Mike Judge
Saving our country from itself since Idiocracy.
Patron Saint of all SV ludicrousness. Evidence: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2356389/top-10-silicon-valley-quotes-minimum-viable-product
svbiz almost 9 years agoMBP (aka MacBook Pro)
High end backup battery charger for iPhone. Also can be used to browse web super-fast. Insurance for those who may one day need to render and edit their blockbuster film although likely, Apple will have introduced a much better machine by then.
http://startupstudygroup.com/glossary/#comment-35
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charlesjo almost 9 years agoCal (aka Berkeley, aka Not-Stanford)
Harvard: Stanford of East Coast.
Stanford: For students who could not get into Cal.
Cal: Letting Stanford dropouts and graduates pursue all the billion dollar ideas because it was never about the money.
http://startupstudygroup.com/glossary/#comment-39
Cal: Yeah, you have rich parents. Stanford: At least we got in.
charlesjo almost 9 years agoApple Store
The world famous religious center where a simple walk through will clear your mind and spirit and make you realize that there is a God.
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charlesjo almost 9 years agoWorder
Anyone who use personal computers only for writing, just like a typewriter machine.
"Do you think he can upload these on the website?"
"Nah, he's just a worder!"
iamDeveloper almost 9 years agoSlacktivism
Supporting a cause in the laziest way possible, usually on social media. You feel like you're helping without getting out of your chair.
"I see in my feed you retweeted every single ice bucket challenge video. You should get an award for your slacktivism."
healthdatatom almost 9 years agoThought this could be on Slack which would make audience even smaller. "I've done my part in the movement since I discussed it in my private Slack group."
Uninstalled
Fired or laid off.
"Jeff was here last week, but he was uninstalled on Monday."
iamDeveloper almost 9 years agoAlternative usage is to show the world what great taste you have about apps. "I had to uninstall Yahoo Weather. Graphics overdone."
The Does It Exist Check
The process after one comes up with a startup idea in which a person vehemently searches Google and the iOS app store to see if their idea exists some way, shape, or form.
Steve: I came up with 10 startup ideas today.
Zeeshan: Did they pass the "Does it Exist Check?"
Steve: Only one did.
Zeeshan: What is it?
Steve: A social network in which one can allow their pets to interact with each other online
Zeeshan: So you mean a Facebook for cats and dogs?
Steve: Birds and fish too.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agohaha. I do this so much
College Dropout
A complete wildcard. They are either genius level smart or are biting off more they can chew. In the case of the latter, they have either watched too many Peter Thiel talks that didn't apply to them, watched The Social Network more than 2 times, or are not familiar with the terms on this website.
Like I used to go to Davis, but now I'm a college dropout. It's just that school was holding me back you know? Like Zuck in the Social Network, I'm just way smarter than everyone and girls don't get me. I got my iPod on Kanye West's College Dropout album too cuz that's what I relate too and he's pretty much singing about me.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoClickbait
Content that is sensationalist to attract clicks and page views for ad revenue. It is commonly employed by sites such as Buzzfeed and Upworthy.
This is MOST amazing thing you will see all year! Must see!!
zazpowered almost 9 years agoDigital Wallet Startups
Startups that pitch never having to carry a wallet again. It's a brilliant pitch, so brilliant in fact that there are probably about 20 of them that have raised funding. Sometimes one may wonder if these investors had heard of the other dozen startups doing the exact same thing.
Jack decided to start digital wallet company after forgetting his wallet in his apartment, and having a huge caffeine headache. He came to his sense after Googling in and realizing there were already enough companies trying to do it, including Google itself.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoThe Social Network Effect
This can reference the effect in which an online community gives life and growth to a software application.
It can also give reference to the hypothesized phenomenon that software startup incorporation increased in correlation to the film "The Social Network."
This was one of the first films where hacker culture as we know it was displayed in commercial theaters for the world to observe in a highly dramatic way and perhaps inspired people to try to soar before they could walk.
I've observed the social network effect in Orange County in that everyone I seem to meet wants to do a software startup, but none of them want to learn how build a business or learn how to talk to software engineers without sounding stupid.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoCollege Dropout
Somebody who tries to follow in the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates but will most likely end up working drive-thu at Mcdonald's
Tim: "I'm about to drop out and start a company like Bill Gates; this is going to be amazing."
Jim: "Gates dropped out of Harvard and had good plans for what he wanted to do. You're dropping out of community college because you hate school. I don't think it's going to work out."
zazpowered almost 9 years agoTo Backdoor
Backdooring someone is purposely leaving a security vulnerability in the form of code that's sometimes purposely put in by the programmer. This is done to later have the ability to sabotage the company/person they are building it for, usually in case he or she gets screwed over by them somehow or are just bored.
Just to be a complete dick, Jack backdoored his brother in law's resume website, when building it for him to purposely make pictures of cats pop up whenever a user clicks anywhere. On thursdays he changes it from cats to pandas.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoGoing Incognito
Going off the map for a period of time to peruse places in an unrecognizable fashion. This is normally done to satiate a curiosity of yours that you are to ashamed for even a single friend to be aware of.
This originates from the incognito tab on most internet browsers. Going incognito prevents any cookies or search engine history from being saved.
Matt: Where the hell is Joey?
Zeeshan: On my Facebook timeline, I think I saw him like and then unlike the status of this peculiar store in Mission. I bet he's going incognito for a couple of days.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoWOMBAT
"Waste of Money Brains and Time" is suitable to describe a person, product or project.
"He's such a WOMBAT!"
iamDeveloper almost 9 years agoWFIO
WFIO, pronounced whiff-eee-o, is an acronym which stands for "We're Fucked; It's Over." Used to describe that horrible moment when an individual is certain their startup is dead. A typical entrepreneur will experience three of these per week.
Board of Directors: How was revenue this quarter? CEO: WFIO
hunterlane almost 9 years agoTen Dollar Solution
Anything that works infinitely better than that "new thing" and the superior technology is at least 30 years old.
Trying to follow a ballgame on a Real Audio plugin vs. a ten dollar transistor radio.
iamDeveloper almost 9 years agoTLA Departments
Short for "Three Letter Acronym": A department of a company that does not have any apparent function at all.
Groups like this are usually created by trendy management fads.
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iamDeveloper almost 9 years ago
this one's great