every small claims court case on file. Hundreds or thousands of them. The most interesting ones were being pulled out for airing. We had our own office right next to this production room, where we would relax between airings. Then, we had a guy on site every day managing the streaming on the Internet. How many people watched every day back in 1997 online? Maybe 20? Maybe zero? But it was interesting. And they paid us well. I also loved being in the Hotel Pennsylvania, where it was being aired. Right across the street from Penn Station it was the site of many New York Open chess tournaments when I had been growing up. So I had fond memories. And also some bad ones.

AudioNet contacted us because they were dying for us to use their technology to do the live streaming. I forget the name of their local New York sales person. Very nice guy, persistent. “Listen,” he said, “Mark Cuban wants to go public and we NEED press releases. Press releases drive IPOs. This would be a great press release.”  We all laughed about that. We ended up using them.

Mark Cuban understood the game right from the beginning. Create a brand, be at the forefront of technology (but not too far ahead (no electric cars for him) ) get as many press releases going as possible, sell as fast as you can. He knew, probably five years in advance, that a bubble was occurring and this was the exact plan to maximize value from it. He probably extracted more from the initial Internet bubble than anyone else. It doesn’t happen by luck that you sell at the top. You have to know five years in advance when that top wil occur. And then have to have a very precise plan for being at the right spot at the right time at the very top.

I didn’t understand the game. For instance, in my company, I was a service business. Even though I was developing my own software to build websites. We were streaming many live events. We were doing many things that we could’ve called “products” and we could’ve headed down the IPO route by branding our products, speaking at events, etc. I probably had more revenues than half the companies that went pubic at that time. But I branded myself a service business, not a products business.

I had no business sophistication at all. All I wanted to do was make payroll, have a little extra (profit) and then sell my business as a function of my profits. This is fine in most business cycles (it worked) but I didn’t maximize the way Cuban did. I don’t want to chastize myself but I was right there, right at the same time, and with just as many good products that I had made as anyone else, but I didn’t properly plan for the events that were occurring (in retrospect) in plain daylight around me. In other words, I just simply wasn’t as smart as Cuban.

Everything is a game. Understanding the rules allows you to succeed.

2) Dont invest in ugly. A few years later, in 2004, I was starting a fund of hedge funds. I wrote Cuban to see if he wanted to invest. To his credit, he responded and said he didn’t like the specific strategy I was using. I was starting a fund of PIPE funds. PIPE funds invest directly into public companies by doing private deals with them so they could get stock at a discount or under other favorable terms. Companies do this because they need to raise the money. So, in other words, the worst companies around because they are incapable of raising money through other means. Mark felt the area was ugly and didn’t want to be involved.

We wrote back two or three times and each time he responded. I tried to argue with him but he knew where he stood and he remained there. No.

When companies he invested in did PIPEs, he would get out (notoriously, his back and forth with the SEC over his investment in MAMA and his selling when they did a PIPE)

So what happened? He was right. I smelled the writing on the wall in 2006 and began unwinding my fund before any implosion occurred. The implosion did occur in 2008, two years later, when funds couldn’t get out of illiquid positions in microcap companies and they all crashed in the financial crisis. Mark probably didn’t see the exact writing on the wall but once again he predicted an event that was yet to occur for another four years. What I learned: PIPEs had a bad reputation even in 2004, but I thought that created opportunity. Mark correctly realized that its ok to be an optimist in bad situations, but don’t be stupid. If you do too many crazy things then you become crazy. My investors came out ok but it could’ve been a lot worse and I should’ve just listened to Cuban from the beginning.

3) Get comfortable, then get rich. Most people think Cuban just stumbled into the dot-com boom, made his billions, and then that was that. This next thing I learned from Cuban is critical for any entrepreneur. He had already sold his first software company in the early 90s (I might be getting the dates wrong. I make a rule not to look anything up while I’m writing). I don’t know how much he made, but it was enough (10 milion?) for him to be comfortable for the rest of his life. So that allowed him the confidendence to stretch out his muscles and really go for the billion. So the rule is, get comfortable, and only then get mega-rich. If you try to go for the big number too early, you can end up miserable.

4) Bleed. Cuban’s been blogging at blogmaverick.com just about before anyone was blogging. All over that site you can see stories of his first company, of his thoughts on the Dallas Mavericks, about broadcast.com, etc. A great resource. He then used this excitement about blogging to invest all over the space (icerocket, weblogs, etc) and although those were successes I think he was doing it more out of fun than anything. And he used his blog to keep his name out there in the community. To keep building his personal brand. Thats very valuable.

5) Cuban’s Rules for Investing: Cuban made his billions and now he does what ever he wants. And pretty publicly. He buys movie chains. He produces movies (because he knows he has distribution for them). He loves basketball (the initial impetus for AudioNet was that he wanted to watch basketball games from his college over the Internet.) so he bought the Dallas Mavericks and has probably increased their value by several hundred million. It seems like there’s a few rules to Cuban’s investing techniques since the 90s:

1) Find something you are super excited about and know that at least another 100 million people can be super excited about it

2) Either start a company in that space or invest as much as possible in it. Also, strongly participate in it. Make sure you are the most excited user of your own product.

3) No matter what you are doing, get as much press as possible. Don’t use PR firms (maybe he does use PR firms but he certainly doesn’t need to. He creates his own PR). Be OUT there creating your own buzz with your own energy. PR firms can never do that for you. Too many companies rely on PR firms to create buzz. But it will never work. You have to create your own buzz and that adds many multiples of value to what otherwise would be your value.

4) Have a good bullshit detector. If things smell, get rid of them. If things are frothy, sell. Don’t break this rule.

