Alphabet Soup
Kitchen Sink
Prime Time Innovation
It's Soft but You Can't Wear It
Show Me the Money
100
The first time a company sells its common stock to the public.
What is an IPO - Initial Public Offering?
100
A common feature of convertible securities designed to preserve an investors original ownership percentage.
What is a full ratchet?
100
TV series focused on the adventures of a captain and his crew as they seek out new life and civilizations and boldly go where no man has gone before.
What is Star Trek?
100
Distributing or accessing programs and services across the Internet.
What is cloud computing?
100
When a company raises a round of venture funding at a valuation lower than it had previously.
What is a down round?
200
A supplier firm that offers a contract service in testing, clinical trials, manufacturing, etc.
What is a CRO - Contract Research Organization?
200
The practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people.
What is crowdfunding?
200
TV show about two brilliant physicists who are geniuses in the lab but socially challenged everywhere else.
What is Big Bang Theory?
200
The stage of software development the commences when the software feature is complete but likely contains a number of known or unknown bugs.
What is Beta?
200
The industry term for the special provision in an IPO prospectus, which allows underwriters to sell investors more shares than originally planned by the issuer.
What is a Greenshoe Option?
300
Thought leaders that play an important role in many companies marketing strategies.
What is a KOL - Key Opinion Leader?
300
A piece of technology that changes the landscape of an industry by either creating a new market by displacing an old one or by improving a product so exponentially that the old versions are barely recognizable.
What is disruptive technology?
300
The critically-acclaimed reality show that has reinvigorated entrepreneurship in America, that has also become a culturally defining series.
What is Shark Tank?
300
A way to design a website service at a structural level which takes into account user needs and journeys in the layout of the content and functionality.
What is Wireframing?
300
The terms used for a start-up company valued at over $1 billion and $10 billion.
What is a Unicorn and Decacorn?
400
The marketing stage at which all necessary commercialization activities have been completed and a software product is available for purchase.
What is GA - general availability?
400
Data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.
What is big data?
400
A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as an engineer in the late 1980s.
What is Silicon Valley?
400
The terms for the software design practices that focus on optimization of a product for effective and enjoyable use and the practice focused on the look, feel and presentation of a product.
What is UXD (User Experience Design) and UID (User Interface Design)?
400
A private investment firm's, a mutual fund's or another qualified investor's purchase of stock in a company at a discount to the current market value per share for the purpose of raising capital.
What is a PIPE - Private Investment in Public Equity?
500
A category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.
What is PAAS or platform as a service?
500
When one company buys another the talent of the employees rather than the targets operating business or technology.
What is an acqui-hire?
500
Set in the early 1980s, this series dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie.
What is Halt and Catch Fire?
500
The development technique popularized by Eric Ries in which a product or website is released in a pared down state which will be further developed based on user feedback.
What is MVP - Minimal Viable Product?
500
The term for the main underwriter in a equity, debt or hybrid security offering.
What is a bookrunner?
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