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What is a lead investor?
On TechCrunch, I often see articles saying
Company FooBar raised $10M in a Series A round, lead by Ventures Inc.
In this context, who are "Ventures Inc"? What does it mean that they lead the ...
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What is an entrepreneur?
Are business owners (ecommerce) considered entrepreneurs too?
Many times I hear only technology startup founders categorized as such, but I seldom hear of business owners called entrepreneurs.
We ...
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What is the title of someone that produces website content from technical documents?
I am willing to hire a person who will take our technical documents (internal) and produce the content for our website, that is, describe the product in a clear way.
What title shall I use, if I want ...
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What is a roll-out plan?
What is a roll-out plan? I tried searching on Google, but without much success. I found http://www.project-open.org/en/tutorial_rollout_plan, but I still don't understand what a roll-out plan is for a ...
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Is there a word for “don't dilute my shares faster than yours”?
I am entering discussions where the subject of me receiving equity in a company might be brought up.
I would like to know if there is a common business term (manner-of-speaking term) for an ...
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What is 'Surplus of Revenue'?
What is the definition of 'surplus of revenue'? My textbook's explanation of revenue doesn't cover this.
For some context, here is a question from my textbook:
In the financial year 2008-2009, ...
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What does anti-dilution protection mean in a term-sheet?
My question is in the context of a Term-sheet. I want to know what does anti-dilution preferences mean?
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Difference between stakeholder, stockholder, and shareholder
I want to start a C corp, and I keep coming across the following terms: stakeholder, stockholder, and shareholder. What's the difference between them? I'd appreciate a clear explanation in layman's ...
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Protecting myself with a new business venture at the VP
I really need advice in how to protect myself with a new venture I took on.
In January 2011, I became an adviser and sat on the board to a beverage company as I taught the CEO about channel ...
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What is Soft ROI?
I have heard some people use the term, for example in this video but I cannot find a precise definition of the concept online.
What is soft ROI?
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What is the definition of a non-profit startup?
I have seen some entrepreneurs use the term non-profit startup. What exactly is a non-profit startup?
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What is the definition of capital account?
It seems that it's a virtual term. It is not a bank account. It is the net result of gains-losses. And it seems that there are two types of such accounts – the llc's, and members'. The account should ...
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What's this business model/marketing style called?
What is the name of a business model where you offer a product for free to entice people to use your service? I'm not referring to freemium. I am more talking about how Google works. They offer ...
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What is a legal entity, specifically in Apple's terms?
What exactly is a legal entity?
I am trying to form a sole-proprietorship company in the state of California. Is this
considered a legal entity? How can I set up the name for this company, other than ...
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What is the difference between a Payment Processor and a Merchant Account and Payment Gateway?
I'm also wondering what each of those does. Seems like with the Ecommerce solution I'm considering that everytime I think I've got it all figured out, it turns out that we need yet another service to ...
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What does “route to market” mean?
I am new to being an entrepreneur and still pretty young. I was asked what my 'route to market' is.
What is the definition of this? Is it how I bring my product to a point of a sale?
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What is a registered agent?
I'm researching how to start an LLC. I found a site called LegalZoom and when you fill out the forms, one question they ask is:
Who will serve as the Limited Liability Company's registered agent?
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What is founder's stock?
What does it mean when a consultant ask for founders stock in a pre-funded startup for payment? Is it a special class of stock? Is it non-dilutible?
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Books necessary for a completely newbie
I am a recent graduate and soon I am starting my own company in the IT/Tech. Because always all of my studies were mostly technical(computer programming,coding,...) and do not have that much work ...
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What is the difference between a startup and a small business?
I've had a conversation with some friends recently on the differences between a startup and a small business. One of my friends said that a startup in a brand new company, which aims to scale fast and ...
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What is the difference between a USP and a slogan?
What's the difference between a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) and a slogan?
I'm thinking the USP is more descriptive. I have a slogan that I think is really catchy and descriptive in conjunction ...
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What's the difference between customer, client, user and consumer?
My company sells fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product.
How would one call an entity subscribed for a free service and distinguishably name another that ...
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What's the difference between a retailer, dealer and trader?
What's the difference between a retailer, dealer and trader? Do they all mean the same thing?
Are they all buying goods from distributors and selling them to consumers, and therefore at the end of ...
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At what point is a startup no longer a 'startup'
Is it revenue, profit, number of staff, does it even matter?
If you've been at the coal face for a good 4 to 5 years do potential investors want to hear that you're still in startup mode - whatever ...
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How do you define a startup?
I'm curious what peoples definitions are of a startup company? When does a company cease to simply be a startup? Does it have to be tech related?
