Business C1 · Lesson 5B
Every word and expression from this lesson — with definitions, synonyms and examples.
the structure that forecloses the background and foregrounds a single ask or metric
'what matters is / what we're solving for is' — the emphatic structure that centres the one thing the sentence is about
a short piece of financing between two priced rounds, priced to buy time, not to price value
monthly net cash outflow — a metric investors read faster than revenue
the ownership structure — what every future round will be re-priced against
'it was X who…' — the sentence that gives a specific person weight in the room
the percentage of the cap table a founder gives up in each round — cheap to underestimate
capital released in stages against pre-agreed operational milestones
'what we are not going to do is…' — the discipline sentence that names the leak dressed as progress
the single number a company organises its weekly review around
the decision, made before the meeting, about which single thing the sentence will centre
the number of months of cash a company has at the current burn rate — the sentence that ends every board meeting
the per-customer or per-order profitability that decides whether growth is a virtue or a leak