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Career Fair

A time when recruiters try to get commission and college students desperately try to get their first taste of the real world. B.S is at a maximum.

David: Hey did you go to that career fair last week?

Kara: Yeah, gotta look for those jobs

David: Mo money, less problems

Added by willgr81 willgr81 over 8 years ago

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    Teacher 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.

    Added by tallenhanes tallenhanes almost 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

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        Prorata Rights

        Prorata investment rights give investors the right to invest in a startup’s future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership percentage in the company as the company grows and raises more capital.

        Erlich kept his Prorata Investment Rights in Grindr allowing him to keep his 10% share as more investors started also investing their money on the application.

        Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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          The Founder Industrial Complex

          Describes the institution of increasing the number of founders (and new companies) in a given area to increase spending on early stage services that venture capitalists already fund.

          In order to take advantage of this founder industrial complex, we're using our VC money to create a web-tool that instantly sets up a splash page for 10$ a month to capitalize on the increase of incorporated startups in this area.

          Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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            Garage

            Made famous by Steve Job's and Steve Wozniak's founding of Apple in a modest garage in Los Altos. Now a term used by startup founders to appear frugal to investors or to express "started from the bottom now we here" sentiments

            "We are a billionaire dollar company now but do you remember those days when we worked out of a garage?"

            Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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              Bro 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?!

              Added by svhunt svhunt over 9 years ago

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                alphabet

                The parent company of Google along with a handful of other companies. You can think of Alphabet as a mega company who owns a ton of shit.

                My friends have been making fun of me ever since Google changed its name. Being an Alphabet employee sorta sounds embarrassing for some reason.

                Added by GoogleEngineer GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago

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                  Swag

                  Clothes and household items given to you by your company to indirectly promote it and create a sense of pride for. To many, it's an unfortunate, but inevitable spending of startup dollars.

                  I got hired Thursday and Grindr just gave me some awesome swag to celebrate my hire. I got a t-shirt, a coffee mug, a sticker, and protein powder.

                  Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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                    MVP

                    Minimum Viable Products.

                    Dude, I got a MVP for my project, do you wanna invest it?

                    Added by hardin hardin about 9 years ago

                    • charlesjo charlesjo

                      GSD to MVP. MAU, ARR. Lower CAC. See YC, VC. IPO or M&A. No Netflix & chill.

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                    Airbnb

                    A website for people to rent out lodging. An example of a dumb sounding idea that turned out really well.

                    VC: So let me get this straight. A stranger will come into your house and sleep on an air mattress? and then you will give them breakfast? and you think it will be worth $25 billion one day? I know the market is really hot for founders right now but you need to do something else.

                    Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                      Jack Effect

                      The effect Jack Dorsey's induction as CEO of Twitter has had on founders who now operate more than one startup.

                      The Jack Effect has caused most entrepreneurs at Stanford to operate more than one company at once.

                      Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie about 9 years ago

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                        perpetual-pivotation

                        When a start-up pivots so many times it can no longer stop it's pivoting creating an endless cycle of changing your business direction or purpose.

                        founder 1: "we should change this B2B to a B2C with a B2B SaaS back-end admin console"
                        founder 2: " yeah but just yesterday we were the uber for cat-sitting, if we keep pivoting we may never stop and end up in a perpetual-pivotation.

                        Added by punnybusinessman punnybusinessman about 8 years ago

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                          Ride Sharing Tension

                          The tension a user of Uber Pool or Lyft Line feels when they feel obligated to make small talk with other passengers.

                          "Shit he's right next to me. Do I need to talk to him? It's already been 5 minutes since he got into the car though. Dammit I'm using regular Uber next time."

                          Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 9 years ago

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                            UX Designer

                            Stands for user experience designer.

                            They are basically there to make sure that the app you're using isn't annoying as shit to use. This differs from UI Designers who work on how the product looks (versus how it feels).

                            Rob: This is a great app but it FEELS wrong.

                            Engineer: What do you want to change Mr. UX Designer?

                            Rob: Everything.

                            Added by covfefelord covfefelord over 9 years ago

                            • charlesjo charlesjo

                              The only monetizable field with an Antropology degree.

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                            Free and open-source software

                            Anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve it's design.

                            Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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                              D2F ratio

                              D2F ratio or "dick to floor" ratio is used to determine the relationship between two or more men and the distance between their penises and the floor. Often used to calculate the most efficient way to jerk off men at TechCrunch Disrupt events.

                              Guy 1: How do we jerk off 4 men at the same time and dick swap them to maximize jerking?
                              Guy 2: Well we'd have to figure out the D2F ratio and group men based on that.

                              Added by Original Jared Original Jared over 9 years ago

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                                Hackathon

                                A team of sweaty engineers in a cramped coworking space building a product that will never see the light of day. Business and marketing types can assist this effort by bringing caffeinated drinks. Brought to you by Amazon.

                                At the end, the most vaguely marketable product might get investor attention. If so, it will use AWS forever.

                                Engineer (excitedly): "I'm going to a hackathon this weekend!"

                                Engineer (exhaustedly): "I went to a hackathon this weekend."

                                Added by employeeNumbaOne employeeNumbaOne over 9 years ago

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                                  Y Combinator

                                  A higher-order function that satisfies the "fixed point theorem"

                                  Professor: "We have Y = [\f . (\x . f(xx) ) . (\x . f(xx)) ], that we call the Y-Combinator"
                                  Business student: "SORRY PROFESSOR BUT YOU ARE WRONG. Y COMBINATOR IS AN INCUMBATOR OK???"
                                  Professor: "Please calm down Michael, Paul Graham is indeed very inspired, and enthusiastic about lambda calculus but this..."
                                  Business student: "NO HE IS THE FOUNDER OF Y-COMBINATOR, I HAVE PROOFS"
                                  Professor: "Sigh."

                                  Added by freefunctor freefunctor over 9 years ago

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                                    Coffee Maker

                                    In many offices a coffee maker refers to a machine that produces coffee. In Silicon Valley however, a coffee maker is an actual human being (normally an intern) whose job it is to grind the coffee beans by hand and brew drip coffee.

                                    In many places it is culturally unacceptable to drink coffee that isn't freshly brewed or use beans that aren't single origin.

                                    Bill the Intern: Here's your coffee Justin.
                                    Justin: Thanks Bill. The kale leaves on the side are a nice touch. *sips.* Bill come over here for a second.
                                    Bill the Intern: What can I do for you Justin. I hope your enjoying the Tesora blend they had on sale at Philz.
                                    Justin: First off, you disgust me. Second off, I never want to see your face in this office again. I hope it goes without saying that you are THE worst coffee maker this company has ever had. What have we learned today?
                                    Bill the Intern: Single origin only...
                                    Justin: Good. Now get out.

                                    Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago