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The Shit Idea Test
Going to someone who has a record of creating terrible startups and asking him or her if it's a good idea. If he or she says it's a good idea, it's probably an incredibly shitty one. The inverse is also true.
I perform the shit idea test on Ryan whenever I need to gauge whether to hack on a new app or not, just so I know what I'm getting into beforehand. Of course he doesn't know I'm performing it on him.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoMilitary Artifical Intelligence
Plain and simple: Weapons that adapt. They aren't robots per se, just weapons that attack and make calculations based on key information.
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are among those calling for a ban on military AI as that they could set off a revolution in weaponry comparable to gunpowder and nuclear arms
yungsnuggie over 9 years agonice representation of valley's current stance on AI
Hipsterpreneur
A person that sits frequently in hi-design coffee bistros, that claims to be changing the world with his big eco-friendly & non-scalable idea.
While in reality this harmless, cobweb-bearded, latte-sipping, fixie-cycling creature camps out days on end, in mood-light-coffee-bistros leeching on free wifi and lemon water without having a remote clue of what it actually takes to hustle and hack his way to a MVP and beyond.
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Abologic over 9 years agoHipsterpreneur: Hashtag MVP. Hashtag unicorn. Friend/Interventionist: Dude, you got biscotti on your beard.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
A outlook describing how a founder's untapped creative wealth comes to life when put in perilous (and sometimes self-inflicted) situations.
Jim: I've spent all my investment money on t-shirts and shot glasses. How am I going to raise another round and pay my engineer's salary.
Lewis: Relax, they say necessity is the mother of invention. Let's take more shots out of these glasses you bought.
Jim: In the time it took you to finish that sentence, I found a new renewable energy source.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agocontent
Anything that you can either read or understand from any one or more of your senses (hearing or sight, but usually not smell or touch).
Q: How can I create great content?
A: Well you could write something.
Q: That's not good enough, I want it to be more interesting.
A: I have an idea, record your voice and make a podcast.
Q: That's much better.
jbark55 almost 9 years agoThe Fake Female Avatar Phenomenon
A phenomenon in which over 75% of female avatars online or in games are men just pretending to be women to get attention.
I used to take advantage of the Fake Female Avatar Phenomenon when pretending to be a female orc on World of Warcraft. Desperate guys would give me gold and help me pay for college because of the stories I'd feed them.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoRe-Engineering Alchemist
A practitioner of sophisticated techniques to help one overcome deeply rooted personal limitations leading to a golden transformation.
Victor Escalante is an International Personal and Corporate Consultant who has helped thousands of individuals overcome deeply rooted personal limitations. His acumen for personal change has earned him the title, The Re-Engineering Alchemist.
tallenhanes about 9 years agoSoylent Profitable
A term that can be used interchangeably with ramen profitable.
Basically means the same thing as ramen profitable except founders of the startup are drinking soylent.
With the increase in popularity, its rich nutrition and affordability, more and more health-concerned entrepreneurs are changing their diet to soylent.
"Soylent profitable is the new Ramen profitable." - Kim-Mai Cutler https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/603918465536262144
svhunt over 9 years agoOne Button App
A trend among SV developers to make apps that perform it's function in a simple button press. Many hold the belief that if you can't do your apps function in one button, it doesn't pass the test for a powerful app in todays age. Whether that's true or not is a completely different story.
Antonio: Yo is such a great one button app. I can send you Yo's anytime with the press of a single button.
Zeeshan: Yo, stop sending me yo's.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoValue Add
Noun. A term for vague and banal advice VCs like giving the founders, supposedly helping uncover the secrets to building a successful business.
VC (at board meeting): you know, it is very important not to run out of money
Founder (trying to placate -- more funding will be needed soon): that's a very good point, we are on it
VC: when we invested, I told you we bring a lot of "value add," not just money
Founder: (placating again): gee, you were right, and we appreciate it
VC (smug, and actually beliving they just helped): thank you
sheynkman over 9 years agoManagerial Reach-Around
This is when a startup manager/CEO/founder sits over your shoulder, watching you code/design and providing unhelpful input. In the most extreme cases, they are physically touching your keyboard, mouse, and/or screen.
I've been trying to get work done all day, but the CEO is such a shitty manager that he keeps giving me a managerial reach-around. Why can't someone teach him to delegate?!
jpdavy over 9 years agoSoLoMo
Social + Local + Mobile; interachangeable with LoSoMo, LoMoSo, MoSoLo, MoLoSo or SoMoLo.
In other words - a company who's product is generic as fuck!
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tosfan4ever over 9 years agoVC Money
Modern day Robinhood.
Taking money from your parent's retirement pension and redistributing it to early adopters of technology in Silicon Valley.
Friend 1: "How do you have so many free meals from Munchery? Have you ever paid for a single meal?"
Friend 2: "Nope. VC Money"
ljyx123 over 9 years agoAPI
Software that lets applications interact with other applications that you don't own.
Whenever Pinterest prompts users to use Facebook login, you're using a Facebook API
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoThe Founder Industrial Complex
Describes the institution of increasing the number of founders (and new companies) in a given area to increase spending on early stage services that venture capitalists already fund.
In order to take advantage of this founder industrial complex, we're using our VC money to create a web-tool that instantly sets up a splash page for 10$ a month to capitalize on the increase of incorporated startups in this area.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoJared
A forgettable person. Often boring but quite intelligent, but usually so socially awkward that a person's mind will naturally attempt to suppress any memory of interactions with 'Jared'. This further contributes to Jared's forgettability.
Bill: "Jared, what's the status of the new payments module?"
Jared: "My name is David.. and the module is finished, daily revenue is up by 86% "
Bill: "Really? that's great! thanks Jared I'll let everyone know."
benjamin_james over 9 years agoDisrupting
Doing something that has already been done before.
Doing something that has already been done before in a slightly different way.
Doing something that has already been done before in a slightly different process.
Doing something that has already been done before with an extra idea added to the thing that has been done.
The startup is disrupting the letterhead printing industry by offering letterhead printing delivered*. * delivery is the disruption
diccfish over 9 years agoIn the wild
Seeing a new technology out in the real world, not just at launches and demos.
Have you spotted the new Google car in the wild yet?
spectrumed over 9 years agoIPO
Stands for initial public offering and is when the stock of a company becomes available to the public for purchase.
Jim: Half of my company has now left after our IPO because of all the fuck you money generated
pygmyknight over 9 years agoI want advice
What startup founders will tell VCs when they really want funding but don't want to ask directly because they think they will be shot down right away.
John: Hey Marc Andreessen. We have this new app that's like Vine except the videos are 10 seconds long because we think that's more optimal. I would like some advice.
Marc: Do you really want advice or are you just here for funding? I prefer when people are direct.
John: Sorry we really just wanted funding.
Marc: No
pygmyknight over 9 years ago
LOL @GoogleEngineer, I'm assuming by Ryan, you're talking about Ryan hoover?