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[edit] Accredited Investor
A term used by the SEC to describe an investor who meets certain financial standards and can qualify for purchases of certain types of securities exempt from registration.
[edit] Aggregation
A term frequently used in defining characteristics of Web 2.0. It is the collection of information from multiple web sites based on a keyword or a set of keywords and then reformatted and redistributed. This is typically done via RSS.
Short for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a way of programming Websites using several programming languages with JavaScript joining them together.
[edit] Angel Investor
An individual who invests his or her own money in a start-up or privately held company. The intent of the investment is to get a higher rate of return.
[edit] Apache
Open source HTTP Web server software to handle web requests and serve up web resources. Apache Home Page.
Acronym for application program interface, the source code used by a programmer so that a program can communicate with other programs.
[edit] Articles of Incorporation
The Articles of Incorporation or AOI is the identity of a corporation and a copy is often requested for identification by investors, banks, and business partners.
Short for Weblog. A Website has content very similar to a journal or newsletter and based on a specific subject. The entries are in reverse chronological order and are made by one individual or a group. Typically, viewers are invited to respond to the entries.
[edit] Blogroll
A list of and links to related blogs found in the sidebar of a blog. “Blogrolls” can be manually generated.
[edit] Bridge Loan
A short term loan that bridges the gap between the termination of one loan and the beginning of another.
[edit] Closing
The signing all documents required to transfer ownership from seller to buyer.
[edit] Convertible Note
A convertible note is a loan to a company with an interest rate. The investor (e.g. Angel Investor) has the option to convert the entire principal amount of the note into equity when an institutional investor (e.g. Venture Capitalist) makes an investment.
[edit] Debt Financing
The act of borrowing money for working capital or to make capital expenditures. The money is accumulated by selling by selling bonds, bills, or notes to investors, who are promised repayment of the principle and interest on the debt.
[edit] Due Diligence
A process of inspection that a venture capital or other private equity firm carries out before closing on a deal. It is typically a review a company’s accounting practices and managerial structure.
[edit] Folksonomy
A way of collaboratively classifying Websites. It is a practice used in social networking sites where users can tag Website content -- pages, images, links, etc. – with keywords of their choosing, and the system automatically categorizes them.
[edit] Follow-on Investment
Be subsequent or 'follow-on ' rounds of funding after an initial round of funding is made by an existing investor.
[edit] Full Ratchet
An anti-dilution provision that protects the original investors if the company issues equity at a lower valuation then in previous financing rounds.
[edit] Permalink
Short for "permanent link". It is a specific link that readers can use to bookmark a blog post.
[edit] Indemnification
Financial protection provided by a corporation to its directors, officers, and employees against expenses and liabilities incurred by them in lawsuits alleging that they breached some duty in their service to or on behalf of the corporation.
[edit] Investment Bank
A bank that acts as an agent between the issuer of securities and the investors by providing advisory services. They also are involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions, private equity placements and corporate restructuring.
Acronym for “Initial Public Offering.” It is the first time a company sells shares openly to the public on the stock market.
[edit] Lead Investor
The company’s primary investor, such as a venture capital firm, that organizes the financing with other investors.
[edit] Liquidation Preference
When a company is liquidated, any assets will be used to pay off investors in order of priority.
[edit] Lock-up Period
In an Initial Public Offering (IPO), it is the period of time determined by the underwriters in which an investor must wait before selling or trading company shares subsequent to an exit.
[edit] Mashup
Named after a type of hip-hop music where two or more songs of different styles are remixed. A Website that collects and reformats unrelated or competing information or services.
[edit] Mezzanine Financing
A final stage of financing prior to a company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO).
[edit] Microformats
Simple codes that identify specific kinds of data on Webpages, so that the information can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined.
[edit] Moblogging
Short for “mobile blogging.” Using a mobile device – digital camera, PDA, cell phone – to remotely update a blog with text, images, audio, or video.
[edit] Movable Type
Proprietary software for creating, publishing and maintaining blogs. It is written in Perl and backed by MySQL, and offers the widely used TrackBack feature. SixApart Home Page.
