The following are typical words heard in the world of entrepreneurship:
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Accelerator | Hub where start-ups are given mentorship, space to work on their ideas and sometimes seed capital |
| Acquisition | When one company or investment group buys another company |
| ANZIC | Australian and New Zealand standard industrial classification |
| Bootstrapping | Financing the business via friends and family to prove the hypothesis |
| B2B | Business to Business |
| B2C | Business to Consumer |
| B2G | Business to Government |
| Burn rate | How fast you go through cash, normally measured by month |
| Cash flow | Earning minus expenses, funds coming in and going out |
| Churn rate | Percentage at which customers are being lost as part of the total |
| Crowdfunding | Using a website to raise capital to get individuals as a group to fund |
| Crowdsourcing | Using a website to get information from individuals as a group |
| Exit strategy | How you plan to sell the company and provide ROI to investors |
| Growth hacking | Affordable marketing to quickly grow number of clients |
| Intellectual property (IP) | Patents, trademarks and copyright |
| Lean start-up | Startup that operates with not much capital |
| MVP | Minimum viable product |
| Pitch deck | Presentation used to raise money |
| Pivot | Change in the direction of the company |
| ROI | Return on investment |
| SAAS | Software as a service |
| Scalable | Ability to grow a sustainable business |
| SME | Small to medium enterprises |
| Term sheet | Document outlining what investors will receive for their investment |
| Unicorn | Worth more than one billion dollars |
| UI | User interface |
| UX | User experience |
| Valuation | Value of the company |
| Value proposition | Why clients will choose you |
| VC | Venture capitalist |
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