Remote-Only
DE: Nur-Remote
Company operating without physical offices.
Culture & Buzzwords
Rep & Warranty Insurance
DE: Garantieversicherungen
Insurance covering breaches of reps and warranties.
Financing & Investors
Synonyms: RWI
Repeat Purchase Rate
DE: Wiederkaufrate
Share of customers who make a second purchase.
Metrics
Reps and Warranties
DE: Garantien und Zusicherungen
Statements of fact and promises made in transaction documents.
Financing & Investors
Request Hedging
DE: Request-Hedging
Sending duplicate requests to reduce tail latency.
Technology & Platforms
Retention Cohort Curve
DE: Retention-Kohortenkurve
Curve showing percent active over time by cohort.
Metrics
Retention Package
DE: Bindungspaket
Targeted comp/equity used to retain key employees.
Organization & Leadership
Retention Rate
DE: Bindungsrate
Percentage of customers retained over a period; the opposite of churn.
Metrics
Retry with Exponential Backoff
DE: Exponentielles Zurücksetzen
Retry strategy spacing attempts with exponentially increasing delays.
Technology & Platforms
Return on Investment (ROI)
DE: Kapitalrendite
Benefit gained relative to the cost of an investment.
Return to Office Policy
DE: Return-to-Office-Richtlinie
Guidelines on in-office expectations for employees.
Organization & Leadership
Synonyms: RTO policy
Revenue Backlog
DE: Umsatz-Backlog
Contracted but not yet recognized revenue.
Metrics
Revenue Churn
DE: Umsatz-Churn
Percentage of recurring revenue lost over a period.
Metrics
Revenue Concentration
DE: Umsatzkonzentration
Share of revenue accounted for by top customers or segments.
Metrics
Revenue Line of Credit
DE: Umsatzkreditlinie
Revolving credit facility sized and repaid based on revenue performance.
Financing & Investors
Revenue per Employee
DE: Umsatz pro Mitarbeitendem
Revenue divided by average headcount; proxy for productivity.
Metrics
Revenue per Seat
DE: Umsatz pro Sitzplatz
Recurring revenue divided by number of licensed seats.
Metrics
Revenue-Based Financing (RBF)
DE: Umsatzbasierte Finanzierung
Capital repaid as a fixed percentage of revenue until a cap is reached.
Financing & Investors
Synonyms: royalty financing
Reverse Diligence
DE: Gegenprüfung
Company’s assessment of potential investors’ reputation and value-add.
Financing & Investors
Reverse ETL
DE: Reverse ETL
Syncing warehouse data back into operational tools (CRM, ads).
Technology & Platforms
Reverse Merger
DE: Reverse-Merger
Private company goes public by merging with an existing public entity.
Reverse Trial
DE: Reverse-Trial
Start with full features then revert to free tier if not paid.
Product & Growth
RFI (Request for Information)
DE: Informationsanfrage
Preliminary request to gather information from vendors.
Market & Strategy
Synonyms: RFI
RFP (Request for Proposal)
DE: Ausschreibung
Formal request inviting vendors to propose solutions.
RFQ (Request for Quote)
DE: Preisabfrage
Request asking vendors to provide pricing for defined scope.
Market & Strategy
Synonyms: RFQ