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Glossary
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"A"
A round
Accredited Investor
Advisory Board
Alpha
Alternative Investments
Angel
Anti-Dilution Provisions
Asset
Asset allocation

"B"
B round
Basis Point
Benchmark
Best Efforts Offering
Beta
BIMBO (Buy-In Management Buy-Out)
Blue Sky
Board of Directors
Book Runner
Book Value
Bootstrapping
Bridge Loan
Burn Rate
Business Development Company (BDC)
Business Plan
Buyout

"C"
C Corporation
Call Date
Call Premium
Call Price
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Capital Call
Capital Distribution
Capital Gains
Carried Interest
Catch-Up
Change of Control Bonus
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Clawback
Closing
Co-Investment Rights
Co-Sale Right
Comparable
Controlling Interest
Conversion
Convertible Debt
Convertible Preferred Stock
Convertible Security
Cost of Capital
Covenant
Coverage Ratio
Cram Down Round

"D"
Deal Flow
Debt Financing
Debt Service
Default
Dilution
Director
Discount Rate
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Distressed Debt
Distribution
Dividends
Down Round
Drag-Along Rights
Drawdown
Drawdown Schedule
Drive-by VC
Due Diligence
Dutch Auction

"E"
Early Stage
Earn Out
Elevator Pitch
Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
Enterprise Value (EV)
Entrepreneur
Equity
Evergreen Fund
Exit Strategy
Expansion Stage

"F"
Fairness Opinion
Firm Commitment
First Refusal
Free Cash Flow (FCF)
Friends & Family Financing
Fully Diluted
Fund-of-Funds

"G"
Gatekeepers
General Partner (GP)
Going-Private Transactions
Golden Handcuffs
Growth Stage

"H"
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
Harvest
High Yield Debt
Hockey Stick
Holding Period
Hurdle Rate

"I"
In-Kind Distribution
Incorporation
Incubator
Indenture
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Inside Round
Institutional Investors
Intellectual Property
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Investment Thesis / Investment Philosophy

"J"
J Curve
Junior Debt
Junk bond

"K"
Key Personnel

"L"
Later Stage
Lead Investor
Letter of Intent
Leverage
Leverage Ratio
Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Limited Partner (LP)
Limited Partnership
Liquidation
Liquidation Preference
Liquidity Discount
Liquidity Event
Lock-Up Agreement
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)

"M"
Management Buy-In (MBI)
Management Buyout (MBO)
Management Fee
Management Rights
Market Capitalization
Mezzanine
Middle Stage
Milestones
Multiples

"N"
No-Shop Clause
Non-Compete
Non-Cumulative Dividends
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
Non-Interference
Non-Solicitation

"O"
Offering Memorandum
Optics
Original Issue Discount (OID)
Orphan
Oversubscription

"P"
Pari Passu
Pay to Play
PEIGG
Placement Agent
Portfolio Company
Post-Money Valuation
PPM
Pre-Money Valuation
Preemptive Rights
Preference
Preferred Return
Preferred Stock
Primary Shares
Private Equity
Private Investment in Public Equities (PIPES)
Private Placement
Private Placement Memorandum (PPM)
Private Securities
Prospectus
Prudent Man Rule
Purchase Method

"Q"
Qualified Client
Qualified Institutional Buyer
Qualified Investor
Qualified Purchaser

"R"
Ratchet
Realization Ratio
Recapitalization
Redeemable Preferred
Redemption Rights
Registration
Registration Rights
Regulation D
Restricted Shares
Right of First Refusal
Rights of Co-Sale with Founders
Rights Offering
Road Show
Rollup
Round
Rule 144

"S"
S Corporation
Scalability
Scale-Down
Scale-Up
Search Fund
Secondary Market
Secondary shares
Section 10B SEA-34
Secured Debt
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Security
Seed Capital
Seed Stage
Senior Debt
Series A preferred stock
Sharpe-Ratio
Small Business Investment Company (SBIC)
Spin Out
Stock
Stock Option
Strategic Investor
Subordinated Debt
Sweat Equity
Syndicate

"T"
Tag-Along Right
Takedown
Takeover
Tender Offer
Term Loan
Term Sheet
Tranche
Turnaround

"U"
Under Water Option
Underwriter
Unsecured Debt

"V"
Venture Capital
Vesting
Vintage
Voting Rights

"W"
Warrant
Washout Round
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Write-Down
Write-Off
Write-Up

"Z"
Zombie
 
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