Haashole
A student pursuing an undergraduate, Masters, or PhD degree from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
I don't know whether to add Derrick to our Hackathon team. He's just a Haashole who tries too hard and doesn't understand how anything works. He's a great bullshiter though so maybe he would be useful for the presentation.
covfefelord almost 10 years agoTwo Comma Club
A club for millionaires. Russ Hannemann from the show joins the club after losing lots of money, resulting in him selling a car that opens vertically and horizontally.
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzMUrB-Um1Y
svhunt almost 10 years ago
Brogrammer
When you mix your typical engineer with your typical frat boy. The official heuristic to identify a brogrammer in your organization is when you can't tell whether the suspect is part of your engineering team or your sales team.
David: I originally thought Kilim was a programmer but he's been popping his collar and talking a lot. Is he a brogrammer?
zazpowered almost 10 years ago
AVIATO
Erlich Bachman's ex-startup.
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukUxx6TvXPY
Erlich: Take aviato for instance. It's not a name I found. It's the name that found me. Erlich: I'm the founder of aviato. Erlich: Like A~V~I~A~T~O
svhunt almost 10 years agoPing Pong Table
A common piece of furniture at a lot of startups. Some think it is there to promote a fun work environment which is true but it's mostly there because it appeals the predominantly asian and indian engineers
Hemant: If this startup doesn't have a ping pong table I don't want to work there
pygmyknight almost 10 years agoDecacorn
A startup valued at $10 billion or more
Kilim: It sucks that my startup is only a unicorn. Look at Snapchat. They are a decacorn
zazpowered almost 10 years agoDeliverables
A startup uses this word when it's no longer a startup
"Hey congrats on the series B!"
"Thanks! Are your deliverables in yet?"
orien almost 10 years agofirst
@orien you would comment on your own definition
Fuck you money
When you make enough money from a startup or job that you can basically do whatever you want. Usually from equity after a liquidity event.
Engineering manager: Congrats on the IPO everybody. See you guys on Monday.
Engineer: I'm not sure about that
Manager: You think you can do whatever you want now you have that fuck you money?
Engineer: Sorry sir. I just got a little excited
zazpowered almost 10 years agoIn the single comma club now... :/
@SingleCommaClub that's not bad. you will get to two commas soon
This changes everything
Nothing has changed. Pure marketing
See http://svdictionary.com/words/changing-the-world
Introducing the iPhone 4. This changes everything.
zazpowered almost 10 years agoLove it. Although, I did love my iPhone 4S. And it still runs like ALL Apple products I have ever owned!
Doesn't change much to be honest, 99% marketing 1% decent phone
Changing the world
Outside of Silicon Valley this can mean curing cancer, eliminating Malaria and solving world hunger but within SV it means a bigger iPhone, an iPhone the size of a tablet, an iPhone strapped to your wrist or Yo (http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/yo-yo/)
A synonym of "This changes everything" and "This changes everything. Again"
Founder of Silicon Valley Dictionary: I am so glad to be working on products that are changing the world everyday
zazpowered almost 10 years agoAcquihire
When a startup is bought with the sole purpose of hiring the startup's employees versus obtaining the product/users. Generally, startups that get acquhired are struggling and the move is done as a last resort.
Alex: I heard your startup got acquired by Facebook. Give me some of that startup money.
John: It was an acquihire. I don't want to talk about it.
zazpowered almost 10 years agoInternet of Things
Everyday objects that are connected to the internet so they can transfer and receive data from other objects
I can now send recipes to my oven and have it cook meals for me automatically. Thank god for internet of things.
zazpowered almost 10 years agoDick Jerk Algorithm
Highly sophisticated algorithm devised by Pied Piper engineers where one can jerk off 4 dudes at once.
This algorithm inspired Richard to come up with an advanced middle out algorithm.
Dick to floor. D2floor.
ummm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hUV9yhqgY enough said...
svhunt almost 10 years agoBrain Rape
Intellectual property robbery thinly disguised as acquisition talk. Usually committed by a big company on a startup. Yelp got brainraped by Google back in the day.
http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley-Season-2-Episode-2-Runaway-Devaluation/What-was-the-reference-to-Yelp-in-episode-2-of-season-2-of-Silicon-Valley
Erlich: They're brainraping us right?
Gerald: They definitely are.
Erlich: Shit!
svhunt almost 10 years agoUnicorn
A startup that is valued at $1 billion dollars or more
Chris: We need to raise more money so our valuation will rise and so Techcrunch will add us to their startup unicorn list
zazpowered almost 10 years agoWork From Home
A synonym of "Sit at home eating chips while watching TV"
Chris: Hey boss. Can I work from home on Tuesday?
Boss: Let me know if last weeks episode is worth watching
zazpowered almost 10 years agoApple Maps Bad?!
A phrase used to indicate the low quality of a product because Apple Maps is barely usable.
Enough said, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVq1wgIN62E
svhunt almost 10 years agoI hate that Yelp defaults to Apple Maps. It's terrible
Hustling
Refers to an act where a startup founder runs around networking with others to acquire more users/customers, raise money, etc.
Chris Sacca, Dave Mcclure loves to use this word.
Enough said, www.youtube.com/watch?v=5betFZRICVg
svhunt almost 10 years agoY Combinator
Y Combinator is an early stage seed fund started by Paul Graham in 2005. The combined market cap of Y Combinator companies is currently over $30 billion
John: You should apply for Y Combinator they will give you 120k for 7% of your company and provide great mentorship.
Amit: Great idea. I'm going to apply
zazpowered almost 10 years agoGame Developer
A software engineer in the game industry, generally bigger, earns less and is nerdier than their startup counterparts.
Kilim: I wanna work for Blizzard so I can help build WoW and Diablo
Matthew: Do you really want to be a game developer?
zazpowered almost 10 years ago
Nice spam! Thumbs down!!!