Venture Capital / Underwriting / IPOs Terms

  1. "A" Round Financing

  2. Accelerated Bookbuild

  3. Adventure Capitalist

  4. Allotment

  5. Alphabet Rounds

  6. Angel Investor

  7. Archangel

  8. Asset Stripper

  9. Assimilation

  10. Back Door Listing

  11. Back Stop

  12. Backstop Purchaser

  13. Best Efforts

  14. Blitzkrieg Tender Offer

  15. Blue Sky Laws

  16. Book Building

  17. Book Runner

  18. Booster Shot

  19. Bootstrap

  20. Bought Deal

  21. Breaking The Syndicate

  22. Breakup Fee

  23. Bridge Financing

  24. Brought Over The Wall

  25. Bulge Bracket

  26. Burn Rate

  27. Business Development Company - BDC

  28. Buy, Strip And Flip

  29. Buy-In Management Buyout - BIMBO

  30. Capitalization Table

  31. Carve-Out

  32. Committed Capital

  33. Competitive Bid

  34. Concept Company

  35. Concession

  36. Countertrend Strategy

  37. Crammed Down

  38. Credit Sleeve

  39. Dawn Raid

  40. Death Valley Curve

  41. Deficiency Letter

  42. Depository Trust Company Tracking - DTCT

  43. Devolvement

  44. Diluted Founders

  45. Dilution Protection

  46. Direct Public Offering - DPO

  47. Down Round

  48. Drive-By Deal

  49. Due Diligence Meeting

  50. Earnout

  51. Escalator Pitch

  52. Exit Option

  53. Exit Strategy

  54. Expansion Option

  55. Fabless Company

  56. Fat Man Strategy

  57. Final Prospectus

  58. Firm Commitment

  59. Flotation

  60. Flotation Cost

  61. Follow-On Offering

  62. Freed Up

  63. Friendly Hands

  64. Fully Subscribed

  65. General Public Distribution

  66. Going Private

  67. Greensheet

  68. Greenshoe Option

  69. Grey Market

  70. Gross Spread

  71. Horizontal Acquisition

  72. Hot IPO

  73. Hot Issue

  74. Impact Day

  75. Incubator Firm

  76. Indication of Interest - IOI

  77. Initial Public Offering - IPO

  78. Installment Receipt

  79. Institutional Buyout - IBO

  80. Investment Bank - IB

  81. IPO Lock-Up

  82. Issue

  83. Joint Venture - JV

  84. Jointly and Severally

  85. Laddering

  86. Layoff

  87. Lead Underwriter

  88. Lehman Formula

  89. Liquidation Preference

  90. Liquidity Path

  91. Listed Security

  92. Lock-Up Agreement

  93. Love Money

  94. Management Buy-In - MBI

  95. Market Standoff Agreement

  96. Maturity by Maturity Bidding - MBM

  97. Merger Of Equals

  98. Minority IPO

  99. NASD Rule 2790

  100. Negotiated Sale

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