Comments on: I'm tired of hearing people tell me their company's product is on steroids

By: Nicolas Schriver

Nicolas Schriver — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:00 +0000

Agree with you I heard someone using this analogy couple of months ago at a seminar and I had the same reaction. Being on Steroids is never a good thing. You want to have 3 great years and have a kitney cancer? Well that is not what I wish to a company. The simple word “steroid” has a bad notion behind doesn’t it?

By: Will Rogers

Will Rogers — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:43:21 +0000

Hey David, I’m with you.

And I’m with Kristin (hi, Kristin).

Holy crap. I think we’ll all breathe a massive sigh of relief when this latest round of terrible, over-worked phrases finally runs its course.

Note that the companies that claim to be “on steroids” have either recently left “stealth mode” (gag) or are still offering a “private alpha” (ga-gag).

Amazing that in the highly creative world of IT/media start-ups — where real innovation truly does happen on a regular basis — the terminology is so dull, nasty and stale. But maybe I should “parking lot” that observation.

By: Kristin Kueter

Kristin Kueter — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:31:42 +0000

I’m tired of having people “reach out” to me, “push back” on me, speak “to the bottom line” and use the word “impact” incorrectly (i.e., “we are impacting this.” No, you are “having an impact on.”!

This is from an actual email, I kid you not: “I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that we will be reaching out to you for a brief meeting before the close of the year. ”

So David, I’d like you to “speak to that issue.” Let’s keep an “open channel” so that we can be more “future-forward.”

Kristin

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:58:55 +0000

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