Glossary
Terms and definitions related to Startups
- A Round
- Accredited Investor
- Advisory Board
- Angel Financing
- Angel Investor
- Anti-dilution provisions
- Archangel
- B Round
- Blue Sky Laws
- Bootstrapping
- Broad-Based Weighted Average Ratchet
- burn rate
- Burn Rate
- Business Plan
- CAGR
- Cash Position
- Clawback
- Co-investment
- Co-Sale Provisions or Rights
- Collar Agreement
- Committed Funds or Raised Funds
- Common Stock
- Company buy-back
- Conversion Ratio
- Conversion Rights
- Covenant
- Dilution
- Down Round
- elevator pitch
- equity
- Factoring
- Full Ratchet Anti-dilution
- Hockey stick projections:
- Incubator
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- IRR
- Lead Investor
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
- Lifestyle firms
- Limited partner clawback
- Limited Partnerships
- Liquidity Event
- Management buy-out (MBO)
- Market Capitalization
- Mezzanine Financing
- Narrow-based weighted average ratchet
- NDA
- Option Pool
- Participation
- Pay to Play
- Post-Money Valuation
- Pre-Money Valuation
- Preemptive Right
- Preferred return (AKA Hurdle Rate)
- Private Equity
- Private placement memorandum (PPM)
- pro forma
- proof of concept
- Prospectus
- Right of First Refusal
- ROI
- Seed Money
- Seed Stage Financing
- Tag-Along Rights / Rights of Co-Sale
- Term Sheet
- Valuation
- value chain
- VC
- Venture Capital Financing
- vesting schedule
- Voting Right
- Warrant
- Zombie
