30.07 The mother of invention

A stake in the company

A share or portion of ownership in a business

Pour money into the business

To invest a lot of money in business often without holding back

Remortgage the house

To take out a new or larger loan against your house usually to raise cash

Making a loss

Earning less money than was spent; operating at a deficit

Double turnover

To make the total sales revenue twice as much as before

Potential partners

Who might become business partners

Branch out

To start doing new different activities beyond your usual business

To diversify

To expand into a wider range of products or markets to reduce risk

Core business

Main activity a company does

Cease trading

To stop operating as business permanently

To see a return on investment

To start gaining profit or benefit from money that was invested

Flooded with orders

To receive a huge number of orders very suddenly

Break even

To reach a point where income equals costs

To be taken over

When another company buys/gains control of your company

To resign as CEO

To formally quit the position of CEO