Career Fair
A time when recruiters try to get commission and college students desperately try to get their first taste of the real world. B.S is at a maximum.
David: Hey did you go to that career fair last week? Kara: Yeah, gotta look for those jobs David: Mo money, less problems
willgr81 about 8 years agoBro Rata
A term used to describe your commitment to investing in your friendship every round even when it's going down to the right.
A term coined by Startup L. Jackson.
Tony: Friend, I'm going to be spending more time with you in order to maintain my bro rata in you. I just can't risk losing my stake anymore.
Steven: Seriously, you're gonna do that after you went out with my girlfriend?!
svhunt almost 9 years agoSoylent Diet
Refers to the diet of busy entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Instead of eating like normal human beings these entrepreneurs drink Soylent, a powered meal replacement, because it is more efficient than chewing and using knife and fork.
Check out this New York Times article for more about this interesting phenomenon.
Matthew: Wow have you heard of Soylent? It will allow me to work throughout the day without wasting any time to eat like these foodies out here. I only wish it came in a backpack so I could attach a feeding tube between it and my stomach and have it on the go.
zazpowered almost 9 years agoAggregate
To list material from different websites over the Internet in one place.
There are hubdreds of news agregators on the Internet.
GoogleEngineer over 8 years agoBoat Anchor
Computer so obsolete, It no longer Serves a purpose (i.e. Apple III's)
"Whoa! That's a boat anchor."
iamDeveloper almost 9 years agoI think you get it a little wrong. 'Apple-III' is a COLLECTOR'S item/VINTAGE & hence it is not used generally or it does not serves the purpose in present time. So both Apple-III and 286 PC are Boat Anchors. :)
Prorata Rights
Prorata investment rights give investors the right to invest in a startup’s future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership percentage in the company as the company grows and raises more capital.
Erlich kept his Prorata Investment Rights in Grindr allowing him to keep his 10% share as more investors started also investing their money on the application.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoperpetual-pivotation
When a start-up pivots so many times it can no longer stop it's pivoting creating an endless cycle of changing your business direction or purpose.
founder 1: "we should change this B2B to a B2C with a B2B SaaS back-end admin console"
founder 2: " yeah but just yesterday we were the uber for cat-sitting, if we keep pivoting we may never stop and end up in a perpetual-pivotation.
punnybusinessman over 7 years agoalphabet
The parent company of Google along with a handful of other companies. You can think of Alphabet as a mega company who owns a ton of shit.
My friends have been making fun of me ever since Google changed its name. Being an Alphabet employee sorta sounds embarrassing for some reason.
GoogleEngineer over 8 years agoDelivery
One of the species of apps that keep getting made. They're really just digitized indexes of local businesses that market their service really well, get cheap couriers, and establish good partnerships with local vendors. They're not quite scalable, but many have become profitable parts of their community (DoorDash, WeDeliver). It is estimated that every year:
Hundreds of thousands of variants of delivery apps are pitched
Thousands are built to an MVP
A couple hundred end up creating a sustainable business around delivering things faster at a local scale
Anna: So what do you do for a living Josh?
Joshua: Oh I own DeliverData, a Delivery app that delivers stuff faster
Anna: That's nifty! At least your company's name makes sense
willgr81 about 8 years ago
Swag
Clothes and household items given to you by your company to indirectly promote it and create a sense of pride for. To many, it's an unfortunate, but inevitable spending of startup dollars.
I got hired Thursday and Grindr just gave me some awesome swag to celebrate my hire. I got a t-shirt, a coffee mug, a sticker, and protein powder.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoSellsword Engineer
An engineer with almost no personal startup ambition who sells his talents to the highest bidder. They are often silent unless spoken too and in many instances perceived as judging you without even hearing them speak a word. If your a startup founder, you must be ready to spend some serious coin to recruit one these guys and girls.
Even though he'd worked at Twitter for years building out many of their core products, he had no hesitation switching to Google X, when they offered him 10k more a year.
GoogleEngineer over 8 years agoY Combinator
A higher-order function that satisfies the "fixed point theorem"
Professor: "We have Y = [\f . (\x . f(xx) ) . (\x . f(xx)) ], that we call the Y-Combinator"
Business student: "SORRY PROFESSOR BUT YOU ARE WRONG. Y COMBINATOR IS AN INCUMBATOR OK???"
Professor: "Please calm down Michael, Paul Graham is indeed very inspired, and enthusiastic about lambda calculus but this..."
Business student: "NO HE IS THE FOUNDER OF Y-COMBINATOR, I HAVE PROOFS"
Professor: "Sigh."
freefunctor almost 9 years agoAirbnb
A website for people to rent out lodging. An example of a dumb sounding idea that turned out really well.
VC: So let me get this straight. A stranger will come into your house and sleep on an air mattress? and then you will give them breakfast? and you think it will be worth $25 billion one day? I know the market is really hot for founders right now but you need to do something else.
zazpowered almost 9 years agoUX Designer
Stands for user experience designer.
They are basically there to make sure that the app you're using isn't annoying as shit to use. This differs from UI Designers who work on how the product looks (versus how it feels).
Rob: This is a great app but it FEELS wrong. Engineer: What do you want to change Mr. UX Designer? Rob: Everything.
covfefelord almost 9 years agoThe only monetizable field with an Antropology degree.
LaCroix
The #1 drink of choice for startups. It is somehow delicious and calorie-free at the same time.
LaCroix was co-founded by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and most recently raised a Series Z from Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from the French government.
If you're interviewing for a startup, check their fridge for LaCroix, and if they don't have any, run for the hills!
"I'm gonna wash down this pull request with a Berry LaCroix."
juju_lew over 7 years agoFree and open-source software
Anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve it's design.
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yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoRide Sharing Tension
The tension a user of Uber Pool or Lyft Line feels when they feel obligated to make small talk with other passengers.
"Shit he's right next to me. Do I need to talk to him? It's already been 5 minutes since he got into the car though. Dammit I'm using regular Uber next time."
zazpowered almost 9 years agoCoffee Maker
In many offices a coffee maker refers to a machine that produces coffee. In Silicon Valley however, a coffee maker is an actual human being (normally an intern) whose job it is to grind the coffee beans by hand and brew drip coffee.
In many places it is culturally unacceptable to drink coffee that isn't freshly brewed or use beans that aren't single origin.
Bill the Intern: Here's your coffee Justin.
Justin: Thanks Bill. The kale leaves on the side are a nice touch. *sips.* Bill come over here for a second.
Bill the Intern: What can I do for you Justin. I hope your enjoying the Tesora blend they had on sale at Philz.
Justin: First off, you disgust me. Second off, I never want to see your face in this office again. I hope it goes without saying that you are THE worst coffee maker this company has ever had. What have we learned today?
Bill the Intern: Single origin only...
Justin: Good. Now get out.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agocoffee culture is crazy
Pickup Hacks
A nerdy term thrown around that denotes strategies to ask women (or men) out.
Winston: Yo Bob got any Pickup hacks? Bob: Yeah. Stop compensating for traits that you think you lack, by putting down every person you meet for their "lack of intelligence." Winston: Fuck, I can't do that. I'm playing DOTA tonight instead.
GoogleEngineer almost 9 years ago
Actually the Apple III is a collector's item and sells for hundreds of dollars. The boat anchor you're looking for is the 286 PC.