Minority Discount
DE: Minderheitenabschlag
Discount applied to value of non-controlling stakes.
Financing & Investors
Minority Investment
DE: Minderheitsbeteiligung
Investment not resulting in control of the company.
Financing & Investors
Mission Narrative
DE: Missionsnarrativ
Story communicating purpose, ambition, and differentiation.
Organization & Leadership
MLOps
DE: MLOps
Practices to reliably build, deploy, and monitor ML models.
Moat
DE: Burggraben
Durable competitive advantage that protects profits (e.g., network effects, scale).
Model Drift
DE: Modelldrift
Degradation of model performance due to changing data distributions.
Technology & Platforms
Model Registry
DE: Modellregister
System of record for versioned ML models and lineage.
Technology & Platforms
Momentum Marketing
DE: Momentum-Marketing
Leveraging news, awards, and milestones to build credibility.
Market & Strategy
Monetization Architecture
DE: Monetarisierungsarchitektur
Coherent structure of value metrics, packages, and price levels.
Product & Growth
Monolith
DE: Monolith
Single, unified codebase/application where components are tightly coupled.
Monorepo
DE: Monorepo
Single repository containing multiple services or applications.
Technology & Platforms
Months of Runway
DE: Monate Runway
Cash balance divided by monthly net burn.
Metrics
Moonshot
DE: Moonshot
Ambitious, high-risk project aiming for 10x outcomes.
Culture & Buzzwords
Most Favored Nation (MFN)
DE: Meistbegünstigungsklausel
Investor receives terms no less favorable than any later investor.
Financing & Investors
Synonyms: MFN clause
Most Favored Nation SAFE
DE: MFN-SAFE
SAFE granting parity with any better terms later offered.
Financing & Investors
Move Fast
DE: Schnell bewegen
Cultural value prioritizing speed and bias to action.
Culture & Buzzwords
MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead)
DE: Marketing-qualifizierter Lead
Lead meeting marketing fit and engagement thresholds.
Product & Growth
Synonyms: MQL
MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue)
DE: Monatlicher wiederkehrender Umsatz
Normalized monthly subscription revenue.
Metrics
MTTA (Mean Time to Acknowledge)
DE: Mittlere Bestätigungszeit
Average time to acknowledge an alert.
Metrics
Synonyms: MTTA
MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve)
DE: Mittlere Lösungszeit
Average time to resolve incidents or tickets.
Multi-armed Bandit
DE: Multi-Armed-Bandit
Algorithm balancing exploration and exploitation across variants.
Multi-Tenancy
DE: Multi-Tenancy
Single deployment serving multiple isolated customers.
Technology & Platforms
Mutual Action Plan
DE: Gemeinsamer Aktionsplan
Document outlining steps and owners to close a deal.
Product & Growth
Synonyms: MAP
Mutual Close Plan
DE: Gemeinsamer Abschlussplan
Shared checklist and timeline to reach signature.
Market & Strategy
Synonyms: MCP
Mutual Evaluation Plan
DE: Gemeinsamer Evaluationsplan
Plan aligning vendor and buyer activities pre-close.
Product & Growth
Synonyms: MEP