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Investor Crushing
Learning everything possible about your ideal investors fantasizing about the scenario in which the both of you talk about things you just happen to be interested in.
I've been investor crushing on Marc Andreessen for months now. Whenever I see an egg I get so wet.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoTerms Were Not Disclosed
Usually refers to an acquihire or an acquisition in which the price was not big enough to be impressive.
Google has acquired Yo. The terms were not disclosed.
zazpowered over 9 years ago
Yahoo Purple
The signal of a bad and usually old fashioned product. If the product seems innovative and actually useful you will quickly find out that it is like a typical Yahoo app (sucks/requires a Yahoo account) and there are other apps that do the same thing but better. The only exception is Yahoo Fantasy Sports
http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/125351474614/yahoo-livetext-a-new-way-to-connect
zazpowered over 9 years ago
Compiler
Basically converts your source code ("think of these as your commands") into an executable program that you use.
My compiler ran my python code and now allows me to see the amount of time between whatever 2 dates that I input. I call it Day Span.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMarketecture
A set of powerpoint slides that visually represent a product or software architecture in such a beautiful way but it really hasn't been built or tested just yet.
Wow what a great presentation and a real great idea, here is $20M. We hope the product they just presented isn't just Marketecture....ie. Marketing+Architecture
svchris over 9 years agoPaaS
Platform as a Service. Provides a platform for developers to deploy and manage web applications without them having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
Heroku is a popular PaaS
zazpowered over 9 years agoPaas could be the Easter egg coloring Platform as a Service.
it should be > Platform as a Service. Provides a platform for developers to deploy and manage web applications without them having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, but the platform.
Rollback
Generally refers to when you push bad code to production and you want to undo your changes by rolling back to a previous release
I've made a huge mistake. Do a rollback
zazpowered over 9 years agoBear Goggles
Similar to beer goggles, bear goggles refer to a the influence of studying at UC Berkeley on one's visual perception, whereby one slowly finds someone attractive who would not have been attractive before studying at UC Berkeley.
James: What do you think about her? She's pretty hot, right?
Dave: What are you on? You said she was hideous last semester. Did your optometrist prescribe you bear goggles?
xmangoslushie over 9 years agoI feel like it gets better every year
Recreational Cyber Team Building
Playing a MOBA or online FPS on the same team to increase trust between one another.
Our office had a Recreational Cyber Team Building hour at work. I discovered everyone at the office sucks at video games.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoEquity Dilution
Think of a share as a small unit of ownership in a company. When your shares are unprotected their value is dependent on factors outside your control, such as how many other shares are being distributed to other people. Equity dilution is when these factors decimate the value of your ownership.
Even though Ron was a graduate of the Haas School of Business, he did not know what equity dilution was, so after a year of working at a Stanford student's startup, he lost all the control that he thought he would have.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoDigital Detox
Taking a few days away from email, social media, and anything else that involves a glowing screen.
Practicing major restraint — no Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. for an entire weekend, or any other length of time.
"Don't worry if you don't hear from me this weekend — I'm doing a digital detox, so I won't see your message until Monday."
iamDeveloper over 9 years agoBricked
A piece of hardware that doesn’t function anymore because it was tampered with.
You seriously messed up that upgrade, and now your entire device has been rendered useless.
"I tried to install the most recent version of Windows on my old Mac, but it totally bricked the whole computer."
iamDeveloper over 9 years agoValley Ageism
Belief that older software engineers aren't cool because they haven't learned the newest programming languages or aren't willing to work 16 hours a day because of family commitments. There's also pressure to do well at a young age due to the celebrity status of young entrepreneurs/engineers such as Mark Zuckerburg
The Carver: Your algorithm is solid. It's really good schema.
Richard: Ok... Thanks
The Carver: I thought you'd be younger. What are you 25?
Richard: 26
The Carver: Yikes
zazpowered over 9 years agoDogfooding
When companies use their own products, often in beta, to test and work out any bugs.
Dogfooding often results in companies catching glitches in their apps before they're released to the public.
"They really should have dogfooded that app before they released it — there were so many bugs!"
iamDeveloper over 9 years agoThis changes everything
Nothing has changed. Pure marketing
See http://svdictionary.com/words/changing-the-world
Introducing the iPhone 4. This changes everything.
zazpowered over 9 years agoLove it. Although, I did love my iPhone 4S. And it still runs like ALL Apple products I have ever owned!
Doesn't change much to be honest, 99% marketing 1% decent phone
Cap Table
Pretty much just lays out the founder's and investor's percentage of ownership, equity dilution, and value of equity in each round of investment.
I sometimes hate raising money because of all the shifty things investors try to do to fuck founders on the cap table instead of trying to look for terms that benefit both sides and the company.
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*company's
Code Gay
When a developer is attracted to another developer's code. Made popular by Silicon Valley
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zazpowered over 9 years agoAggregate
To list material from different websites over the Internet in one place.
There are hubdreds of news agregators on the Internet.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago
Yahoo -> Polyvore