Dictionary Definitions
Startups talk a specific language. You often need to understand what other startups, investors or mentors mean. To make your life easier, we collected some most popular definitions together with real life examples.
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- A/B Testing
- Accelerator
- Acquisition
- Agile
- Angel Investor
- Angular
- B2B
- B2C
- Back-end
- Benchmarking
- Board of Directors
- Build-Measure-Learn (BML)
- Burn Rate
- Business Model
- Buyout
- Capped Notes
- Cloud Hosting
- Convertible Debt
- Copyright
- Copyleft
- CSS
- CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS)
- Debt Financing
- Dedicated Team (Staff Augmentation)
- Design Thinking
- Discovery Phase
- Django
- Due Diligence
- Early Adopter
- Entrepreneur in Residence
- Equity Financing
- Fixed-price Contract
- Front-end
- HTML
- Incubator
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Intellectual Property Infringement
- JavaScript
- Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS)
- Kanban
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
- Lean Startup
- Mezzanine Funding (Mezzanine Financing)
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- MIT License
- Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- Outsourcing
- Patent
- Pivot
- Portfolio Company
- Problem Interview
- Product Scope
- Project Scope
- Proof of Concept (PoC)
- Prototype
- Pro Rata Rights
- Pseudocode
- Python
- Recapitalization
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Responsive Web Design
- Re-starter
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Scope
- Scrum
- Scrumban
- Seed Capital
- Seed Round (Seed Stage)
- Series A Round
- Single Page Application (SPA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Specification
- Startup
- Startup Ecosystem
- Technology Stack
- Time and Material Contract (T&M)
- Trademark
- Two-pizza-size Team
- Uncapped Notes
- Unicorn Startup
- User Behavior Analytics
- Validated Learning
- Venture Capital
- Venture Capitalist
- Voice Recognition
- Web Accessibility
- Work-in-process (WIP)