5) Engage the customer. Cuban is probably the most accessible owner in the NBA. He talks to the fans. he blogs to entrepreneurs. In 2004 or 2005 I ran into Jason Calacanis who started weblogs, inc. He told me he cold-called Mark Cuban about his weblogs, inc blogging platform and Cuban immediately invested. Cuban responded to my emails about PIPEs even though he didn’t know me and wasn’t even interested in PIPES. Its hard work. For me I respond to up to 100 emails, comments, etc a day and still can’t keep up. Somehow Cuban has the energy to keep on doing what he’s doing even though he could’ve long disappeared by now (when’s the last time you hear from Todd Wagner, his old partner at broadcast.com. I’m sure he’s doing fine but he’s not as public as Cuban).

And yes, I’m jealous. The guy has the dream life. Not everyone can make a billion, though. So the challenge then is to make the dream life (or go far beyond what you thought the dream life would’ve been) by re-calibrating whats really important to you. In my mind, right now, I’m a trillionaire. And getting richer every day.

9 Amazing (Very) Young Entrepreneurs

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Entrepreneurs are getting younger and younger these days. Stories of people launching startups right out of college and becoming CEOs in their 20s seem to pop up everywhere. But it turns out some of us don't even need to reach college age to start a successful company: These business owners aren't even out of their teen years yet! Check out our list of incredible young entrepreneurs that made a name for themselves before they could drive a car.

Leanna Archer

Leanna's Hair
Leanna Archer was just 9 years old when she began bottling and selling her own hair pomade to friends and family. Based on her great-grandmother's secret recipe, Archer's line of all-natural hair products has expanded to include a variety of hair cleansers, conditioners and treatments. The now-17-year-old serves as the CEO of her company and has been recognized by prominent business publications like Forbes and Success Magazine. She even started the Leanna Archer Education Foundation to help build schools and safe learning environments for underprivileged children in Haiti.

Robert Nay

Nay Games
In December 2010, a new mobile game app called "Bubble Ball" was launched on the Apple app store. In its first two weeks it received more than 1 million downloads, surpassing "Angry Birds" as the most downloaded free game from Apple. This game was built entirely by Robert Nay, a 14-year-old with no previous coding experience. According to CNN, Nay learned everything he needed to know through research at the public library, and produced 4,000 lines of code for his physics-based puzzle game in just one month. The teen entrepreneur's company, Nay Games, released 24 new levels for "Bubble Ball" in August 2013.

Lizzie Marie Likness

Lizzie Marie Cuisine
Like many little girls, 6-year-old Lizzie Marie Likness wanted to ride horses. To pay for horseback riding lessons, she began selling homemade baked goods at her local farmers market. Eventually Marie realized that cooking was her true passion, and with the help of her parents, she built a healthy-cooking website with instructional videos to help kids eat better. Now 13, Likness has taught cooking classes, appeared on the "Rachael Ray Show," and starred in her own WebMD video series, "Healthy Cooking with Chef Lizzie," through her culinary business venture.
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Moziah Bridges

Mo's Bows
Most young boys are revolted by the idea of getting dressed up, but Moziah Bridges is a rare exception. After being disappointed in the bow ties available to him on the market, Bridges learned how to sew his own with the help of his grandmother. The fashion-forward 11-year-old began selling his creations on Etsy, and his products were soon picked up by boutiques in several southeastern states. So far, Bridges has earned over $30,000 from his bow ties, and told Forbes that he eventually plans to start a children's clothing company.

Neha Gupta

Empower Orphans
From an early age, Neha Gupta has participated in her family's tradition of celebrating birthdays by traveling to India and bringing food and gifts to orphans in their hometown. In 2005, when Gupta was 9 years old, she decided she wanted to do more to make a real difference in these children's lives. She began selling handmade wine charms door-to-door and at community events to raise money for school books and other educational expenses for orphans. These efforts led her to create her own registered nonprofit organization, Empower Orphans. Gupta, now 17, has raised more than $1 million and has received awards from numerous charitable foundations.

Jaden Wheeler and Amaya Selmon

Kool Kidz Sno Konez
Jaden Wheeler and Amaya Selmon started making snow cones with a blender and an extension cord in front of their Memphis, Tenn.,home two years ago. Since then, the brother and sister team have upgraded quite a bit: at ages 12 and 11, respectively, they are now the youngest food truck owners in Memphis. In a Huffington Post feature on Kool Kidz Sno Konez, Jaden and Amaya explained that their mother purchased the truck for them after seeing how successful their (very) small business had become. The truck, which is usually stationed in local parks or at private events, now offers hot dogs, nachos, and more than 20 snow cone flavors.

Nick D'Aloisio

Summly
How many teens can say that a multinational corporation purchased their company and made them millionaires? There's probably not a lot, but Nick D'Aloisio is one of them. The 17-year-old entrepreneur is the tech prodigy behind Summly, a summarization app that algorithmically creates summaries of news articles optimized for the iPhone. At 15, he received backing from Horizon Ventures and other angel investors to develop his technology, and in March 2013, Yahoo acquired D'Aloisio's company for $30 million.

Anshul Samar

Elementeo (Alchemist Empire Inc.)
As a fourth grader, Anshul Samar loved playing card games. Two years later, he began developing his own, which he called Elementeo. Samar aimed to make chemistry fun with his board-based game, which involves pitting personified versions of each element on the periodic table against each other to "capture" electrons. Since the first iteration of Elementeo, Samar, now a 19-year-old Stanford University student, has continued to update the game and created a grant fund for other young entrepreneurs, says in a Taking on the Giant article. He has even given a TEDx Talk (an independently organized TED Talk) on his game.
This story was provided by BusinessNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Originally published on BusinessNewsDaily.