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Seat Utilization

DE: Sitzplatzauslastung

Share of purchased seats actively used.

Metrics

Seat-Based Pricing

DE: Sitzplatzbasierte Preisgestaltung

Price proportional to number of users or seats.

Product & Growth

Secondary Fund

DE: Sekundärfonds

Fund focused on buying interests in other funds or late-stage stakes.

Financing & Investors

Secondary Sale

DE: Sekundärverkauf

Sale of existing shares (e.g., by founders or angels) to new investors; no new capital to company.

Financing & Investors Synonyms: secondary

Secret Rotation

DE: Schlüsselrotation

Regularly updating credentials and keys to reduce risk.

Technology & Platforms

Securitization

DE: Verbriefung

Pooling assets and issuing securities backed by their cash flows.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Security Hardening

DE: Sicherheitshärtung

Strengthening systems by disabling risks and enforcing policies.

Technology & Platforms

Security Incident

DE: Sicherheitsvorfall

Event compromising confidentiality, integrity, or availability.

Legal & Regulation

Security Posture

DE: Sicherheitslage

Overall security maturity and risk exposure.

Technology & Platforms

Seed Round

DE: Seed-Runde

The earliest institutional funding round to validate product, market, and team, usually led by angels or seed funds.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Segment Entry Play

DE: Segment-Einstiegs-Play

Purpose-built play to win initial customers in a new segment.

Market & Strategy

Segmentation

DE: Segmentierung

Dividing the market into groups with shared needs and behaviors.

Market & Strategy Source ↗

Self-Serve Motion

DE: Self-Serve-Motion

Customer journey where users can discover, try, and buy without sales.

Product & Growth

Self-Serve PQL

DE: Self-Serve-PQL

PQL defined by self-serve behavior thresholds.

Product & Growth

Sell-side Advisor

DE: Sell-Side-Berater

Advisor representing the seller in M&A transactions.

Financing & Investors

Senior Debt

DE: Vorrangiges Darlehen

Debt with first claim on assets and cash flows in case of default.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Senior Preference

DE: Vorrangige Präferenz

Later series paid before earlier ones in a liquidation.

Financing & Investors

Sequential Probability Ratio Test

DE: Sequenzielles Verhältnis-Test

Method for continuous monitoring without inflating Type I error.

Product & Growth Synonyms: SPRT

Sequential Testing

DE: Sequentielles Testen

Statistical method allowing early stopping without inflated error rates.

Product & Growth

Serial Entrepreneur

DE: Seriengründer

Founder who has started multiple companies.

Organization & Leadership Source ↗

Series A

DE: Series-A-Runde

First major venture round used to scale validated product-market fit and build repeatable go-to-market.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Series B

DE: Series-B-Runde

Growth round to scale team, processes, and market expansion after Series A milestones.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Service Mesh

DE: Service-Mesh

Dedicated infrastructure layer for service-to-service communication.

Technology & Platforms

Service Uptime

DE: Dienstverfügbarkeit

Percentage of time a service is operational.

Metrics

Session Replay

DE: Sitzungsaufzeichnung

Tool to replay user sessions for diagnostics.

Product & Growth