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FOMO
FOMO = an acronym for "Fear of Missing Out"
The team was exhausted from attending/pitching at multiple conferences during the same week, but pressed on- motivated by FOMO that their dream angel investor might be present.
StephanieG about 9 years ago
X for Y
A way entrepreneurs use to describe their startup to customers and investors so they can quickly grasp how their product works. It is done by comparing your startup to another successful company that likely pioneered its business model.
My startup is Airbnb for cars = people can borrow your car when you are not using it
My startup is Uber for food = food will be delivered to you on demand
My startup is Urban Dictionary for Silicon Valley = svdictionary.com
zazpowered about 9 years agoBART
BART which stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system that services the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the most popular ways to get around the area as they operate 44 stations that cover a large portion of SF Bay. While safe and convenient for the most part, BART is also home to some of the most interesting characters you will find.
Tim: Why does it smell so bad in here? Did that dude just pee on the ground? Why is he taking his pants off now?
zazpowered about 9 years agothat guy is really flexible
@orien comments are saying why is nobody stopping him but I wouldn't want to fuck with somebody that athletic. especially when they are on drugs
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 about 9 years agoLord of the Bings
The guy or girl in your network who exclusively uses Bing to either be a hipster or to look good because they work at Microsoft.
James: Hey can you look up the name of Dan Garcia's new textbook. Rob: Sure I'll Bing it. James: All hail thee, Lord of the Bings.
HalfLife3 about 9 years agoYahoo.
Lead Investor
When raising a large round of seed money, the lead investor is your headliner that makes it more convincing for other investors to get on board.
After Ashton Kutcher became our lead investor, every bloodsucking leach in the valley decided to send me emails asking if they could get in on the round.
GoogleEngineer about 9 years agoWorking Remotely
Sounds fancy, but its basically when someone is too lazy to go to the office so they do minimal work from home. If they do this often enough they take a picture of their computer at a nice coffee shop or dining table saying how lucky they are to have the job they do to mask their small amount of shame.
Lowe: I got 20 likes on my Facebook picture of me working remotely. Ryan: Your an unfunded startup founder, you ALWAYS work remotely.
HalfLife3 about 9 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 almost 9 years agoSilicon Valley
Silicon Valley - The place where hundreds of thousands of people work twice as hard and spend twice as much to live as anywhere else from believing the lie that it will make them fabulously wealthy that is fed to them by the hundreds of people that they are making fabulously wealthy.
I live in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the future.... and who are you?
I left Colorado to get rich in Silicon Valley, but now I can't drive for Uber anymore because I can't afford to fix my car....
freemium about 9 years agoTeacher Branding
The process of leveraging technology through national media placement, book publishing and coaching to help educators position themselves as celebrity level experts in their subject matter
Chad T. Collins is an edupreneur and advocate for the success of educators through the process of Teacher Branding.
tallenhanes almost 9 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 almost 9 years agoQuora
Quora is a overhyped startup unicorn that is jealous of Reddit's +500 million monthly visitors and was founded by a former Facebook employee. On Quora where you can ask questions about how to get rich, how to pitch investors and gossip about famous companies like Google, Apple and Facebook. Oh, and also stalk Jimmy Wales and Adrian Lamo.
Now seriously: A Q&A website where you can ask questions about anything and have article-length answers written by Top Writers or Ph.D.s who spend nearly 2 hours writing superb answers full of images, graphics and details that are above your comprehension and that later will probably be posted to Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Forbes, BBC, The New York Times, Slate, Buzzfeed, Huffington and Washington Post or any other popular news-media website.
Now seriously, seriously: A Question and Answer website where you can ask and answer questions about any topic and interact with highly intelligent people from all over the world and get happy when your content is sent on their daily email called "Quora Digest" to over a million people.
Tired of that shit, now for real: Quora is the best place on the internet to find the best answer for your questions. (It'd certainly be if it had more users).
Lisa: Hey, Jon, today I got over 200,000 views on my answers on Quora!
Jon: Quora? What's Quora?
Lisa: Quora is a website similar to Yahoo Answers where you can ask and answer a lot of interesting stuff!
Jon: Oh, cool.
Jon: Well, being relevant to that number of people on Twitter or Facebook is a different story, isn't it?
Sau010 about 9 years ago
This Guy Fucks
Made popular by Russ Hanneman on the Silicon Valley show. It is just something to say when you want to mess with somebody. Meaningless. Could also mean this guy has a lot of sex but its impossible to tell.
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zazpowered over 9 years agoInnovator
A catch-all euphemism for "douchebag." Frequently used to a) describe one's self in a Twitter bio/LinkedIn headline or b) describe others when you're not really sure what they do exactly, but it probably has something to do with disruption or artisanal donuts or growth hacking or some shit.
Your LinkedIn headline: "Innovator/CEO of Douche, The World's First Ephemeral Craft Beer Wearable."
supernovanGirl over 9 years agoBuzzfeed Writer
A mediocre writer, but decent list builder. Their article titles usually follow the model: [Number] [Subject] So [Hyperbole] You [Claim]
10 Clickbaity Titles So Enticing You Have To Click
svpro about 9 years agoLOL
WOW
#7 will blow your mind.
Starbucks Office
When a scrappy startup founder brings his monitors and laptop to Starbucks to set up a coffee shop office. Often done when the home office has become too mundane and a change of scenery is needed.
zazpowered almost 9 years agoUndev
Short for: Undead developer
See related: Undead
A developer who is constantly in a braindead state, having become accustomed to a severe degree of apathy (causes may vary) and low motivation. Usually, groups of them are found in companies with a highly lucrative business model coupled with low competition in their segment of the industry.
Identifiers: Unable to think, learn, or communicate despite repeated encouragement, instruction, and subsequent reprimanding.
Some studies have shown that undev-ness is contractable, but the means by which it spreads continues to elude scientists.
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lloydmeta almost 9 years agoAccurate
Wantrepreneur
Someone who wants to start a company so he or she can garner social proof from it all, instead of someone who has an innovative idea that could possibly make money.
Although alot of the Wharton MBA's are quite intelligent, many of them are wantrepreneurs who just want to tell girls that they are the CEOs of companies.
covfefelord about 9 years agoAlso popularized by Mark Cuban on Shark Tank.
Bus Factor
The number of people that need to be hit by a bus before their project is dead.
"Our engineers work in teams of 10 for the higher bus factor"
asdf over 9 years agoIt is well known that engineers make a "SPOF" sound when hit by a bus.
So many events to attend....so many clients to find...