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Investor 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.

Added by HalfLife3 HalfLife3 over 9 years ago

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    Terms Were Not Disclosed

    Usually refers to an acquihire or an acquisition in which the price was not big enough to be impressive.

    Google has acquired Yo. The terms were not disclosed.

    Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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    Yahoo Purple

    The signal of a bad and usually old fashioned product. If the product seems innovative and actually useful you will quickly find out that it is like a typical Yahoo app (sucks/requires a Yahoo account) and there are other apps that do the same thing but better. The only exception is Yahoo Fantasy Sports

    http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/125351474614/yahoo-livetext-a-new-way-to-connect

    Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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      Bubble

      A thin viscous or greasy film surrounding a void of hot air that must inevitably and unexpectedly burst.

      Proverb: Build house on bubble, end up with pile of sticks.
      Believe in the bubble; believe in the emptiness that appears substantial.

      Added by freemium freemium over 9 years ago

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        Compiler

        Basically converts your source code ("think of these as your commands") into an executable program that you use.

        My compiler ran my python code and now allows me to see the amount of time between whatever 2 dates that I input. I call it Day Span.

        Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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          Marketecture

          A set of powerpoint slides that visually represent a product or software architecture in such a beautiful way but it really hasn't been built or tested just yet.

          Wow what a great presentation and a real great idea, here is $20M. We hope the product they just presented isn't just Marketecture....ie. Marketing+Architecture

          Added by svchris svchris over 9 years ago

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          PaaS

          Platform as a Service. Provides a platform for developers to deploy and manage web applications without them having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

          Heroku is a popular PaaS

          Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

          • charlesjo charlesjo

            Paas could be the Easter egg coloring Platform as a Service.

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          • passionate passionate

            it should be > Platform as a Service. Provides a platform for developers to deploy and manage web applications without them having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, but the platform.

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          Rollback

          Generally refers to when you push bad code to production and you want to undo your changes by rolling back to a previous release

          I've made a huge mistake. Do a rollback

          Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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            Bear Goggles

            Similar to beer goggles, bear goggles refer to a the influence of studying at UC Berkeley on one's visual perception, whereby one slowly finds someone attractive who would not have been attractive before studying at UC Berkeley.

            James: What do you think about her? She's pretty hot, right?
            Dave: What are you on? You said she was hideous last semester. Did your optometrist prescribe you bear goggles?

            Added by xmangoslushie xmangoslushie over 9 years ago

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            Recreational Cyber Team Building

            Playing a MOBA or online FPS on the same team to increase trust between one another.

            Our office had a Recreational Cyber Team Building hour at work. I discovered everyone at the office sucks at video games.

            Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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              Equity Dilution

              Think of a share as a small unit of ownership in a company. When your shares are unprotected their value is dependent on factors outside your control, such as how many other shares are being distributed to other people. Equity dilution is when these factors decimate the value of your ownership.

              Even though Ron was a graduate of the Haas School of Business, he did not know what equity dilution was, so after a year of working at a Stanford student's startup, he lost all the control that he thought he would have.

              Added by HalfLife3 HalfLife3 over 9 years ago

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                Digital Detox

                Taking a few days away from email, social media, and anything else that involves a glowing screen.
                Practicing major restraint — no Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. for an entire weekend, or any other length of time.

                "Don't worry if you don't hear from me this weekend — I'm doing a digital detox, so I won't see your message until Monday."

                Added by iamDeveloper iamDeveloper over 9 years ago

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                  Bricked

                  A piece of hardware that doesn’t function anymore because it was tampered with.
                  You seriously messed up that upgrade, and now your entire device has been rendered useless.

                  "I tried to install the most recent version of Windows on my old Mac, but it totally bricked the whole computer."

                  Added by iamDeveloper iamDeveloper over 9 years ago

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                    Valley Ageism

                    Belief that older software engineers aren't cool because they haven't learned the newest programming languages or aren't willing to work 16 hours a day because of family commitments. There's also pressure to do well at a young age due to the celebrity status of young entrepreneurs/engineers such as Mark Zuckerburg

                    The Carver: Your algorithm is solid. It's really good schema.
                    Richard: Ok... Thanks
                    The Carver: I thought you'd be younger. What are you 25?
                    Richard: 26
                    The Carver: Yikes

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXKdRoB9Wk

                    Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                      Dogfooding

                      When companies use their own products, often in beta, to test and work out any bugs.
                      Dogfooding often results in companies catching glitches in their apps before they're released to the public.

                      "They really should have dogfooded that app before they released it — there were so many bugs!"

                      Added by iamDeveloper iamDeveloper over 9 years ago

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                        This changes everything

                        Nothing has changed. Pure marketing

                        See http://svdictionary.com/words/changing-the-world

                        Introducing the iPhone 4. This changes everything.

                        Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

                        • charlesjo charlesjo

                          Love it. Although, I did love my iPhone 4S. And it still runs like ALL Apple products I have ever owned!

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                        • thepaleking thepaleking

                          Doesn't change much to be honest, 99% marketing 1% decent phone

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                        Cap Table

                        Pretty much just lays out the founder's and investor's percentage of ownership, equity dilution, and value of equity in each round of investment.

                        I sometimes hate raising money because of all the shifty things investors try to do to fuck founders on the cap table instead of trying to look for terms that benefit both sides and the company.

                        Added by GoogleEngineer GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago

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                          Acquire

                          To purchase a companies assets and brand.

                          Snapchat's founders refused to get acquired by Facebook because their families were already filthy rich and he knew they could weather it out and make it's value even higher.

                          Added by GoogleEngineer GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago

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                          Code Gay

                          When a developer is attracted to another developer's code. Made popular by Silicon Valley

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7bkbv4u1tc

                          Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                            Aggregate

                            To list material from different websites over the Internet in one place.

                            There are hubdreds of news agregators on the Internet.

                            Added by GoogleEngineer GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago