Glossary
- 3rd F
- Advisor
- BA
- Balance Sheet
- BAN
- Barrier to Entry
- BP
- Business Angel
- Business Angel Network
- Business Plan
- Business Thumbnail
- Carbon Reduction Commitment
- Cash Flow Forecast
- Coach
- Conditions Precedent
- Copyright
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- CRC
- CSR
- Data Protection Act
- DD
- Director
- Disclosure Letter
- DPA
- Due Diligence
- Early-stage
- EIS
- Enterprise Investment Scheme
- Entrepreneur
- Equity
- Exit Multiple
- Expansion
- Family, Friends and Fools
- FFF
- Founder
- Gross Value Add
- GVA
- High Net Worth
- HM Revenue and Customs
- HMRC
- HNW
- IM
- Incubator
- Information Memorandum
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Rate of Return
- Investor
- Investor Ready
- IP
- IR
- IRR
- Loan
- Long Term Incentive Plan
- LTIP
- Management Buy In
- Management Buy Out
- MBI
- MBO
- Memorandum of Association
- Memorandum of Understanding
- Mentor
- MoA
- Money laundering
- MoU
- National Minimum Wage
- NED
- Neo Linguistic Programming
- NLP
- NMW
- Nomad
- Nominated Adviser
- Non-Executive Director
- Offer Letter
- Patent
- Payment in Lieu of Notice
- PILON
- Positive Ratchet Clause
- Pre-start
- Preference Shares
- Principles
- Profit and Loss
- Ratchet
- Risk Premium
- Sales of Goods Act
- Shadow Director
- Shareholder Agreement
- Shares
- Small or Medium Enterprise
- SME
- SME
- SoGA
- Sophisticated Investor
- Start-up
- Sweat Equity
- Total Shareholder Return
- Trade secret
- Trademark
- TSR
- Unique Perceived Benefit
- Unique Selling Proposition
- UPB
- USP
- Warranty
- White Meeting
Executive Summary
The first page of text in a business plan that gives an overview of the business idea, marketing strategy and financial forecasts for the next three years.
The aim of the executive summary is to encourage Investors and Business Angels to look into the plan in more detail with a view to investing time and money in the project.
