Series A - when you first take money from venture capitalists (even if technically it's "Series B" because a previous round was called your Series A)
Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#32YOLO
remember kids, You Only YOLO Once
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anyone wondering: ARPU: Average Revenue Per User ARPPU: Average Revenue Per Paying User MAU: Monthly Active Users DAU: Daily Active Users MUU: Monthly Unique Users
The abbreviations take just as long to say out loud as their meaning.
Not in German they don't :-) I actually use the company with the longest name in the world as a test for validating web input forms.
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerk- bauunterbeamtengesellschaft
which is "association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services"
It also tests that you handle the high ascci characters properly
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#34I'm fine with most of the terms and have come to accept them. The one that bugs the ever-lovin' $#!+ out of me is convo instead of conversation. I don't know if it wide spread and beyond start-ups, but it is the only place I've heard it.
How do you feel about "intro"?
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#35SAS 70/SSAE 16, runway, ARPU
ARPU, ARPPU, MAU, DAU, MAUDAU, MUU, ping me You should hear these jokers have actual conversations with each other.
i wonder how ping me belongs with the "jokers". seeing that i can picture many people like me using ping me all the time, but having never heard the term arpu
for those like me who needed to google it
http://www.playerize.com/blog/sticky-games-relationship-betw...
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#36Marchitecture and Marketeering are my newest two "favourites."
Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#37Pivot, soft-launch, lipstick on a pig, circle back, 'noodle on it' (older?), ideate, high and to the right, CCA, channel model, freemium, cap table, term sheet
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#38Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#39Re: Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anyone wondering: ARPU: Average Revenue Per User ARPPU: Average Revenue Per Paying User MAU: Monthly Active Users DAU: Daily Active Users MUU: Monthly Unique Users
The abbreviations take just as long to say out loud as their meaning.
No, you say them as words to sound like a child. "What's the mao over the dao (tao?) versus the are-poo?"