Accelerator
A term given to startup incubators that promise new startups connections, advice, and office space in exchange for percentage ownership of a company.
Ron: We're already getting 150,000 users a day Wes: Why do people even use accelerators anyway? They're glorified cheerleaders.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoAcquire
To purchase a companies assets and brand.
Snapchat's founders refused to get acquired by Facebook because their families were already filthy rich and he knew they could weather it out and make it's value even higher.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago
A publicly-traded spam-bot and click-bait machine. It will steal your contacts info and transmit spam to you and your contacts in perpetuity. The 'Unsubscribe' link in the email is only a placeholder. LinkedIn engineers deliberately did not code any action into the link click, because Fuck You!
Compelled by the torrent of spam, you will login to the web interface/app and have your news feed bombarded with Grade A click-bait from famous internet trolls such as Business Insider.
I recently signed up on LinkedIn and now my 100GB inbox is #reckt.
That_Guy over 9 years ago
Connector
BS filler that folks use in their Linkedin headline (and/or business cards) when they really don't have anything important to say about themselves. A Connector in SV is the equivalent of a Hollywood socialite.
Josh, to himself: Aaannnd there...I just set my LinkedIn headline to Entrepreneur | Connector| Networker | Twerker. Now I am gonna sit back and watch the job offers roll in.
That_Guy over 9 years agoConsulting Blogger/Connector
Free OS Neutrality
The stance that you honestly just don't give a fuck about which Operating System is better. Just that it comes on a computer you don't have to pay for as an employee computer.
I was a Linux and Windows advocate all my life until Google gave me Macbook Retina. Now I abide by Free OS Neutrality.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago#ILookLikeAnEngineer
A popular hashtag meant to showcase Silicon Valley's diversity beyond the stereotype.
#ILookLikeAnEngineer has been really effective at breaking the stereotype about engineers. It's making the world a better place as a result.
GoogleEngineer 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 over 9 years agoVideos of 2015 YC fellowship http://www.topchart.io/lists/ycombinator-fellowship-2015-founder-videos
@charlesjo I've been following that list. Good stuff on there
The Control Alt Delete Solution
The go to action one conducts when they have no idea how to fix something. The control-alt-delete combination is a Windows command that summons a Task Manager to help shut down any program that's bugging out.
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GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoUnapologetically Plastic
Almost every tech billionaire in Silicon Valley.
Jony Ive, Travis Kalanick, Evan Spiegel, Eric Schmidt et al.
That_Guy over 9 years agoMedia Headliners
Products big companies keep in the Research and Development area of their company and display at an event for the pure purpose of garnering media attention. The products themselves are either set for release on a date far in the future or never at all.
Tai: Did you see the Google contact lens in the news? Kyrie: Meh, just a media headliner not set to come out for awhile.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoGetting Swallowed By A Whale
When a bigger company builds what a startup was trying to release. The startup is normally in over it's ahead if the feature is very similar due to the companies resources, money, and development team advantage.
Ron: I heard Jack's startup was trying to annotate the internet. Julia: They got swallowed by a whale. Genius.com got funded and did it before they could.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoHipsterpreneur
A person that sits frequently in hi-design coffee bistros, that claims to be changing the world with his big eco-friendly & non-scalable idea.
While in reality this harmless, cobweb-bearded, latte-sipping, fixie-cycling creature camps out days on end, in mood-light-coffee-bistros leeching on free wifi and lemon water without having a remote clue of what it actually takes to hustle and hack his way to a MVP and beyond.
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Abologic over 9 years agoHipsterpreneur: Hashtag MVP. Hashtag unicorn. Friend/Interventionist: Dude, you got biscotti on your beard.
Boonies
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 over 9 years agonice one
The Incompetence Interview
Pretending to be someone who doesn't know shit, in an attempt to see how well someone is at explaining things.
Jessica did an incompetence interview on Lando asking her to teach him some basic Ruby on Rails concepts. He didn't know how to even open his terminal.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoCaching Out
Day dreaming about old memories and fantasies.
This can also mean "to get black out drunk."
The morning dev meetings are so fucking boring. I always end up caching out thinking about the times in college where I'd ditch class to play basketball.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoLow Fidelity Prototype
Drawing what your app would look like on a bunch of paper and asking people to pretend it's a real app. This saves you the time of making something on your computer...(which ironically would actually take less time for alot of people).
My low fidelity prototype flew away when the wind got really strong when I was testing my app for hobos at Golden Gate Park.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoI would actually call this "Paper Prototype". Low-Fidelity can be digital.
Dev 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 over 9 years agoMongoDB
It just scale.
Engineer 1: "Hey, relational databases sucks!!! We should use MongoDB fo sho"
Engineer 2: "Why do you think so?"
Engineer 1: "Hey, relational databases sucks!!! We should use MongoDB fo sho"
Engineer 2: "I see, but from a technical standpoint why do you think we should use a NoSQL database?"
Engineer 1: "Hey, relational databases sucks!!! We should use MongoDB fo sho"
Engineer 2: "I... I don't know what to think! How in the world did you graduate from college?"
Engineer 1: "Hey, relational databases sucks!!! We should use MongoDB fo sho"
Engineer 2: "F@*$#@!!!"
freefunctor over 9 years ago
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