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Operating a startup without reliable metrics or data—basically, making decisions with the confidence of someone who hasn't actually verified any of their assumptions.
When VCs invest in a startup primarily because competitors are investing or because they fear missing out on the next big thing—essentially, herd investing masquerading as strategy.
Selling directly to individual consumers—fun from a product perspective, but economically challenging because you have millions of tiny customers instead of dozens of large ones.
Selling products or services to other businesses rather than consumers—somehow considered simultaneously easier and harder to scale depending on who's making the argument.
The tendency of startup founders to obsess over other successful companies' valuations and assume similar success will naturally follow, despite having none of the same advantages.
The right to purchase company stock at a fixed price (the strike price) in the future—essentially, a lottery ticket that employees tell themselves is definitely not a lottery ticket.
A puckered, pursed-lip facial expression often deployed in selfies by people seeking validation and attention through perceived attractiveness. It's a visual cry for likes wrapped in forced photogenic appeal.
Archaic internet slang (early 2000s) meaning 'owned' or defeated, part of the now-cringey leetspeak trend. Using it unironically today marks you as either nostalgic or deeply uncool.