QSR – Quick Service Restaurant
📌 QSR stands for Quick Service Restaurant—offering fast, affordable meals with minimal wait time.
📌 It focuses on speed, limited seating, and a simple, streamlined menu.
HORECA – Hotel, Restaurant & Café
📌 HORECA stands for Hotel, Restaurant, and Café—core sectors of the food and hospitality industry.
📌 It covers businesses that prepare and serve food or drinks to customers.
Valuation
📌 Valuation is the estimated worth of a company or asset at a specific time.
📌 It’s based on current performance and future potential—not just today’s revenue or profit.
Branding – clean and simple
📌 Branding is the emotional and visual identity of your business—not just a logo or name.
📌 It shapes how customers feel, remember you, and connects your values with your audience.
White Labelling
📌 White labelling is when one company makes a product, and another rebrands and sells it as its own.
📌 The branding company adds its logo and identity, but doesn’t create the product itself.
Gross Markup
📌 Gross Markup is the added amount over cost to set the selling price.
📌 It shows profit over cost, typically in ₹ and as a percentage of cost, not price.
PAT – Profit After Tax
📌 PAT (Profit After Tax) is the company’s net profit after all expenses and taxes are deducted.
📌 Also known as net income, it’s the final profit available to shareholders.
Gross margin
📌 Gross Margin shows how much profit a company makes after subtracting the cost of goods sold.
📌 It reflects core profitability before expenses like rent, salaries, and taxes.
Prototype
📌 A prototype is an early, simplified version of a product built to test ideas before full development.
📌 It helps save time and money, improve design, and attract early investors or partners.
D2C – Direct to Consumer
📌 D2C is a business model where companies sell directly to customers, skipping intermediaries.
📌 Instead of Manufacturer → Wholesaler → Retailer → Customer, it’s Manufacturer → Customer.
Bootstrapping
📌 Bootstrapping is building a business without external funding—no investors or loans.
📌 Founders rely on personal savings, early sales, and reinvested profits to grow.
OTC – Over the Counter
📌 OTC refers to products or assets traded directly between two parties, without a formal exchange.
📌 Deals are made privately through brokers or dealers, and prices may not be publicly listed.
DST – Department of Science and Technology
📌 DST is a key Indian drives scientific research, innovation, and tech development across India.
📌 It functions under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India.
GPM – Gross Profit Margin
📌 Gross Margin shows how efficiently a company produces and sells its goods.
📌 It’s the percentage of revenue left after subtracting COGS—used to cover expenses and profit.
SKU- Stock Keeping Unit
📌 SKU is a unique code for each product variant, used to track and manage inventory.
📌 It simplifies stock control, speeds up billing, and avoids mix-ups between similar items.
SAFE Notes
📌 SAFE Note is a simple agreement where investors fund a startup now and receive equity later during a future round or exit.
📌 It offers no immediate equity, interest, or repayments—making it founder-friendly and flexible.
QSR – Quick Service Restaurant
📌 QSR stands for Quick Service Restaurant—offering fast, affordable meals with minimal wait time.
📌 It focuses on speed, limited seating, and a simple, streamlined menu.
HORECA – Hotel, Restaurant, and Café
📌 HORECA stands for Hotel, Restaurant, and Café—core sectors of the food and hospitality industry.
📌 It covers businesses that prepare and serve food or drinks to customers.
Branding
📌 Branding is the emotional and visual identity of your business—not just a logo or name.
📌 It shapes how customers feel, remember you, and connects your values with your audience.
Valuation
📌 Valuation is the estimated worth of a company or asset at a specific time.
📌 It’s based on current performance and future potential—not just today’s revenue or profit.
Gross Margin
📌 Gross Margin shows how much profit a company makes after subtracting the cost of goods sold.
📌 It reflects core profitability before expenses like rent, salaries, and taxes.
Gross Markup
📌 Gross Markup is the added amount over cost to set the selling price.
📌 It shows profit over cost, typically in ₹ and as a percentage of cost, not price.
Prototype
📌 A prototype is an early, simplified version of a product built to test ideas before full development.
📌 It helps save time and money, improve design, and attract early investors or partners.
Bootstrapping
📌 Bootstrapping is building a business without external funding—no investors or loans.
📌 Founders rely on personal savings, early sales, and reinvested profits to grow.
D2C- Direct to Consumer
📌 D2C is a business model where companies sell directly to customers, skipping intermediaries.
📌 Instead of Manufacturer → Wholesaler → Retailer → Customer, it’s Manufacturer → Customer.
️ White Labelling
📌 White labelling is when one company makes a product, and another rebrands and sells it as its own.
📌 The branding company adds its logo and identity, but doesn’t create the product itself.
OTC- Over the Counter
📌 OTC refers to products or assets traded directly between two parties, without a formal exchange.
📌 Deals are made privately through brokers or dealers, and prices may not be publicly listed.
PAT – Profit After Tax
📌 PAT (Profit After Tax) is the company’s net profit after all expenses and taxes are deducted.
📌 Also known as net income, it’s the final profit available to shareholders.
GPM – Gross Profit Margin
📌 A QSR is a food outlet that offers fast, convenient, and affordable meals.
📌 It emphasises speed of service, low waiting times, limited seating, and a simplified menu.
DST – Department of Science and Technology
📌 DST (Department of Science & Technology) drives scientific research, innovation, and tech development across India.
📌 It functions under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India.
SKU – Stock Keeping Unit
📌 SKU is a unique code for each product variant, used to track and manage inventory.
📌 It simplifies stock control, speeds up billing, and avoids mix-ups between similar items.
Safe Note
📌 SAFE Note is a simple agreement where investors fund a startup now and receive equity later during a future round or exit.
📌 It offers no immediate equity, interest, or repayments—making it founder-friendly and flexible.
QSR – Quick Service Restaurant
📌 QSR stands for Quick Service Restaurant—offering fast, affordable meals with minimal wait time.
📌 It focuses on speed, limited seating, and a simple, streamlined menu.
HORECA – Hotel, Restaurant, and Café
📌 HORECA stands for Hotel, Restaurant, and Café—core sectors of the food and hospitality industry.
📌 It covers businesses that prepare and serve food or drinks to customers.
Branding
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