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
- Executive Summary
- 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
- Internal Rate of Return
- Investor
- Investor Ready
- 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
Intellectual Property (IP)
Intellectual property is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical, literary, and artistic works; inventions; and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, and related rights. Under intellectual property law, the holder of one of these abstract "properties" has certain exclusive rights to the creative work, commercial symbol, or invention which is covered by it in exchange for releasing information about the rights so that others can see it. The exclusivity period will expire after a number of years allowing anyone to copy the work.