Open source database based on the structure query language (SQL). It is commonly used with Websites for adding, removing, and modifying information in a database. MySQL Home Page.
[edit] Newsreader
A newsreader can refer to one of two things: a program allows you to read messages posted to Internet newsgroups, and to post your own messages, or it can refer to an RSS newsreader, a program that lets you subscribe to and view RSS feeds.
An acronym for Outline Processor Markup Language. An XML-based format for describing outline-based content and allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments.
[edit] Pari Passu
Latin term for “without partiality.” It indicates that two series of equity will have the same rights and privileges.
Acronym for “php Bulletin Board.” A free, open source bulletin board package based on the PHP scripting language and supports MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers
[edit] Podcast
The name is a combination of “iPOD” and “broadcast.” It is an audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. Listeners can subscribe to a podcast through an RSS feed and is updated each time a new podcast has been published.
[edit] Postgres
A free object-relational database management system. Postgres Home Page.
[edit] Private Placement
A security offering to a limited number of investors.
An acronym for “Rich Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication.” A form of Web syndication used by Websites and blogs using XML format, it allows the distribution of news headlines and other content on the Web to interested users. RSS allows a person's computer to obtain and understand the information, so that all of the lists that person is interested in can be tracked and personalized for them.
[edit] Ruby on Rails
Also known as RoR. It is an open-source framework for Web development in Ruby, an object-oriented programming language. RoR Home Page.
[edit] Seed Capital
Early stage financing used to develop a business idea or project.
[edit] Search Engine Optimization, or SEO
The process of organizing Website content so it ranks high in various search engines when someone searches for specific phrases related to the site.
[edit] Series A
The initial round of stock offering during the seed or pre-IPO stage of a company.
[edit] Social Bookmarking
An activity in which people share their Website bookmarks. Instead of creating a bookmark in a browser, they are made to a publicly accessible Websites. Some Websites classify the bookmarks with tags or keywords and use Folksonomy to rank the bookmarked site content.
[edit] Social Networking
Using the Internet to network and communicate with other people who share a similar interest, purpose, social status or goal. Networking and communication is typically done via a Website that is dedicated to bringing people together.
Keywords in the form of HTML code that help Internet users to classify, rank, share and locate specific information.
[edit] Tag Cloud
Also called a “weighted list,” it is a way of visually displaying a compilation of tags in text with the most popular topics in a larger or bolder font. It allows visitors of a site to quickly determine what topics are represented.
[edit] Term Sheet
A preliminary document used by a potential investor to initiate and expedite investment negotiations. A term sheet is legally non-binding and summarizes the size and conditions of the investment that the investor is willing to accept. After negotiations are settled, the document is reviewed by legal counsel and a binding, long-form legal agreement is generated and signed by all parties.
[edit] TrackBack
Used in most blogging tools, it is a signal or ping to a blogger that someone has written about his or her blog.
[edit] vBulletin
A community forum authoring tool used to run large boards or discussion groups. It uses PHP as the scripting language and MySQL as the back-end data base. vBulletin Home Page, vBulletin Support Forums. The Startupping Forums are powered by vBulletin.
[edit] Venture Capital or VC
It is an equity investment, or “seed money,” that is typically associated with early-stage or pre-IPO companies.
[edit] Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
A technology that transfers voice and or video over common networking equipment. Used as an Intranet Private Business Exchange (IPBX) a company can save on hardware and teleco trunk lines.
[edit] Web 2.0
A term coined in 2004 by O’Reilly Media. The exact definition is still in debate, However, O’Reilly Media’s definition from the O’Reilly Radar Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices report is: “Web 2.0 is a set of economic, social, and technology trends that collectively form the basis for the next generation of the Internet—a more mature, distinctive medium characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects.”
A Website that uses a collaborative editing tool that allows a community of users to add and edit site content from their computer directly to the site. The term “Wiki” is short for the Hawaiian word “Wikiwiki,” which means fast.
[edit] Wordpress
A free open source blog authoring system written in PHP and MySQL, and boasts ease-of-installation and ease-of-use. Wordpress Home Page.