Glossary
- 3rd F
- Advisor
- BA
- Balance Sheet
- BAN
- Barrier to Entry
- BP
- Business Angel
- Business Angel Network
- Business Plan
- 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
- High Net Worth
- HM Revenue and Customs
- HMRC
- HNW
- IM
- Incubator
- Information Memorandum
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Rate of Return
- 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
- Total Shareholder Return
- Trade secret
- Trademark
- TSR
- Unique Perceived Benefit
- Unique Selling Proposition
- UPB
- USP
- Warranty
- White Meeting
Investor
Investor is a general term that may be corporate or individual and covers may investment vehicles For example, investors may put money into buy commodities (e.g. gold, silver, corn, etc.), property (e.g. commercial buildings and residential homes), loans (e.g. to friends, companies, gilts, etc.) as well as buying equity (e.g. quoted companies on LSE, AIM, Plus, and unquoted companies).
Investors may put their own money into a company in exchange for equity and/or loan notes. When investors put money into small companies they may provide mentoring, coaching, advice and connections (in which case they are often termed a “Business Angel”).
