VC Lingo
Coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee who chose the mythical animal to represent the statistical rarity of such successful ventures
What is a Unicorn?
This company’s original business model included DVD sales and rental by mail
Netflix
Home of the Magic Kingdom
What is Disney World?
A machine that acts like a human mind
The most watched ESPN documentary of all time
What is The Last Dance?
Funded by an entrepreneur's personal resources or the company's own revenue
What is bootstrapped?
The average person uses 100 rolls per year
What is toilet paper?
A 15th-century Inca citadel located on a mountain ridge
What is Macchu Picchu?
Offer something new that changes dynamics in a market
What is disrupt?
A controversial live-action made available for streaming in Sept 2020
What is Mulan?
Contractual measures that allow investors to keep a constant share of a firm's equity throughout subsequent equity issuances
What are anti-dilution rights?
This company’s stock price is up about 600% YTD 2020
What is Zoom?
City where you can find Gaudi’s Parc Guell
What is Barcelona?
A spy trained in Japanese martial arts that is frequently requested in tech job postings
True crime documentary miniseries about the life of zookeeper Joe Exotic
The total amount of capital committed by the LPs of a venture capital fund
When this company’s website went down for 49 min, it missed sales of nearly $6M
What is Amazon?
Country featuring the original route for yacht week
What is Croatia?
To be low key and secretive to stay off competitor radars
What is stealth mode?
This marvel movie’s release was delayed by 6 months in 2020
What is Black Widow?
The amount per share that a holder of a given series of Preferred Stock will receive prior to distribution of amounts to holders of other classes of stock
What is liquidation preference?
Many liquor and perfume manufactures switched their manufacturing facilities to produce this in 2020
What is hand sanitizer?
The most photogenic city in Japan
Whta is Kyoto?
Acquire as many users or customers while spending as little as possible
What is growth hacking?
Live stage recording of the 2015 broadway musical of the same name
What is Hamilton?