Tech Basics
Quick explainers for common tech terms.
API
How different pieces of software talk to each other.
Cloud
Renting computing power instead of owning the machines.
SaaS
Software you rent as a subscription, not something you install once.
B2B vs B2C
Who's actually buying — a business, or a regular person.
ARR
The yardstick SaaS companies use to measure how big they are.
CRM
The database companies use to keep track of every customer relationship.
Startup vs Scale-up
Same energy, very different stage — and different day-to-day.
FinTech
Technology built to move, manage, or understand money.
Big Tech
The handful of massive companies that shape most of the industry.
Technical vs Non-Technical Careers
Whether a job is mostly about building the product, or about the business around it.
Open Source
Software anyone can see, use, and help improve — for free.
Agile / Scrum
A way tech teams plan work in short cycles instead of one long plan.
UX/UI
How a product feels to use (UX) and how it looks (UI).
Machine Learning
Software that gets better at a task by learning from examples, not fixed rules.
DevOps
The practice of getting code from a developer's laptop to real users, smoothly.
Product-Market Fit
The moment a product finally solves a problem people actually pay for.
Venture Capital & Funding Rounds
How startups raise money before they're profitable, in stages like Seed and Series A.
Remote / Hybrid Work
Working fully from home, fully in an office, or some mix of both.
Tech Stack
The specific set of tools and languages a team uses to build their product.
No-Code / Low-Code
Building software by dragging and configuring instead of writing code line by line.