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Another meaningless and overused adjective that could be added to this list is "curated".

Curated means that the company chose to sell certain things, and not sell other things. How novel. Walmart curates its product offerings.

There are some days where every third listing on ProductHunt is "A curated collection of ______".

To me I read "curated" as "picked by a human, not an algorithm". I guess it could also be "picked by a sufficiently advanced algorithm that is as good as a human".

Curated probably wouldn't make sense on this list because it's used a lot outside of the startup world as well. Plus, curated is usually used to mean exactly what it does mean.

I hope tech crunch did this purely tongue in cheek, if it weren't for the likes of them, the terms they are fileting are the argot they and their industry, tech 'journalism,' pick up, amplify, popularize and abuse wouldn't become ubiquitous. Then they have the audacity to ridicule the industry.

As one of the co-authors of the piece, I just want you to know that it was done 98% tongue-in-cheek and maybe 2% self-loathing. It wasn't meant to be a serious at all, despite the fact that some "definitions" are more biting than others.

Probably the best article I've read on TechCrunch for a while. Even if they missed 'disrupt' because TechCrunch wouldn't make fun of themselves.

So is a startup company that hasn't disrupted yet said be be "preruptive"?

Yes and postruptive for when the company runs out of ideas.

"Disrupt" is suspiciously absent from this list.

It does get a mention:

> Good exits happen when you’re “killing it,” your company hasn’t killed you yet, and another company comes along to buy yours. (See possibly, acqui-hire.) Bad exits are another way of saying you failed to disrupt much of anything besides your VC’s portfolio performance.

I have been looking for a chance to use this assertion for a while, so thank you: Disrupt is broken

We need to disrupt "disrupt".

That was a lot funnier and more accurate than I would've expected from Techcrunch.

Anybody care to reverse engineer the meaning of "Serial Hackerpreneur"?

https://angel.co/jawad-ansari

Well, I clicked on a techcrunch dot com link, so I guess I got what I asked for.

I always use the Startup Guys as a reference this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4

LOL, brogrammers?

Here we go again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

"Cashflow Positive – Someone gave us a dollar."

Funny -- even more funny when you consider that many startups never make it that far!

last time my boss asked me how was my side project for the team going (I am from enterprise world), i replied i haven't reached MVP yet. he paused a while and puzzled saying I will buy you a ring then

:) this was pretty hilarious

I'm actually fairly disappointed since I was hoping this would be helpful.

TechCrunch doesn't even make money and what they produce is shoddy journalism at best. How are they going to go around criticizing others who try to do something?

Douchebag journalists are WAY worse because they believe the bullshit they spew. At least startup douchebags get a whiff of their own shit.

^ A classic example of ad hominem.

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