3rd F - The three F's are Family, Friends and Fools...
Advisor - An advisor is someone with a specific area of...
Balance Sheet - A balance sheet is a financial statement which...
Business Angel - A Business Angel is a person who invests their...
Business Angel Network - A Business Angel Network is an organisation that...
Business Coach - A Business Coach is one who specialises in...
Business Plan - A Business Plan is a document that describes a...
Business Thumbnail - An overview of a business idea designed to test...
Carbon Reduction Commitment - Many organisations may be affected by a new,...
Cash Flow Forecast - The cash flow forecast (also known as the cash...
Coach - Coaching is primarily concerned with the...
Conditions Precedent - Terms in a proposed agreement that must be met...
Copyright - Copyright (symbolized as "©") is a legal...
Crowd Sourcing - Crowdfunding is a loan from lots of people (the...
Data Protection Act - The Data Protection Act gives individuals the...
Director - In relation to a company or other formal...
Disclosure Letter - A letter that forms part of the documentation...
Due Diligence - The process an investor goes through to verify...
Early-stage - One of the stages of a company's development....
Enterprise Investment Scheme - The EIS is designed to help smaller higher-risk...
Entrepreneur - An entrepreneur is a person who has possession...
Equity - The owners of a company will own a share in the...
Executive Coach - An Executive Coach is a Coach who specialises in...
Executive Summary - The first page of text in a business plan that...
Exit Multiple - This term is a measure of the return of...
Expansion - This is the stage of a companies growth where...
Factoring - Factoring is where a business sells its invoices...
Family, Friends & Fools - The name given to three types of people who make...
Founder - With respect to a settlement, organization,...
Grant - A grant is a sum of money given to a company with...
Gross Value Add - Gross Value Add (GVA) measures the contribution...
High Net Worth - A High Net Worth (HNW) individual is defined in...
Incubator - A company that provides facilities to allow...
Information Memorandum - A document that gives a brief overview of a...
Intellectual Property - Intellectual property is a legal field that...
Internal Rate of Return - The Internal Rate of Return is a metric used to...
Investor - Investor is a general term that may be corporate...
Investor Ready - A company is investor ready when it has provided...
Invoice Financing - Invoice Financing or Factoring is where a...
Loan - Financially, a loan is a contractual promise of a...
Long Term Incentive Plan - A reward system designed to improve employees'...
Management Buy In - A management buyin (MBI) occurs when a manager...
Management Buy Out - Management buyouts are similar in all major legal...
Memorandum of Association - The Memorandum of Association sets out the...
Memorandum of Understanding - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a legal...
Mentor - Mentoring is a form of teaching that includes...
Money Laundering - Money laundering is the practice of engaging in...
National Minimum Wage - The National Minimum Wage (NMW) is a minimum...
Nomad - Nominated adviser - Nomad is a firm or company...
Non-executive Director - A non-executive director (NED, also NXD) or...
Offer Letter - A letter written to make an offer to a company or...
Patent - A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by...
Payment in Lieu of Notice - An employer may elect to make a payment in lieu...
Positive Ratchet Clause - Some investors or VCs add "positive ratchet...
Pre-start - This is one of the stages of the growth of a...
Preference Shares - Preference shares (also known as preferred stock...
Principals - The principals are the main people who are key to...
Profit - Profit is the reward given to anyone who takes...
Profit and Loss - A profit and loss account is a financial...
Ratchet - Investment agreements may have a ratchet clause...
Risk Premium - The risk premium is the additional amount paid to...
Royalty Based Financing - For a Royalty Based Financing deal the investor...
Sales of Goods Act - Generally refers to the Sale of Goods Act 1979...
Shadow Director - The Companies Act defines a shadow director as a...
Shareholder Agreement - A document that is shared between all...
Shares - A share is one of a finite number of equal...
Sophisticated Investor - A Sophisticated Investor is defined in the...
Start-up - One of the stages of a company's development. At...
Super Angel - Super Angel is a term that has been coined in the...
Sweat Equity - When someone works for a company and is paid in...
Total Shareholder Return - The total return to an investor who holds equity...
Unique Perceived Benefit - Now one of the central strongest mechanisms in...
Unique Selling Proposition - The key benefit that will be satisfied when...
Warranty - A list of statements made about an entity which...
White Meeting - A meeting where there is no agenda so that the...
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