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SME
An acronym for "Subject Matter Expert". Generally a person designated as the expert in a particular technology, process, or subject area within a company or organization. Often the title is an oxymoron and is given through a bureaucratic process where the person designated as the so called "expert" knows less about the subject than others yet insists on inserting themselves into the decision making process despite their inferior knowledge. They derive their power via their title rather than any actual factual information they may know.
The IT department can't install Chrome because the Browser SME declared that no more than 2 browsers will be supported and he choose IE and Firefox. He didn't provide any factual basis for his decision when it was announced but he did note that he was the browser SME and thus everyone had to abide by his decision.
ipfreely almost 9 years agoBro Rata
A term used to describe your commitment to investing in your friendship every round even when it's going down to the right.
A term coined by Startup L. Jackson.
Tony: Friend, I'm going to be spending more time with you in order to maintain my bro rata in you. I just can't risk losing my stake anymore.
Steven: Seriously, you're gonna do that after you went out with my girlfriend?!
svhunt almost 9 years agofitpick
Term for a freshly developed community-app, which often reaches a "Unicorn-Status" within a short period of time. Once it's on the stock market, buyers refer to it as a "fitpick" (high valued and profitable company) or "blue chip" and therefore try to get hold of any possible stock shares.
Mr. Quainoo: "We are witnessing this highly regarded fitpick becoming a global player and a multi-million dollar company within a very short period of time!" Mr. Yamrali: "From now on there are no boundaries.."
N.Hemingway over 8 years agoPositive Cash Flow
Something your startup doesn't have. A term used to indicate that a company has more money coming in that going out.
Guy 1: Hey, does our startup have positive cash flow?
Guy 2: Not a chance.
Original Jared over 8 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 almost 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 over 8 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 over 8 years agoTechnical Debt
Technical debt is a metaphor referring to the eventual consequences of consistently pushing shitty code that works in the short term, but fucks you up in the long term.
Justin's team at Hooli spent the entire week accounting for their technical debt.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agoProtective Social Incompetence
When you purposely take steps to make yourself look and act nerdier than you actually are to prevent having conversations with people or to prevent yourself from distraction from members of the opposite sex. This is done to deflate one's personality to the stereotype of the typical Hollywood engineer for whatever purpose they see fit.
Brian: Ever since they moved the mobile dev team in the biz dev building we've been surrounded by beautiful girls. It's so distracting. Joe: I'm going to wear oversized career fair swag and metal rimmed glasses to nerd overcompensate. That way they'll be repulsed by me. Brian: Perfect, if we nerd overcompensate and act like complete stereotypes they won't even look at us and I'll be able to focus on pushing this new log in.
GoogleEngineer almost 9 years agoKale
Sometimes called "the world's healthiest food." It has become a staple for many Bay Area residents who pride themselves on living a healthy lifestyle.
It also has become a stereotypical food group subjected to highly pretentious techies and food snobs who flaunt their supposed physical and mental superiority over people.
Jack: Why do you eat so much Kale. Ryan: Because I want everyone to know how healthy I am. Maybe Sabrina will notice me and ask me about my clean code and my clean eating habits. Jack: Or you can go talk to her.... Ryan: No, she has to make the first move or else I'll appear to desperate. Jack: But you are desperate...that's why you're eating so much kale.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoDev Bootcamping
Learning to be a dev in a small amount of time normally through a paid educational program
Julia went to business school but decided she wanted to learn to be a coder instead. She dev bootcamped for few months and now is kicking ass at a startup.
GoogleEngineer almost 9 years agoBoonies
Anywhere outside Uber's or Lyft's discounted ride share areas.
Example 1
Example 2
Friend 1: Where do you live?
Friend 2: Inner Sunset...the boonies.
Coworker: I just moved to the city and need to look for a place to rent. Where should I look?
Coworker 2: You should totally look in SOMA or the mission... you don't want to get stuck in the boonies.
canterburry almost 9 years ago
Silicon Prarie
A coin termed in the late 90s to reference the tech booms impact on the telecom industry found in Chicago's Western Suburbs. This disappeared after the first tech bubble burst.
Recently this term has been repurposed to describe the new tech startup scene coupled with suburban tech companies moving to Chicago's downtown in the 2010's.
Rahm: California has Silicon Valley, here in Chicago we are building the Silicon Prairie.
Ismael almost 9 years agoBurn Rate
Burn rate is the rate at which companies spend.
Alot of startups have absurdly high burn rates which is the antithesis of why investors generally invest in software companies in the first place.
High burn rates for a company less than 20 months old is an easy sign of telling whether startup founders are retarded and only made it that far by being likable and well connected. Most of the time high burn rates aren't warranted and it's an easy sign of telling that a group has no fucking clue what they're doing.
A bunch of my Stanford classmates graduated and raised money from their prototype. I could tell they're burn rate was high even after raising so much money. Any idiot could see their traction didn't warrant the spending. They closed after a year and are now working on new startups. I pity the early investors who will sink their teeth into the next batch of hot bullshit they oven roast and serve in their next venture.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThe Stanford Marching Band
Genuinely the weirdest and most outgoing students at Stanford whose performance includes not only playing music, but also being incredibly random in the ways they dress and perform.
My dad saw the Stanford Marching Band at the airport and all of them were wearing multi-color onesies. At first he thought they were retarded, but then realized they were students attending one of the most highly rated universities in the world after asking one of them if they needed help.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoPost-LinkedIn Instacrushing
Being attracted to someone only after seeing their LinkedIn.
Jake: Did you know that Julia is employed at Square and got a 2300 SAT score when she was in High School? I'm in love with her.
George: Shut up Jake. You're so shallow, your just Post-LinkedIn Instacrushing on her.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years ago
Quora
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 over 8 years ago
Relevance Companies
The startups in one's incubators that are responsible for their relevance.
AirBnB and Dropbox are Y Combinator's relevance companies. Without them people would care about the incubator to a much less degree and they would not be as successful as they are.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoBeast Mode
Partially derived from the sports world (Marshawn Lynch going beast mode in the NFL). It is when you are super busy and have deadlines. You put on earplugs/headphones and drink caffeine in an attempt to knock out work/coding.
Did you see Rohan? He went beast mode on that compiler program today and finished it on time.
Man! Andrew went beastmode on my escalated technical cases today. Awesome!
famartinez over 8 years ago
nice one