{"id":5439,"date":"2015-07-21T18:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:17:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:17:52","slug":"found-in-vc-venture-capital-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/found-in-vc-venture-capital-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Found in VC (Venture Capital) Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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VCs are the douchebag, agent-equivalents-in-LA, of Silicon Valley. They say jargon in a way that NFL pro athletes spit hashtags. <\/div>\n
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So, let us go behind the veil of secrecy and pierce that corporate lingo that I call JarGashTag– I’ll regurgitate an unintelligible phrase. Then I will translate it for you (plot spoiler, this ends in a fun game for fun and profit.)<\/div>\n
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“We don’t fund talent here. We fund temperature. And _____ is not hot right now”<\/div>\n
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TRANSLATION: I don’t think Roelof was investing in social. But I hear he likes car loans disintermdiated– Any way you can pivot to that!? <\/div>\n
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“We don’t like to start parades. Just join them”<\/div>\n
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Translation: this seems one quarter baked. And the fact that your plan for distribution included the spoke phrase “go viral” made us think: Didn’t everyone at Stanford take ENGR145. <\/div>\n
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Solution and a hilarious game to play<\/div>\n
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10\/18\/13, 1:45 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
bit.ly\/buster145123qb<\/span><\/a>
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12\/21\/14, 9:59 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
when you are saying you’re a top 3 QB, you’re saying you’re #3 @SI_PeterKing<\/a> <\/p>\n

#3QB<\/a> <\/p>\n

DJ’s to my startup HASHTAG 3\/4s baked.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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10\/20\/14, 3:48 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
palo alto delivery DOT COM is an example of #3qb<\/a>
Three qtrs baked cuz its a sequel biz youtube.com\/watch?v=oQOC-q\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Bixby is an overgrown pillow pet Nieman Marcus sells. Err, sold me. So, he is a sequel to regular pillow pets<\/div>\n
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10\/3\/14, 10:12 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Bryan @bmenell<\/a>, I just DJ’d @sama<\/a>‘s class, “#cs183B<\/a>” to @davemcclure<\/a> & @bjfogg<\/a>‘s 2007 class DJ’d in #3QB<\/a> (it’s 50% more than ( #halfbaked<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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#3QB<\/a> :-I @ryan_aubert<\/a> 
bit.ly\/buster145123qb<\/a>
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By Larry Chiang VCs are the douchebag, agent-equivalents-in-LA, of Silicon Valley. They say jargon in a way that NFL pro athletes spit hashtags.  So, let us go behind the veil of secrecy and pierce that corporate lingo that I call JarGashTag– I’ll regurgitate an unintelligible phrase. Then I will translate it for you (plot spoiler, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}