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Narwhal
Definition #1: A Canadian Unicorn!
Definition #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc
American Founder - My startup is now officially a Unicorn!
Canadian Founder - My startup is now officially a Narwhal!
European Founder - Um Mr. American entrepreneur, if you may excuse me for a moment... the Unicorn is of European-origin, but if you like your horned mythical beasts so much, you can have the Jackalope!
Russia Founder - North Americans have messed with the Russians for far too long, the Narwhal is ours!
Canadian Founder - Oh sorry about (yes we say "about", not "aboot") that, how about we share?
tosfan4ever over 9 years agoY Combinator Fellowship
A lighter weight YC program that grants $12,000 with no equity taken. The program last for 8 weeks and is part of YC's goal to help a greater number of startups.
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zazpowered about 9 years ago@charlesjo I've been following that list. Good stuff on there
Startup Founder
Something you put in your Twitter bio or Linkedin profile when you are starting a stealth company and cannot announce your company to the public but also don't want to miss out on an opportunity to tell other people that you are entrepreneur. The alternative being waiting for your company to be launched before putting it on your Twitter or Linkedin profile
Startup founder. Working on a Bitcoin startup
zazpowered almost 9 years agoGrad School Scapegoat Purgatory
The situation in which one purposely enrolling into grad school with the intention of delaying the inevitable fate of getting a job or starting a company.
Lewis: I enjoyed my time at UCLA so much that I decided to go to grad school?
Jack: Do you plan on going into resarch?
Lewis: Well no. I just want to chill and be in grad school scapegoat purgatory for awhile.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoHipster Designer Fallacy
The mistaken belief that good designers must be hipsters or look like hipsters.
Tim: So there's this really great designer I am interviewing. He has a really nice portfolio and seems like a sharp dude but he doesn't have oversized black rimmed glasses or a scarf. Do you think he will be any good?
Rachel: Hmm. I wouldn't risk it.
zazpowered over 9 years agoThe Social Network Prequel
A joke that people sometimes make in regards to the creation of a MySpace movie whose founder was a UC Berkeley graduate. (The Social Network was a film on the creation of Facebook at Harvard.)
Before there was Facebook, we all had one friend and his name was Tom. The Social Network Prequel, coming soon to theaters.
covfefelord over 9 years agoThe Self-Importance Check In
Checking into a notable location on social media platforms without providing any context of why you're there. This is mostly done to increase intrigue about oneself and make others more interested in your life.
Matt: I haven't talked to Erlich Bachman in 2 years, but I saw on Facebook that he just checked into SV Angel. He must be up to something big.
Zeeshan: Nah it was just a self-importance check in to get his followers excited. We walked past the building and just had lunch at the Crepevine across the street. We then played LoL for 3 hours.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoTech Lobbyist
A person whose job it is to lobby for big tech corporations like Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. Their work increasingly involves pushing congress and local government to enact laws that they barely understand anyway dealing with topics like cyber security, dragnet surveillance, and online constitutional issues.
After finishing school at Berkeley, Jim became a tech lobbyist for Facebook approving laws with technical jargon that most congressmen aren't familiar with anyway.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoWith the FTC breathing down its neck, Google has stepped up its lobbying spend in the last year, shelling out $4.03 million in 2009. That's up 44% from the year prior. Despite the growth, Google's lobbying spend remains relatively small. Microsoft spent $6.7 million in 2009. Comcast spent $12.6 and AT&T spent $14.7 million. We decided to take a look at lobbying from tech companies after we ran a chart looking at ad spending for tech companies. (For what it's worth, Google's lobbying is half what it spends on advertising.) Our lobbying data comes from the Senate Office of Public Affairs database. We also graphed lobbying spend as a percent of revenue. Interestingly, of the companies we looked at, ebay spends the least on lobbying as percent of revenue. Guess that's the advantage of not dominating any market, other than mp3 players
sorry ..... correction ( in above comment istead of apple it was mistyped as ebay)
The Macbook Selfie
A selfie one takes on his or her own macbook normally out of laziness or vanity.
I was sorta attracted to Mark, but after adding him on Facebook and seeing his Macbook selfie profile picture in a dimly lit disgustingly messy room, I'm sorta of repulsed by him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoTo Pao
To have to step down from a companies executive board at the complaint of the product's core user base.
James got paod out of his company after continually getting in controversial flame wars with the companies customer base.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoAmazing
Pre-Revenue
The purist form of startup. A startup that is valued for billions of dollars without recording any sales revenue. Typically, less revenue demonstrates a higher valuation by "Early Stage Investors"
Investor: 'What's your revenue model?'
Founder: 'At the moment, we are pre-revenue...we are focused on user acquisition and securing a unicorn valuation for our Series A'
healpay over 9 years agoRule 74
In a every 10 engineers, one of them has contributed to the archives of Rule 34.
Julius: Did you know that in his free time, Deron draws suggestive pictures of the characters of My Little Pony and uploads them to Deviant Art?
Jack: He's the ninth engineer in our startup. Rule 74 man.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoPre-IPO Bubble
A currently "non-occuring" speculative bubble where there is an increasing number of pre-ipo companies with ridiculous valuations which will never reach investor expectations
Economist: it seems like the dot com bubble is happening again except companies are pre IPO VC: woah, this start up has expential user growth must be the next unicorn! Better invest now.
JonWilkins over 9 years agoPrivate Beta
When a startup requires an invite to use their product but invite codes are handed out like candy. Used to appear favorably to investors because it implies there were at least some users that wanted to use their product but couldn't get in.
Founder: Guys we are in private beta right now but if you use invite code TRYME you will have access. Don't share with your friends though. Make sure you don't share
zazpowered over 9 years agoApportunity
When a mobile app has the capability to improve or perform a commonly desired action.
This is a great apportunity- a way to use our smart phones to decrease lines at the DMV by allowing reservations.
Robert Urban over 9 years agoJack Dorsey Style Scale
A highly scientific way to rate Internet moguls' approach to dressing relative to that of Jack Dorsey's. Reference
Sarah: Woah Mark Pincus dresses really well. I think he is an example of an internet mogul with 5 out of 5 on the Dorsey Style Scale.
Adarsh: That's true but he's not an engineer. We need to revise the scale to be technical moguls only if want to make it fair.
zazpowered over 9 years agoNelson “Big Head” Bighetti
Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti was a tenant of Erlich's incubator and is Richard's friend. He is hired by Hooli on a huge promotion to work on Nucleus, Hooli's version of Pied Pier, and to spite Richard. After Big Head is removed from the Nucleus project due to his limited tech knowledge he begins to rest and vest. Later he is promoted to Sole Head Dreamer at Hooli XYZ, a bullshit title and department, because Gavin wants to sue Pied Piper by arguing that Big Head came up with Pied Piper's algorithm while at Hooli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPAiAE7COo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFhrjtZBV_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwo5rjlLhTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM67VYO8qeo
zazpowered over 9 years ago-preneur
The suffix you add/integrate with any noun to make it sound instantly cooler!
Please see - intrapreneur, wantrepreneur, recesspreneur, solopreneur, mompreneur, dadpreneur, infopreneur and...
This - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2015/06/22/employee-engagement-strategy/
Person A - Man my life sucks
Person B - Why?
Person A - Because I'm broke, unemployed, lost my wife, kids hate me, and worst of all! Everyone thinks I'm a total loser on Twitter, they're calling me #loserAndy
Person B - Aw shucks my friend, that totally sucks... how about we turn that frown upside down shall we? Instead of calling yourself a loser Andy, start calling yourself a loserpreneur! At least you've got nothing to lose! #loserpreneur
tosfan4ever over 9 years agoGoogle Dance
When a website is constantly shifting organic ranking placements within the Google search engine result pages.
CEO- Our website is doing the "Google Dance" this month.
Marketing Manager-Yes, we've been "Google Dancing" like its 1999!
DavidZ over 9 years agoVenture Dunce
A "VC" outside of the Bay Area that has little to no experience in software/hardware, enterprise, and consumer plays. Often seen funding the nth food delivery market place or Uber meets bicycles. The dumb money that keeps many startups fed.
Just raised $10mm from the Venture Dunce for my Uber meets Chinese food delivery. Hope he doesn't visit the Bay Area much.
15years over 9 years ago
Videos of 2015 YC fellowship http://www.topchart.io/lists/ycombinator-fellowship-2015-founder-videos