Problem Observer
A shitier version of a problem solver. A problem observer is a person who points out obstacles (even if they are incredibly obvious) offers no solution, and feels really good about themselves. They tend to end up working at a big company for the rest of their lives.
Mark was a problem solver that started facebook and dropped out of Harvard. Roy was a problem observer that has a PhD from Stanford and works at Yahoo.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agoCoffee Shop Nomad
An entrepreneur (or group of entrepreneurs) that goes from coffee shop to coffee instead of shelling out the money for dedicated office space.
Julia and her team are coffee shop nomads that alternate between Sightglass, Starbucks, and Philz coffee.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agoKanye
noun
1. Rap artist
verb
1. to beg billionaires for money
credit: https://twitter.com/rklau/status/699122149701787653
Example:
Jeb Bush really kanyed ahead of the SC primary.
zazpowered about 8 years agocontent
Anything that you can either read or understand from any one or more of your senses (hearing or sight, but usually not smell or touch).
Q: How can I create great content?
A: Well you could write something.
Q: That's not good enough, I want it to be more interesting.
A: I have an idea, record your voice and make a podcast.
Q: That's much better.
jbark55 about 8 years agoVienna waits for you
When someone puts work at the expense of their personal lives to the point of extremity.
http://javatroopers.com/Peopleware.html#Chapter_3
John : Hey Bill, you looked like you aged 30 years since I last saw you. It's been a while, how goes it on your startup?
Bill : It's going OK, i've spent so much on this company that my wife left me though, I still gotta trudge on to get it out there.
John : Well Bill, Vienna waits for you.
mwang about 8 years agoHardware Startup
A company which makes a physical product, dooming it to bankruptcy and failure.
Q: What does your startup do?
A: We are making a hoverboard for cats.
Q: Hardware is too hard, you should seriously think about building the software layer for that instead.
jbark55 about 8 years agoDark Pattern
A Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills.
Added by zazpowered over 8 years ago
Vim
A popular text editor with a great variety of custom commands for developers. For douchier members of the community talking about Vim's superiority is the equivalent of having a sexual climax.
Chindra loved developing on Vim so much that he made it's logo his desktop replacing the picture of he and his wife on their honeymoon.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoTinder Ghostwriter
Someone who is hired to chat on behalf of others with the intention of getting their employer a date.
I've paid my rent this month by tinder ghostwriting for more than half of the engineering department. The hardest part is convincing them to take pictures of themselves without unlaundered hoodies and mom jeans.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoChristmas Party +1 Crashing
Crashing the extremely low security, high budget christmas parties tech companies throw as a lonely tech employees +1 and meeting people in sometimes their most inebriated state of the year.
I made friends with the C level staff of three companies this year's round of Christmas Party +1 Crashing. I didn't do with the intention of networking to be honest, I just enjoy Christmas parties with my friends..
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoVirtual Christmas
Simulating the perfect holiday on one's VR helmet sitting alone in one's apartment.
http://churchm.ag/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/TheGreatestGift.jpg
I decided to cancel my trip back home, break up with my girlfriend, and have a Virtual Christmas this year.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoVP Of Product
Overseas the vision of the product. Communicates between the C Level executives and the engineering heads to develop a product consistent with the company's values.
Ryan got promoted to VP of Product and now spends most of his time in meetings with the CTO trying to hammer out reasonable trajectories for the company.
yungsnuggie over 8 years ago3 Comma Studios
A legendary secret society publicly operating as an app studio in San Francisco, California. While the app studio founders are made public on their website 3CommaStudios.com, its members are kept highly secret, rumored to be having some of the biggest names in tech and venture capital as shadow leaders of a seemingly inconspicuous organization.
It's rumored that every few months the society inducts members by sending them a mysterious black key card with 3 commas embroidered on it. They meet in a secret location and talk about the tech world behind closed doors that open upward like a Lamborghini, not side to side like a Honda Civic. If asked, its members are told to deny their memberships and even scoff at the very thought of it's existence.
The studio's slogan: Do not bite the invisible hand that feeds.
I've heard rumors that Devon was inducted as a member of 3 Comma Studios a few months ago after starting his company. He denies the existence of the organization adamantly. But I saw a black key card with 3 commas in his wallet a few months ago. On top of that he goes out at random times of the night getting dropped home by cars with doors that open upward NOT side to side. Sometimes in the dead of night when I bring it up, he just sticks both his middle fingers up at me and whispers "2 commas be gone" in a trance like state.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoSkywalker Soreness
When your right hand is in such extreme pain from coding or typing that it feels as if it's been cut off by a laser sword.
I waited until the end of the deadline to finish my part of the project and now I have skywalker soreness. I can't do anything with my right hand.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoLOL
Second-Time Founder Syndrome
The condition associated with former founders who've had success with one company and are stunted by the task of deciding what to work on next with heightened expectations and desires for it to be even bigger. This condition becomes especially petrifying when the founder has seen 1000's of ideas by that point in time, with no coherent pattern of success.
After Erlich Bachman sold his first company Aviato, he developed Second-Time Founder Syndrome and decided to invest in companies like Nip Alert instead until he gained better ground on determining what he wanted to do next. http://www.themacro.com/articles/2015/12/triplebyte-harjeet-taggar-startup-school-radio/
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoSwoop n' Poop
When a stakeholder, manager, or client who has not been involved in the project drops into a meeting and adds extra functionality requirements or makes comments that change the scope.
Everything was going fine until Chad came in out of no where and pulled a "Swoop n' Poop". Now we are three days until deadline and have to scrap the whole thing!
RobotCowboy over 8 years agoAuthority positioning
Authority positioning enables a person or a company to be perceived as the go-to expert in their industry.
Also called authority branding.
Ida Giroday is an international authority positioning 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 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 ago
lol