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SAAS
High margins
Eric ditched his chat app to build a SAAS site instead.
yungsnuggie over 6 years agoProblematic
A word that describes behavior that is only offensive to people in Silicon Valley or elite colleges. If someone accuses your behavior of being problematic you are likely to be fired or get written up for an HR violation if you work at a tech company.
The fact that Kamdesh only eats pasta in the company cafeteria and the fact that he only dates Italian women is problematic because he is appropriating European culture and is sexist against Indian women in his dating preferences.
yungsnuggie over 7 years agoThe Medium Post Humblebrag
When someone does something moderately impressive, but not newsworthy and writes a blog post on Medium explaining how they did it. It ends up becoming an indirect attempt to show others how brilliant they are.
How I got into X incubator with 3 friends who're all smart How I grew my website to 500,000 daily vistors over the span of a week with nothing but a banana and a used condom. How I got 10 sales from 2 phone calls.
yungsnuggie almost 8 years agoThiel Hipster
Someone who seemingly forms counter culture opinions, but is really just imitating the views of Peter Thiel.
Brian Chensky: Josh says Trump in the White House is a good idea. Tim Cook: Whether it is or not, you might as well just read Peter Thiels latest interview because Josh is a Thiel hipster.
yungsnuggie almost 8 years agoBroke the Internet
The most cringe worthy, click-bait garbage expression used by mediocre at best journalists, who try to get the type of person who regularly orders Pumpkin Spice Lattes to click on their articles.
Fuckboy: "Celebrity X" basically broke the internet when they did something not that surprising but interesting enough to warrant 3 seconds of attention on Twitter over. Zedd: The only people who can be accused of breaking the internet in this apartment are the people at Comcast.
yungsnuggie almost 8 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 about 8 years ago
Developing 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 agoPonytail Bias
When you automatically assume someone is a great engineer because of their ponytail. This bias most often occurs with men who also have metal glasses frames and a beard that goes down to their neck.
James often experiences pony tail bias when he visits Seattle even though he's really a musician who plays with a band no ones ever heard of.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agolol
Leaning In
When someone flamboyantly promotes and espouses feminism in an attempt to get laid.
Jonathan if you want to get women to like you, stop being such a pretentious asshole and start leaning in for once.
yungsnuggie about 8 years agowow
Wung 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 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 over 8 years agoPassing
When you reject a company's pitch for funding and decide not to fund them.
James passed on Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but funded 'Yo' as soon as he got the chance.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoPrenicorn
Pre-Unicorn. A company who is perceived to one day be a unicorn.
I am Liam Joover, an investor that only invests in prenicorns.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoEngineer Musk
The smell an engineer has after hours of intense programming.
Julia, a local founder hounder, loves targeting men and women at bars who exude a strong engineer musk.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoBoard Member
A member in a company that is partially responsible for all the major decisions in a company like who is CEO, who to acquire or be acquired by, and who to raise money from. The more seats a board member has, the more power they wield within the company.
Vinny's investor is a board member with 3 seats at his VRfeet startup. Vinny is CEO but he pretty much works for him.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoDaily Active Users
Number of people who visit your app every day. Usually more important than Active Installs.
Joe: We have 10,000,000 installs. Kal: How many Daily Active Users do you have? Joe: 100
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoPsychonauts
People known for microdosing on LSD and spending time in VR
James spends his time microdosing and then exploring the jungle in Panda Simulator VR
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoFounder Hounder
A guy or girl who sits in bars alone to potentially hook up with startup founders.
That hot girl was only talking to you because you told her that you were the founder of a startup and because she is a founder hounder.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoIs this real
Yes, watch the new Silicon Valley episode lol
Technical Debt
Technical debt is a metaphor referring to the eventual consequences of consistently pushing shitty code that works in the short term, but fucks you up in the long term.
Justin's team at Hooli spent the entire week accounting for their technical debt.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoRIGBY
"Richard is great, but y'know"
Basically a technique of abbreviating the positive preface to a conversation to get to the point.
RIGBY he's an arrogant prick.
RIGBY he sweats profusely and makes a terrible CEO
yungsnuggie over 8 years ago
nice one