| business pitch | Business-Pitch | presenting your business model to investors or customers in hope to receive funding and/or sales |
| equity | Eigenkapital | the value of a company’s shares |
| valuation | Einschätzung | estimated (monetary) value |
| patent | Patent | the right to use your idea in any way you like and to prevent others from doing so |
| patent pending | Patent ausstehend | designation that can be used once a patent is filed, but it’s approval is still pending |
| stake | Anteil | a part or share in a business |
| proprietary | propreitär | protected by a registered trademark |
| customer acquisition costs | Kundengewinnungskosten | costs of getting a customer to buy something (marketing costs) |
| distribution | Vertrieb | the system of transporting and delivering a product |
| licensing | Lizensierung | sharing the patent rights or trademark of a product to a 3rd-party under specific terms |
| business model | Geschäftsmodell | how a business makes money and operates |
| proof of concept | Prototyp | a rough draft of a product that can be showcased |
| sweat equity | Arbeitsinvestment | work one does to build up value without direct monetary gain, e.g. when a homeowner renovates their home to increase its value |
| royalty | Lizenzgebühren | profits from licensing |
| market value | Marktwert | value of something on the market (if it were sold) |
| margin | Marge | the part of a sale that is profit (sale price - costs = margin) |
| liquidity | Liquidität | funds that can be easily exchanged for cash and cash |
| break even | Unkosten decken | making just enough revenue to cover all costs so that the profit is zero or near zero |
| point of sale / POS | Kasse | where sales in a store are made / what is operated by the cashier |
| budget | Budget | available money |
| ability | Fähigkeit | skill |
| accrued expenses | Rückstellungen | expenses for which there is no invoice but which occur regularly |
| business cycle | | series of phases in a business in which economy increases and then decreases |
| trade | Handel | when at least two parties exchange products and/or monetary |
| profit | Profit | the amount of money gained per business cycle or time, basically the sum of all margins for all sales in that period |
| agreement | Zustimmung | promise or contract between two or more parties |
| stock market | Aktienmarkt | market where shares of stocks are sold |
| fundraising | | collecting money from people for a cause |
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