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Stanford Ignorance
Not knowing simple everyday things because you attend Stanford all the way out in the middle of Palo Alto. This includes not being able to take a bus or knowing where the BART goes.
Jessica: What is BART? Were they talking about The Simpsons? Monica: Your Stanford ignorance is showing...
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoI Only Invest In "X"
Either it's true, the investor is not interested enough in your pitch to take a risk and go outside his or her comfort zone, or both.
Dan: I built a sick SAAS app that get's 20 users a month on subscription. Mrs. Investor: Sorry I only invest in Social apps that are growing at a 15% rate every 17 days.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoReddit Sticker Tryhard
Putting a Reddit sticker on your Macbook to appear more likable.
Alot of people who move to cities with alot of tech companies add a reddit sticker to their laptops to make a feeble attempt to fit in.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoSocial Proof Hacking
Making your company or website appear more popular than it is by artificially modifying website and social media statistics.
Jack was more easily able to sign a big client after the company he was signing on noticed that their website's videos had over 10,000 hits. Some say Facebook used to do that early on as well.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoRelated term: vanity metrics
SAAS
Software as a service. These sorts of businesses rely on a subscription model. The unsubscribe button is their biggest enemy.
Janet made a pet analytics SAAS tool that requires it's users to pay 10,000$ a month.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoThe Internet of Things
All of your household applications connect to the internet and have the ability to change it's behavior based on big data.
Cisco's pitch on The Internet of Things basically says that if I forget my cell phone in the bathroom, I'll be able to tweet from my toaster instead.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoThe Sharing Economy
The socio-economic ecosystem that focuses on using the labor or tools of a collective society. Basically empowers normal people to offer services easily without having to go through a company outside the application that is brining them together.
Uber is exploring uncharted territory by disrupting the Taxi industry and powering the sharing economy with respect to automobiles.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoInitially seemed revolutionary to bring better experience to customers and financial reward to value creators. Results are TBD.
Wantrepreneur
Someone who wants to start a company so he or she can garner social proof from it all, instead of someone who has an innovative idea that could possibly make money.
Although alot of the Wharton MBA's are quite intelligent, many of them are wantrepreneurs who just want to tell girls that they are the CEOs of companies.
covfefelord over 9 years agoAlso popularized by Mark Cuban on Shark Tank.
Bus Factor
The number of people that need to be hit by a bus before their project is dead.
"Our engineers work in teams of 10 for the higher bus factor"
asdf over 9 years agoIt is well known that engineers make a "SPOF" sound when hit by a bus.
Crushing it
Achieving exceptional success with something.
Jess is totally crushing it with her new Uber-for-VC-funding app. She's already been hunted.
Travis over 9 years agoFounders use this term until "Awesome Journey."
Making the world a better place
Solving a very specific problem that loosely translates into a social benefit.
We are making the world a better place through P2P iBeacon messaging platforms.
dennis over 9 years agoLook at how much time sink we've created for evil people... with Reddit.
Technical Founder
A 5.0 student from MIT, the technical founder is a lone wolf who thinks business people are completely useless. You're a social media manager? Get the fuck out of here. His code is perfectly architected, clean and commented in all the right places. His startups fail because he doesn't think writing CSS is worth his time and his sites look like shit as a result.
Technical founder: I was almost about to team up with a non-technical cofounder but then he told me he wanted a user interface to manage our sites content.
zazpowered over 9 years ago@blog Congrats, you're an http://svdictionary.com/words/innovator
Engineer Unicorn
An engineer that is competent, good looking, dresses well and is not socially awkward.
John: How come no other engineers are like David?
Mary: He's an engineer unicorn. They are rare.
pygmyknight over 9 years agoThe legend says some of them can be found here http://www.engineerunicorns.com
"Unicorn" is a common term for an engineer (usually front-end) who also has good taste in design and is able to contribute to UX early on. But "unicorn" is also used for startups that turn out to be breakout successes, like Uber and Airbnb. Silicon Valley really likes unicorns.
MBA
Certification that you've read case studies on how others have succeeded.
Steve: Have you started your business yet?
Jeremey: No I'm getting my MBA. I'll start my first business when I'm 30 and have a wife and kids.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoBut I actually want to get an MBA
@zazpowered :)
@zazpowered You may want to interview friends who earned their MBAs.
Waterloo
A mythical University in Canada where many good Engineers and Computer Scientists come from.
Sam: "Where are all these Canadians from?"
Matthew: "We hired 10 interns and 20 full-times from Waterloo. They get shit done because if we don't hire them, they'll have to work for Blackberry."
robert over 9 years ago@orien No what are you talking about
@SingleCommaClub It's similar to what you see from immigrants to a new country like US or Canada
I have a lot of friends from canada and waterloo and this seems really accurate from what i've heard
It's like a parallel universe of Silicon Valley where people speak American English...
@zazpowered aren't you from waterloo
@SingleCommaClub That's not true at all. Pretty much everyone I know from my graduating class got offers from US companies. A significant proportion of students choose to stay because the region is booming right now, and also the quality of life in Canada is pretty high.
@freefunctor toronto and canada are awesome
Have worked with a lot of engineers from Waterloo through internships and full time. Can honestly say they are very talented, but there is a bias because all the ones that make it to US companies are generally top notch.
I love this site!
Brogrammer
When you mix your typical engineer with your typical frat boy. The official heuristic to identify a brogrammer in your organization is when you can't tell whether the suspect is part of your engineering team or your sales team.
David: I originally thought Kilim was a programmer but he's been popping his collar and talking a lot. Is he a brogrammer?
zazpowered over 9 years ago
I've seen this with product hunt stickers in lyft cars and laptops