Hackathon Poacher
Recruiters who hang around Hackathon (coding/product competitions) in hopes of recommending them to a company in which they garner commission or recruit to their own venture.
Matt: See that guy in the corner wearing a business suit and the blue tie.
Zeeshan: Yeah, what about him? He's seems pretty friendly.
Matt: He's a hackathon poacher looking for engineers to join his dating app team, that matches people without visas to people who have them.
Zeeshan: That's sorta brilliant, but probably borderline illegal.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoThe Control Alt Delete Solution
The go to action one conducts when they have no idea how to fix something. The control-alt-delete combination is a Windows command that summons a Task Manager to help shut down any program that's bugging out.
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GoogleEngineer almost 9 years agoMetadata
In most instances, metadata is referred to as information that helps you identity what shit is among users exchanging data, without actually seeing it's inward contents. It's like a sealed, labeled envelope of sorts.
The NSA can see the metadata of every call and text you make, although they claim they don't actually read what it contains. They can see the fact that you sent a text to your girlfriend, but they claim they don't actually read it unless they have permission by their higher ups.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoNo Eeyores Rule
A rule where startups should avoid hiring people who are pessimistic, gloomy, depressed in order to prevent decreased morale.
A term first proposed by Jason Calacanis in this tweet -> https://twitter.com/Jason/status/627907240037519360
Employee #1: Jack I really don't think you should hire chris because you know no Eeyores rule.
Nontechnical CEO: Cool. Let's look for another engineer unicorn.
svhunt almost 9 years agoChurn Rate
Refers to the speed at which you can churn butter. Interns are often graded on this criteria. Higher churn rate makes you more legit in the valley.
Intern: do I really have to churn all of this butter?
Boss: yes it is vital for our equitable stability consumer vision internet of things platform.
zander almost 9 years agoStartup 15
Similar to Freshman 15 except this weight gain is caused by alcohol and catered meals that your startup offers you.
John: My startup needs to stop feeding me. I already have Startup 15 but luckily there's a gym at work.
zazpowered almost 9 years agoAuthority branding
Authority branding enables a person or a company to be perceived as the go-to expert in their industry.
Also called authority positioning.
Ida Giroday is an international authority branding consultant and success coach for women entrepreneurs. She helps her clients become the leader in their field and fast-track their success.
Zaza G over 8 years agoStartup T-shirts
When you combine poor college students, too lazy to do laundry with free startup branded t-shirts you get the greatest growth hack in Silicon Valley. It's a win win for everybody.
Chris: You realize by wearing that Dropbox t-shirt you are providing free advertising for them right?
Kilim: I have nothing else to wear though.
zazpowered almost 9 years agoRebillionizing
To renter the 3 comma club. Made popular by Russ Hanneman on Silicon Valley.
Russ: Due to some bad investments I joined the 2 comma club but Pied Piper will help me rebillionize shortly
https://youtu.be/xzMUrB-Um1Y?t=92
zazpowered almost 9 years agoPeriscope Plug
Advertising a product or service using Periscope either through your own live stream or someone elses's.
I tuned in to watch to Jack Dorsey's Periscope to watch him interview the founder of Blue Bottle. Little did I know that it wouldn't be conversation on coffee, but instead a giant periscope plug for his other company Square. He just kept asking questions about how Square transactions benefit his business.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoLow Engagement Shame
The shame that people of the internet generation feel after they add a piece of content to a social network and there is little or no engagement. This can be likes and comments on Facebook/Instagram or favorites and retweets on Twitter.
David: I uploaded a selfie 10 minutes ago and nobody has liked it yet. Did I use a bad filter? What is going on? I need to delete this right away
zazpowered almost 9 years agoInvestor Crushing
Learning everything possible about your ideal investors fantasizing about the scenario in which the both of you talk about things you just happen to be interested in.
I've been investor crushing on Marc Andreessen for months now. Whenever I see an egg I get so wet.
HalfLife3 almost 9 years agoConnector
BS filler that folks use in their Linkedin headline (and/or business cards) when they really don't have anything important to say about themselves. A Connector in SV is the equivalent of a Hollywood socialite.
Josh, to himself: Aaannnd there...I just set my LinkedIn headline to Entrepreneur | Connector| Networker | Twerker. Now I am gonna sit back and watch the job offers roll in.
That_Guy almost 9 years ago
Code Crushing
Naming the variables in your code after the person you have a crush on.
