GET THE MEANING OF VARIOUS STARTUP & FUNDRAISING TERMINOLOGIES
Startup and Fundraising Encyclopedia
A
Angel Investor
Accelerator
API (Application Programming Interface)
Artificial Intelligence
Agile
ARR
ARPA
ACV
Alpha Test
Acquisition
Acqui-hire
Angel Round
Assets
Avatar
A/B Testing
B
Bootstrapping
Board of Directors
Bridge Loan
Burn-Rate
Business Model
Business Plan
Business Incubator
Buyout
Business Valuation
Business Velocity
C
Cash burn
Conversion rate
Crowdfunding
Cap Table
Customer acquisition cost (CAC)
Churn Rate
Content Marketing
Customer lifetime value (CLTV)
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
CMGR
Concentration Risk
D
Due Diligence
Disruptive Innovation
DAU
Data Analytics
Debt Financing
Dividend
Dilution
Drip Marketing
Demo Day
Design Thinking
Dark Data
Dark Web
E
Early Adopter
Earnings
Equity
Exit Strategy
EBITDA
Entrepreneur
Equity Financing
Ecosystem
Early Stage
Exit
F
Fintech
Founder
Funding
Fundraising
Friends and Family Round
First Look Agreement
Fair-Market Valuation
Forced Sale
Founders Agreement
Funding Round
Financial Model
Fractional Ownership
Freemium
G
Gross Profit
Growth Capital
Grunt Fund
Gainsharing
Gaugeability
Gross Churn Rate
Grit Score
Geofencing
Go-To-Market Strategy
Green Shorts
Gen Z Investing
Global Expansion
H
Hacking
Hyper-Growth
Hyper-Local
Human Capital
Hybrid Model
Hypothesize
Huddle
Hype Cycle
Humanize
I
IPO (Initial Public Offering)
Incubators
Investment
Investor
J
J-Curve
Joint Venture (JV)
Jump Start (JS)
J-Hook
J-Round
J-Series
J-Term Sheet
L
Liquidity event
Lifetime Value
Lead Investor
Lead Director
Leveraged Buyout
Liquidation Preference
Lean
M
Market Penetration
Market Share
Marketing Automation
Marketing Dashboard
Media Spend
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Moat
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
MOM Growth Rate
N
NDA
Niche
NPS
Negotiation
Non-Dilutive Funding
Nurturing
Net Churn
Number of Logins
O
Option Pool
Organic Growth
Operating Agreement
Offering Memorandum
Open Source
Option Agreement
Oversubscribed
P
Pay-per-click (PPC)
Pitch Deck
Pivot
Portfolio Company (PortCo)
Post-money valuation
Pre-money valuation
Pre-Seed Funding
Private Equity (PE)
Product-led Growth
Product Manager
Product Marketing
Product Roadmap
Proof of concept
R
Referral Marketing
Run Rate
Runway
ROI(Return on Investment)
Retention
S
SaaS
Sales-led Growth
Scalable
Scale-up
Search Engine Optimisation(SEO)
Seed Funding
Series A
Shareholders' Agreement
Stack (Tech or Marketing)
Startup
Stealth mode
Sweat Equity
Syndicate
T
Term Sheet
Total Addressable Market (TAM)
Traction
Target Company
Total Contract Value
U
Unicorn
Unit Economics
V
Valuation
Value Proposition
VC (Venture Capitalist)
Vesting (Schedule)
W
Wireframe
Y
Yield
Year-over-year (YOY)
Y Combinator
Yieldcos
Young Gun
Z
Zero-sum game
Zero-Rate
Z-score
Zombie company
