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Innovator
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 almost 9 years agoNomad
An entrepreneur or remote employee that can work and travel all around the world because the only things they need to be productive are internet and laptop.
Last year I had an amazing experience as a nomad working out of Starbucks in over 30 countries.
zazpowered almost 9 years ago@koqoo true. I should change it
Buzzfeed 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 almost 9 years agoLOL
WOW
#7 will blow your mind.
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 agoThe LinkedIn Endorsement Burn
Passive aggressively endorsing someone on LinkedIn for a menial skill such as Microsoft Word, while purposely ignoring their more relevant talents in things like Ruby on Rails or Objective C in an attempt to belittle them.
Gilfoil got LinkedIn endorsement burned by Zeeshan when he purposely decided to only endorse him for Microsoft Powerpoint, even though he's a senior engineer at Pied Piper with a wide array of talents.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoPG
An acronym used in forums referring to Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator and creator of Hacker news. He spends his time tweeting about how much Y Combinator has grown and describing the perfect founder in a similar way that Cosmopolitan magazine describes the perfect man or woman.
I read a PG essay talking about how the perfect founder has an engineering degree, is always hungry, and lives with his founders in the same apartment. After graduating from Stanford,, we now live in Palo Alto in a one bedroom apartment without any food in the fridge other than raw ramen payed for using the profits of our company in which we are the only customers of.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoHe has some of the best startup advice http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
That's cool
You have your reservations that the business is gonna actually work or even makes sense, but you don't want to go into details.
Ryan: I'm building a SAAS operated Pet food startup. Bree: That's cool.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agohilarious
hahahahahaha SO TRUE
Stanford Ignorance
Not knowing simple everyday things because you attend Stanford all the way out in the middle of Palo Alto. This includes not being able to take a bus or knowing where the BART goes.
Jessica: What is BART? Were they talking about The Simpsons? Monica: Your Stanford ignorance is showing...
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoI Only Invest In "X"
Either it's true, the investor is not interested enough in your pitch to take a risk and go outside his or her comfort zone, or both.
Dan: I built a sick SAAS app that get's 20 users a month on subscription. Mrs. Investor: Sorry I only invest in Social apps that are growing at a 15% rate every 17 days.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoReddit Sticker Tryhard
Putting a Reddit sticker on your Macbook to appear more likable.
Alot of people who move to cities with alot of tech companies add a reddit sticker to their laptops to make a feeble attempt to fit in.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoI've seen this with product hunt stickers in lyft cars and laptops
Social Proof Hacking
Making your company or website appear more popular than it is by artificially modifying website and social media statistics.
Jack was more easily able to sign a big client after the company he was signing on noticed that their website's videos had over 10,000 hits. Some say Facebook used to do that early on as well.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoRelated term: vanity metrics
Hollywood Techie
Someone, usually from LA, who joins a tech company with the sole purpose of trying to get details right in a movie idea meant to pander to a techie audience. They have no real interest in tech otherwise.
That new intern Robert just spends all day at his desk writing his screenplay. I wonder what that Hollywood techie is writing about us.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoFounder Syndrome
The founder syndrome is when the founder starts thinking he is a rockstar and that the startup is still going because of his bright opinions in everything. He starts neglecting what engineering propose and put his nose in every single detail. It can also be called the "I'm like Steve Jobs" Syndrome.
Founder at early stage: Guys! let's work together and make it happen, we all rock.
Founder after the syndrome: No, just do it like I said, everybody is using this Ruby On Mails thing, we must use it too.
themsaid almost 9 years ago
SAAS
Software as a service. These sorts of businesses rely on a subscription model. The unsubscribe button is their biggest enemy.
Janet made a pet analytics SAAS tool that requires it's users to pay 10,000$ a month.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThe Internet of Things
All of your household applications connect to the internet and have the ability to change it's behavior based on big data.
Cisco's pitch on The Internet of Things basically says that if I forget my cell phone in the bathroom, I'll be able to tweet from my toaster instead.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThe Multi-CEO Club
A club belonging to individuals who are the CEO of more than a single company.
Now that Jack Dorsey is about become the CEO of Twitter, he is about to join the Multi-CEO Club along with Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.
yungsnuggie over 8 years ago
Investor Netflix and Chill
When an investor says he wants to go out for coffee and discuss ideas.
Ever since our site hit 200,000 users we've been getting nothing but emails asking to investor netflix and chill.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoBoardroom Wingmaning
When someone loosely affiliated with a company joins a meeting to make the person pitching seem more likable.
Ping and Satish took a day off to boardroom wingman for Jason's pitch to Accel partners.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThe Sharing Economy
The socio-economic ecosystem that focuses on using the labor or tools of a collective society. Basically empowers normal people to offer services easily without having to go through a company outside the application that is brining them together.
Uber is exploring uncharted territory by disrupting the Taxi industry and powering the sharing economy with respect to automobiles.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoInitially seemed revolutionary to bring better experience to customers and financial reward to value creators. Results are TBD.
Digital Nomad