Fracking
Creating underground sub-communities within larger social sites (such as Reddit). Vile, nasty, unsavory and questionable content is then pumped into these underground sub-communities. The goal is to either bring legions of impressionable, immature people to their cause (such as misogyny for the purpose of taking out Hillary Clinton - much like the Tea Party's hatred of blacks), or to simply create an earthquake that brings down Internet communities. The goal here is to abuse so-called "free speech" rights to the point of destruction of the host.
Since President Obama faced no more elections, the conservative/libertarian weirdos fracking Reddit with racism, now switched to misogyny by using Ellen Pao as a proxy for Hillary Clinton.
FuctCo5K over 9 years agoEphemeral Messaging
Normally refers to modern chat services that delete the conversation users have between one another at some point in time.
I love ephemeral messaging services because I never have to feel conscious about how much I curse.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFor Profit Do Good
A company that works to raise money for charitable causes, but is also a business that produces revenue. This is not incorporated as a Non-Profit organization.
charitybuzz.com
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFireside Chat
A Silicon Valley ritual/circlejerk in which someone somewhat successful gets asked questions by a young upstart you never end up hearing from again.
Just spent my day attending fireside chat's in SF. I feel so motivated now I'm gonna play 20 hours of League of Legends.
yungsnuggie almost 8 years agoFamily Layway Weekend
When an entrepreneur spends a weekend with his family mostly because they haven't seen from him or her in weeks. The entrepreneur spends 85% of this time checking his or her phone for updates.
Ken decided to go on a family layaway weekend because his Mom's birthday was coming up. He told him mom happy birthday and sat in the corner the rest of the time checking his phone. His family was just happy to see him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoWung It
Coming up with stuff on the spot usually to one's success. Another of saying winged it.
Julie: How did the meeting go? Arlan: Didn't really prepare, I wung it and landed the deal.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agoUp and to the Right
An incredible growth curve in your business metrics. Also known as a Hockey Stick curve.
Squeeze the X-axis until your growth curve is Up and to the Right.
firasd over 9 years agoDeveloping for Ghosts
Making stuff for people who may or may not exist.
As a potential investor for his company, I can't tell if Stevie is making something for people in need or he's just guessing by developing for ghosts
yungsnuggie about 8 years agoSAAS
High margins
Eric ditched his chat app to build a SAAS site instead.
yungsnuggie over 6 years agoThe Algorithm Exit
Ending an argument or justifying an explanation by claiming one's algorithm is superior without any sort of justification of said algorithm. Often used in Hollywood produced films.
After getting in a 2 hour argument on whose product was better, Jeremy screamed that his algorithm was superior making an algorithm exit, shutting the door behind him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoPretotype
A simple, often paper version of a very early prototype built in less than a day to help a startup team actualize their idea without spending a lot of time noodling on the "what ifs" and "how might we" questions.
Okay, let's pretotype these 3 ideas today so we can focus on one of them by the end of the week.
jmlokitz about 8 years agoAgile
In a medium-sized and growing company, Agile can be a learning experience for everyone.
BigCo managers learn what it's like to ship tiny things instead of meeting about big things.
Software engineers learn what it's like to have parental supervision.
Early employees learn how to quit while they're ahead.
Manager: "We will remove obstacles from your workflow and refrain from micromanagement."
Engineer: "We will regularly estimate our stories and log our work."
Engineer: "Wait a minute, where's Early Employee?"
employeeNumbaOne over 8 years agoVP Of Product
Overseas the vision of the product. Communicates between the C Level executives and the engineering heads to develop a product consistent with the company's values.
Ryan got promoted to VP of Product and now spends most of his time in meetings with the CTO trying to hammer out reasonable trajectories for the company.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoThe Silicon Valley Shake
A choreographed dance entrepreneurs do in their favorite online video game after reaching major milestones in their company. Doing a dance in real life is many instances is far too awkward.
After being acquired by Twitter, Jack along with the founding team simultaneously logged onto League of Legends, typed in the /dance command together, and broadcasted it on Twitch.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMalware Engineer
An asshole software engineer who creates malware (programs that attack your computer to display advertisements and unwanted pop ups).
Satish: One of my students was a malware engineer who installed malware on my computer after emailing me his homework. Now whenever I plug my Mac into the projector during lecture, Live Jasmine popups keep showing up. Ryan: Uhh...that's because you have this tab open right here on chrome. Satish: You weren't supposed to see that.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoUnicorn
A startup that is valued at $1 billion dollars or more
Chris: We need to raise more money so our valuation will rise and so Techcrunch will add us to their startup unicorn list
zazpowered over 9 years agoBlackhat Developer
One who uses his or her knowledge as a developer to do illegal or questionably moral tasks.
Julius is a blackhat developer who hacks into people's emails at Starbucks looking for nude photos because that's the only thing that turns him on. Nobody at work likes him or uses the wifi when he is around.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agoStartup Marketing Intern
Free labor for early stage startups that normally do data entry and social media related work. They don't normally get paid but want a job for the summer so are willing to do whatever to add to their embarrassingly empty LinkedIn page.
Jack: Holy shit Max! You're company is huge. You already have 9 people here. Paul: Don't be too impressed Jack. 7 of them are unpaid marketing interns.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoI see this very often
Social Media
One of the species of apps that keep getting made. They're really just shitty clones of Facebook and Twitter. I mean if Google couldn't do it, what makes you think you could? It is estimated that every year:
Hundreds of thousands of variants of social media apps are pitched
Thousands are built to an MVP
A couple hundred end up on the app store as different niche apps after the companies pivoted
Alex: Hey Tara, check out my new Social Media app!
Tara: Oohh! Next Facebook right here!
willgr81 over 8 years ago
nice one