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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?

Added by tosfan4ever tosfan4ever over 9 years ago

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    Y 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.

    Added by zazpowered zazpowered about 9 years ago

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    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

    Added by zazpowered zazpowered almost 9 years ago

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      Grad 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.

      Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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        Hipster 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.

        Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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          The 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.

          Added by covfefelord covfefelord over 9 years ago

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            The 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.

            Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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              Tech 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.

              Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

              • blog blog

                With 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

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                about 9 years ago
              • blog blog

                sorry ..... correction ( in above comment istead of apple it was mistyped as ebay)

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              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.

              Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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                To 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.

                Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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                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'

                Added by healpay healpay over 9 years ago

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                  Rule 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.

                  Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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                    Pre-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.

                    Added by JonWilkins JonWilkins over 9 years ago

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                      Private 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

                      Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                        Apportunity

                        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.

                        Added by Robert Urban Robert Urban over 9 years ago

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                          Jack 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.

                          Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                            Nelson “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

                            Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                              -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

                              Added by tosfan4ever tosfan4ever over 9 years ago

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                                Google 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!

                                Added by DavidZ DavidZ over 9 years ago

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                                  Venture 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.

                                  Added by 15years 15years over 9 years ago