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
• Agile
• Angel Investor
• Angular
• Back-end
• Benchmarking
• Board of Directors
• Build-Measure-Learn (BML)
• Burn Rate
• Convertible Debt
• CSS
• CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS)
• Dedicated Team (Staff Augmentation) 
• Discovery Phase
• Django
• Due Diligence
• Early Adopter
• Fixed-price Contract
• Front-end
• HTML
• Incubator
• Initial Public Offering (IPO)
• JavaScript
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
• Lean Startup
• Mezzanine Funding (Mezzanine Financing)
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP) 
• MIT License
• Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
• Outsourcing
• Pivot
• Portfolio Company
• Product Scope
• Project Scope
• Proof of Concept (PoC) 
• Prototype
• Python
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Scope
• Seed Capital
• Seed Round (Seed Stage)
• Single Page Application (SPA)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Specification
• Time and Material Contract (T&M)
• Two-pizza-size Team
• Validated Learning
• Venture Capital
• Venture Capitalist