Disrupting disruption with disruptive disruptions since 2010.
Large organizations like pension funds, insurance companies, or endowments that invest in venture funds, adding legitimacy and money but no direct feedback.
A professional investor who manages pools of money from institutions and wealthy individuals, and who will explain why your startup needs to 10x to be worthwhile.
A spreadsheet showing who owns what percentage of your company, updated regularly as you dilute yourself with more funding rounds.
A wooden stick driven into the ground to mark territory or prop things up, or in the business world, the percentage ownership or financial commitment you have in a deal. High stakes mean high risk and high reward; low stakes mean you're testing the waters.
Built entirely in-house by internal team without external consultants or enterprise solutions; a diplomatic term meaning 'we did this ourselves with our budget and talent level.'
Financially obliterated; what happens when you've spent all your capital on ideas that looked good on a napkin at 2 AM. A state every entrepreneur fears and half have experienced.
In startup context: begging investors for money while pretending your MVP with zero revenue is worth millions. The permanent state of a founder's existence between pivots.