Class Shopping
Signing up for more courses than you intend to take to scope out whether you want to keep them on your schedule.
Jack: How was your first day?
Pete: Pretty good, went class shopping and decided to enroll in CS150, CS162, and CS188. Dropping CS170, Math 55, and PhysicsH7C though.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoCoffee 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.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoProduct Hunt
An app well known by tech people in Silicon Valley as a way to discover new startups and apps
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zazpowered over 9 years agoProduct Hunt has been hunted!
Macgyverist Product Development
When a founder or group of founders take code that is useless by itself, from their former products, stick it together, and make a prototype/product that is incredibly popular.
Macgyverism is a term used to denote taking seemingly useless things to make something incredible.
Jimmy's new iOS game, Chang goes to India, was a result of macgyverist product development where he took a bunch of useless code from his previous projects, stuck it together in an hour, and shipped it.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoPintern
A title interns at the company Pinterest give themselves when joining the company for an internship.
Along with the intellectual prestige that goes along with working at a brand named company like this, it's mostly used to make the intern feel cute/happy go lucky.
Vanessa: I interned at Microsoft in Seattle this year on the Bing team. It was pretty sweet. Whad you do Pete? Pete: I'm GLAD you asked Vanessa! I was a PINTERN this summer. I'd go to my work in my pajamas and drink hot cocoas all day, while developing some pretty pintresting stuff. Vanessa: Fantastic...
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoStopping Out
This is essentially the same thing as dropping out, except you still have the option of returning to the school you dropped out of even after a couple of years.
Most top universities have policies allowing students to "stop out." All "dropping out" is essentially "stopping out" the major difference being that the "drop out" doesn't return.
Jack stopped out of Berkeley after YC funded his startup, but ended up returning to school after he realized that it wasn't for him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoNetwork Effect
The effect that a user of a product has to the value of the product to other users. In startups this commonly refers to the additional value that each customer will gain with each additional customer that the startup acquires.
I didn't really want to use Snapchat but all of my friends use it to communicate with each other so I almost had to.
zazpowered over 9 years agoZuckerberging
The action of equating technical genius with young white males that are college dropouts.
"This guy seems like a great fit for our team."
(Credit: https://twitter.com/SaraJChipps/status/622816016226222080)
"Seriously? He doesn't have a Github, are you sure you're not Zuckerberging?"
chrisarchitect over 9 years agoOf course you brought race into this...
Startup/Big Co Power Couple
When one member of a relationship works at a more well-known tech company, while the other works on a startup. This ensures that the couple can at least pay rent while the other member of the relationship pursues something new.
Because Milly works at Netflix and Erik is working in a startup revolving biotic limbs, they are are a strong startup/bigco power couple who're said to be going places while still being relatively secure.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoLike Semil Shah and his dietician
Fuck You I Made It Burn
When someone whose reached any level of success posts the emails, IMs, or correspondence between them and anyone whose rejected them publicly prefacing it all as motivation for others to continue working hard toward their goals.
Man I felt so good reading Brian Chesky's, 7 Rejection's Medium post last Sunday. Reading those rejections word for word and blurring out the name of the person sending it, probably made it the best and most subtle Fuck You I Made It Burn of the year.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFOMO
FOMO = an acronym for "Fear of Missing Out"
The team was exhausted from attending/pitching at multiple conferences during the same week, but pressed on- motivated by FOMO that their dream angel investor might be present.
StephanieG over 9 years agoSo many events to attend....so many clients to find...
US Bitcoin Legislative Arms Race
This references the pressure Bitcoin startups have to show significant traction or get acquired before the United States outlaws the use of Bitcoin (whether this will or will not happen is of course debatable).
Look man, because of the US Bitcoin Legislative Arms Race, our job is to make enough sales and sell out before the House and Senate make some extreme move in banning Bitcoin and making our company essentially worthless here in the US. I don't want to move to Greece man.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoSilicon Beach
Silicon Beach is the Westside region of LA that is home to over 500 tech startup companies. It mostly includes Santa Monica, Venice, Playa Vista, and Westchester.
Notable company offices include Google, Yahoo, YouTube, BuzzFeed, MySpace, and the Snapchat HQ.
My friends in Berkeley laughed at me when I told them I was interviewing at Snapchat in Silicon Beach. They kept telling me to stop dignifying LA's attempt to have any sort technological relevance. Another guy for some reason thought I said Silicone Beach, which also refers to LA.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFry's Electronics
If Costco tried to create the Apple Store...
Fry's Electronics is less dangerous than Game Stop but creepier than to Best Buy.
charlesjo over 9 years agoMoleskine
The third magical tool in the Silicon Valley (more San Francisco) designer tool box.
A total poser. He had a MBP and iPhone. Even a decent tat. But he didn't have a Moleskine. That's what gave it away that he wasn't a real serious UX Designer.
charlesjo over 9 years agoI was about to fall to the hype and get one. They are pretty overpriced
@chipchop I like Moleskine but want to see more challengers in this sector.
@charlesjo create one and launch a kickstarter. I'll buy it
@zazpowered great idea! :)
Twitter is an online microblog social network for venture capitalists and founders to help each other use iPhones and accessorize so they can report sport scores in real-time, review movies, and advise startups.
Sometimes referred to as “Tinder for Bromance.”
Leading by example for keeping burn rates low, Andreesen Horowitz appears to be running it's entire firm on Twitter as office communication and as a productivity tool. Many economists use the platform to argue about unprovable economic theories. Twitter is also an affiliate marketing teaser platform for New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
charlesjo over 9 years agoSweat Equity
A modern socially acceptable form of labor exploitation where the allure of an infinitesimally small probability of success entices normally intelligent people to freely exchange their time, skills and social capital for the ridiculously accessible status of "working on a startup."
Typically equity-for-anything, though the most vivid examples are commission-only sales roles: if you take on all of the up front risk to get people interested in our product (with zero effort from us), you might make a little money in the process.
svbiz over 9 years ago
coffee culture is crazy