Investment terms that minimize control loss and harsh preferences.
Alignment between founders’ experience/insight and the problem/market.
Contract among founders covering roles, vesting, and IP assignment.
Operating cash flow minus capex, available for debt or dividends.
Controls preventing fraud and overuse on free tiers.
Time-limited full access to encourage conversion.
Offering a free tier to drive adoption with paid upgrades for advanced features.
Threshold at which free users must upgrade.
Systematic review to identify and quantify user friction.
List of pain points observed in user journeys.
Anti-dilution formula resetting conversion price fully to the new lower price.
Routing decisions/problems to the owning function lead.
Short-term loan to a fund to bridge capital calls from LPs.
Extending a fund's term to maximize exits.
The duration a fund is active, typically 10 years plus extensions.
Investment vehicle that allocates capital into other funds rather than directly into startups.
Year a fund begins investing; used for benchmarking returns.
Time a company can continue operations before needing to close a round.
Stepwise journey from awareness to activation to revenue.
Composite measure of conversion across funnel stages.
Stage at which users exit the funnel.
Pricing method testing purchase probability at discrete prices.
EU General Data Protection Regulation governing personal data processing and privacy.
Debt relative to equity or EBITDA as leverage measure.
Stage when a product is fully supported and broadly released.