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Drag-free Threshold

DE: Drag-freie Schwelle

Cap table threshold below which shareholders are not dragged.

Financing & Investors

Driver-Owner-Approver

DE: Driver-Owner-Approver

Variation clarifying who pushes, owns outcome, and approves.

Organization & Leadership Synonyms: DOA

Dual Career Ladders

DE: Duale Karriereleiter

Parallel IC and management tracks for advancement.

Organization & Leadership

Dual Write

DE: Doppelschreiben

Writing to two systems simultaneously to keep them in sync.

Technology & Platforms

Dual-Class Shares

DE: Aktien mit Mehrstimmrechten

Share structure giving some shareholders (often founders) superior voting rights.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Due Diligence

DE: Due Diligence

Investor investigation of a company’s financial, legal, technical, and commercial aspects before investing.

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Early Access Program

DE: Frühzugangsprogramm

Invite-only program to test features before beta.

Product & Growth

Earn Trust

DE: Vertrauen verdienen

Delivering consistently with transparency and ownership.

Culture & Buzzwords

Earn-in

DE: Earn-in

Seller receives additional equity in NewCo upon hitting post-close milestones.

Financing & Investors

Earnout

DE: Earn-out

Contingent consideration paid to sellers upon achieving milestones.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

EBIT

DE: EBIT

Earnings before interest and taxes.

Metrics Source ↗

EBITDA

DE: EBITDA

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

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Economic Buyer

DE: Wirtschaftlicher Entscheider

Person with authority to approve the spend.

Market & Strategy

Economies of Scale

DE: Skaleneffekte

Cost advantages realized as output increases.

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Economies of Scope

DE: Verbundvorteile

Efficiencies from producing multiple related products.

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Ecosystem Moat

DE: Ökosystem-Burggraben

Defensibility from integrations, partners, and community.

Market & Strategy

Edge Compute

DE: Edge-Computing

Processing data near the source to reduce latency and cost.

Technology & Platforms Source ↗

Education-Led Growth

DE: Education-led Growth

Growth driven by courses, certifications, and enablement.

Product & Growth

Effective Take Rate

DE: Effektive Take-Rate

Actual platform margin after incentives, refunds, and fraud.

Metrics

ELT

DE: ELT

Extract, Load, Transform pipeline model applied inside the warehouse.

Technology & Platforms

Email Click-Through Rate

DE: E-Mail-Klickrate

Percentage of opens that result in a click.

Metrics Synonyms: CTR

Email Open Rate

DE: E-Mail-Öffnungsrate

Percentage of delivered emails that are opened.

Metrics

Embedding

DE: Einbettung

Numerical representation of data enabling semantic search and clustering.

Technology & Platforms

Empty State

DE: Leerer Zustand

First-view UI shown when no data exists yet; should guide action.

Product & Growth

Empty-State Education

DE: Leerer-Zustand-Education

Teaching users what to do via empty state content.

Product & Growth