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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 agoFry's Electronics
If Costco tried to create the Apple Store...
Fry's Electronics is less dangerous than Game Stop but creepier than to Best Buy.
charlesjo over 9 years agoPoaching
When someone invites you to have an informal one on one meeting with them, with the implicit understanding that they are trying to recruit you to his or her company. This almost always done when someone is working at another company.
This is my poaching strategy, George: When we're at lunch, I'll be super friendly to the person I'm inviting. We won't even TALK about work for the first 20 minutes. If my work comes up I'll tell them how awesome everything's going and how we're growing at an absurd rate. Then I'll ease into the conversation asking how work is going at their company. As SOON as they start to say something negative about their current working experience I'll ask them more about it and sympathize with them. I'd tell them that we'd love to have them on our team and after that I'll offer to pay the bill. Finally, I'll invite them to my office, "just to check it out." From there 95% of the work is done and we just start talking about dates they could possibly join in. It's all casual though. If they want to move, this is the opportunity they'll normally seize.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoTwitter is an online microblog social network for venture capitalists and founders to help each other use iPhones and accessorize so they can report sport scores in real-time, review movies, and advise startups.
Sometimes referred to as “Tinder for Bromance.”
Leading by example for keeping burn rates low, Andreesen Horowitz appears to be running it's entire firm on Twitter as office communication and as a productivity tool. Many economists use the platform to argue about unprovable economic theories. Twitter is also an affiliate marketing teaser platform for New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
charlesjo over 9 years agoUS Bitcoin Legislative Arms Race
This references the pressure Bitcoin startups have to show significant traction or get acquired before the United States outlaws the use of Bitcoin (whether this will or will not happen is of course debatable).
Look man, because of the US Bitcoin Legislative Arms Race, our job is to make enough sales and sell out before the House and Senate make some extreme move in banning Bitcoin and making our company essentially worthless here in the US. I don't want to move to Greece man.
yungsnuggie 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 agoMike Judge
Saving our country from itself since Idiocracy.
Patron Saint of all SV ludicrousness. Evidence: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2356389/top-10-silicon-valley-quotes-minimum-viable-product
svbiz over 9 years agoMoleskine
The third magical tool in the Silicon Valley (more San Francisco) designer tool box.
A total poser. He had a MBP and iPhone. Even a decent tat. But he didn't have a Moleskine. That's what gave it away that he wasn't a real serious UX Designer.
charlesjo over 9 years ago@chipchop I like Moleskine but want to see more challengers in this sector.
@charlesjo create one and launch a kickstarter. I'll buy it
@zazpowered great idea! :)
Silicon Beach
Silicon Beach is the Westside region of LA that is home to over 500 tech startup companies. It mostly includes Santa Monica, Venice, Playa Vista, and Westchester.
Notable company offices include Google, Yahoo, YouTube, BuzzFeed, MySpace, and the Snapchat HQ.
My friends in Berkeley laughed at me when I told them I was interviewing at Snapchat in Silicon Beach. They kept telling me to stop dignifying LA's attempt to have any sort technological relevance. Another guy for some reason thought I said Silicone Beach, which also refers to LA.
yungsnuggie 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.
FOMO
FOMO = an acronym for "Fear of Missing Out"
The team was exhausted from attending/pitching at multiple conferences during the same week, but pressed on- motivated by FOMO that their dream angel investor might be present.
StephanieG over 9 years agoSo many events to attend....so many clients to find...
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 agoTechnical Bankruptcy
The accumulation of so much technical debt that it would be faster to start from scratch rather than trying to fix it.
Word proposed by Iheanyi Ekechukwu on https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/625786816965160961
Ok guys, we're done with this legacy code. Technical bankruptcy needs to happen. Let's start from scratch.
svhunt over 9 years agoFuck You I Made It Burn
When someone whose reached any level of success posts the emails, IMs, or correspondence between them and anyone whose rejected them publicly prefacing it all as motivation for others to continue working hard toward their goals.
Man I felt so good reading Brian Chesky's, 7 Rejection's Medium post last Sunday. Reading those rejections word for word and blurring out the name of the person sending it, probably made it the best and most subtle Fuck You I Made It Burn of the year.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoStartup/Big Co Power Couple
When one member of a relationship works at a more well-known tech company, while the other works on a startup. This ensures that the couple can at least pay rent while the other member of the relationship pursues something new.
Because Milly works at Netflix and Erik is working in a startup revolving biotic limbs, they are are a strong startup/bigco power couple who're said to be going places while still being relatively secure.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoLike Semil Shah and his dietician
Startup 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 agoZuckerberging
The action of equating technical genius with young white males that are college dropouts.
"This guy seems like a great fit for our team."
(Credit: https://twitter.com/SaraJChipps/status/622816016226222080)
"Seriously? He doesn't have a Github, are you sure you're not Zuckerberging?"
chrisarchitect over 9 years agoOf course you brought race into this...
Elevator 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
I was about to fall to the hype and get one. They are pretty overpriced