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Rickrolling
Rickrolling is a form of bait and switch that involves using a link that seems relevant but really links to the music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
Woah look at this cute cat
zazpowered over 9 years agoLinkedIn Endorsement Flirting
Endorsing someone your attracted to for skills they may or not have to start a form of communication between the two of you.
Sabrina: Why did you endorse Zayn for Python. You're a lawyer, you don't even code. Jess: I was endorsement flirting with him. Even though I hate coding, dudes love it when you notice their code.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoCat Person Stereotype
The stereotype that engineers in Silicon Valley when given a choice would prefer ownership of a cat rather than a dog.
Ryan: I got you a cat for your birthday. Bob: Fuck you I like Corgis.
HalfLife3 over 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 over 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 over 9 years agoQuoralin
Starting a fight on Quora. Combines the words quarrel and Quora.
Julie has been quoralin with a bunch of university students on her laptop all day.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoOnly New Friends
A habit alot of founders make (with exception to the people they work with) to only hang out with new people or acquaintances because their old friends are negative as shit. This is the opposite of the hip hop theme propagated by Drakes "No New Friends," track.
Steve (at home): Brad never answers my calls anymore. I bet he's having a rough time. I'm going to talk to him for 3 hours next time I see him about how bad his life probably is going to be and try to convince us to join us at Task Rabbit. Brad (at bar): Fuck Steve. Only new friends.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDO a startup
Something wantrepenurs or new silicon valley enthusiasts say in trying to convey "working on a startup" or "starting a business."
Ryan: I graduated from business school. Lets DO a startup guys. Menlo: Get the fuck out of here. Startups aren't something you DO.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoTupac Startup
An incredibly promising new company that unexpectedly dies at it's prime.
I heard the founders fucking hated each other. So even though their company was doing pretty well they became a tupac startup.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agohahaha
Firestarters
Strategists and writers at online media who purposely write one side of an incredibly controversial subject to garner massive love from one side and hatred for another. This is done with the intention of getting shares.
My job writing for the New York Times opinion column prepared me perfectly for my new job as a firestarter at the Huffington Post. I just pick the most controversial stories of the past week and month and write for one side. From there you just watch the shares number increase and ignore the comments because flame wars are always the same.
GoogleEngineer over 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 over 9 years agoScalable
A term used by startups that aren't profitable, but say they are this to sound potentially profitable.
Investor: Is your startup profitable? What's the revenue since launch? Founder: We're not profitable, but we're scalable. We plan to scale up and then focus on revenue streams.
Original Jared over 9 years agoMilestone
Common term used to communicate between founders and investors the goals they intend on passing. Milestones are sometimes used in determination for future funding worth.
Draymond's company passed all it's milestones so the investors were happy to write him a check for the next round.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoGenius
Someone who works at an Apple Genius Bar to fix and teach you how to use your Macbooks and iPhones
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zazpowered over 9 years agoWyle E. Coyote is a super genius.
Network 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 ago@alphabet
A dad and self-proclaimed geek that lives in Cleveland, OH. Owns the @alphabet Twitter handle. Will soon become rich.
Guy 1: This guy's just a geeky dad on Twitter. Guy 2: No, he's @alphabet and will earn more money in one day than you've earned in an entire year.
Original Jared over 9 years agoHe's also a fan of the Cleveland Browns. Dads in Pittsburgh are geeks.
Caching Out
Day dreaming about old memories and fantasies.
This can also mean "to get black out drunk."
The morning dev meetings are so fucking boring. I always end up caching out thinking about the times in college where I'd ditch class to play basketball.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoLava Pressure
Intentionally making your life worse every time your startup doesn't pass a milestone.
Reynolds keeps putting lava pressure on his team by smashing a monitor everytime their company doesn't gain 10% more users in a given month.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoStartup Dementor
Someone in an early company whose prescience is so negative and soul sucking that nearly every happy memory you've had when with them dissipates.
Dementors originiate as fictional creatures that guard a wizard prison in the Harry Potter series
Ronald and Perry are startup dementors who help destroy the early companies they join with their consistent negativity and thoughtless criticism.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoElevator Pitch
An investor pitch that literally spans the time of a single elevator ride. People use this expression as a systematic way of telling founders to shut the fuck up and get to the point.
Ron spent 10 months preparing his 10 second elevator pitch. He did everything he could to get it right.
HalfLife3 over 9 years ago
One of my favorite clips from Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
@Z40 got me