Diane: Let me take a look, maybe I can help you debug. Ryan: Wait NO! Diane: Why is my name everywhere in your codebase. Ryan: I've been code crushing ever since you joined the company last week. I'm just too much of a coward to tell you my feelings. Diane: That's pretty obvious. I found you bug though. You left out a parenthesis.
HalfLife3 almost 9 years agoWonder how you thought of this......
That's awesome
It's alright. Almost meh. But you wanna sound interested and enthusiastic.
Hayden: I just built the android version to my new Flappy bird clone! Matt: That's awesome!
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThis definition is awesome
I say this way too often.
The Incompetence Interview
Pretending to be someone who doesn't know shit, in an attempt to see how well someone is at explaining things.
Jessica did an incompetence interview on Lando asking her to teach him some basic Ruby on Rails concepts. He didn't know how to even open his terminal.
HalfLife3 almost 9 years agoOvertime Dinner Tradeoff
Normally if an employee stays until 7pm (two extra hours after they are free to go) the office gives them a 15 dollar credit toward dinner. Many employees don't mind staying an extra two hours at their mostly well-funded office to not have to shell out cash for dinner every night. The office wins with two hours of extra labor and the employee wins with not having to worry about dinner.
Many companies use systems like Waiter.com to diversify food choices as well, so everyday the employee gets 15$ of food from a new restaurant.
Jim: I saved a total of 500$ this month on food. Lee: God...the overtime dinner tradeoff is the one of the only things making me consider joining a big company. I'm sick of eating 5 dollar footlongs every day.
HalfLife3 almost 9 years agoSee also: "Startup Dinner"
Steve Jobs
The subject of Hollywood biopics and Silicon Valley biographies for the next couple decades. People on the internet (computer programmers in particular) complain about they are after paying money to see it.
He is also the founder of Apple Computer and Pixar Inc.
Hey Jimmy I'm sad because every Steve Jobs movie I watch is the same thing.
Let's watch Jurassic World instead because Dinosaurs.
- YOUNG STEVE JOBS DOING PSYCHIADELICS
- HE'S BACK FROM INDIA (WOAH HOW RANDOM HES A VEGETARIAN NOW)
- STEVE JOBS LOOKING AT STEVE WOZNIAK WITH HIS MOUTH WATERING ABOUT HOW HE CAN SELL WHAT WOZ IS BUILDING
- STEVE JOBS HAS AN ILLIGENTIAMTE CHILD (WOAH HE NAMES THE COMPUTER AFTER IT LATER?!)
- STEVE JOBS YELLS AT SOME GUY WHO PROBABLY DOESN'T DESERVE IT. SOME GUY GETS MAD AT STEVE JOBS SAYING HE'S OUT OF LINE
- STEVE JOBS HIRES THE CEO OF PEPSI (DO YOU WANT TO SELL SUGAR WATER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, WOAH HOW COOL)
- STEVE JOBS IS FIRED AND SCREAMS WHILE DRIVING HIS CAR HOME
- STEVE JOBS STARTS ANOTHER COMPANY AND ACTS LIKE A SMUG BASTARD WHEN THE COMPANY IS DOING SHITTY
- STEVE JOBS GOES BACK TO THE COMPANY AND IT DOES WELL (DISCREETLY ALLUDE TO THE IPOD)
- THROW IN SOMETHING ABOUT CALLIGRAPHY, WOZ EATING A HOTDOG, AND SOME DRAMATIC QUOTES TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT AND FADE TO BLACK
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoNelson “Big Head” Bighetti
Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti was a tenant of Erlich's incubator and is Richard's friend. He is hired by Hooli on a huge promotion to work on Nucleus, Hooli's version of Pied Pier, and to spite Richard. After Big Head is removed from the Nucleus project due to his limited tech knowledge he begins to rest and vest. Later he is promoted to Sole Head Dreamer at Hooli XYZ, a bullshit title and department, because Gavin wants to sue Pied Piper by arguing that Big Head came up with Pied Piper's algorithm while at Hooli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPAiAE7COo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFhrjtZBV_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwo5rjlLhTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM67VYO8qeo
zazpowered almost 9 years agoJack Dorsey Style Scale
A highly scientific way to rate Internet moguls' approach to dressing relative to that of Jack Dorsey's. Reference
Sarah: Woah Mark Pincus dresses really well. I think he is an example of an internet mogul with 5 out of 5 on the Dorsey Style Scale.
Adarsh: That's true but he's not an engineer. We need to revise the scale to be technical moguls only if want to make it fair.
zazpowered almost 9 years ago
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