We’ve moved across town to our new location in Bel Air 
Lots of room to work, lots of food, and most importantly, parking. Parking was a huge issue at our old location, with each of us racking up hundreds in parking tickets because we forgot to move the car during street cleaning. More coming soon!
Nothing adds to the adrenaline of building a startup than some indoor go-karting. Everyone brought their A-game and Enplug’s newest software engineer, Tuffon, took home the honor of winning Enplug’s 1st racing event.
Enplug was invited to be 1 of 10 startups to present at Los Angeles’ Startup World. We had a fun time sharing our company with our tech community!
Nanxi presenting Enplug
We’re absolutely honored to be selected as 1 of 10 women-led startups to present at the Women 2.0 San Francisco 2013 Conference! The conference had 1,000+ attendees and we met tons of cool women entrepreneurs.
Enplug decided to come up with a list of “You know you’re in startups when…”
Enplug engineers holding our v1 billboards in the Enplug House living room
1. You always talk about being more lean, but not the kind where you go on a diet.
2. The only kind of dating you do is going to co-founder dating events.
3. When someone asks you if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, you respond with your startup’s name.
4. You know the name of Twitter’s CEO, but not the name of your city’s mayor.
5. You have Uber downloaded on your phone, but you can’t actually afford to use it.
6. You don’t know what US Treasury Notes are, but you know the exact discount rate of 10 startups’ convertible notes.
7. Your dream car is a Tesla.
8. You won’t buy a smartphone app that costs $0.99 and instead find the free version of the app, but you’re pitching investors how people will pay $2.99 for the app you’re building.
9. At an event with Alicia Keys and Sergey Brin, you go to Sergey first.
10. You read TC, TNW, FC, Inc., and HN. And you know what the acronyms all stand for.
11. You wear jeans and a t-shirt into investor meetings.
12. You own a copy of The Lean Startup.
13. The first thing you do after meeting the CEO of a startup is looking them up on Crunchbase to see if they’re backed by anyone cool.
14. You’ve watched no more than a few minutes of Bravo’s “Silicon Valley” startup TV show just to see if you know any of the cast members.
15. You’re appalled when people complain about working a 50 hour week.
16. You forgot that the term incubators were originally used to describe machines that grow cell cultures.
17. It’s not cool that you actually graduated from college.
18. At 9pm, you’re halfway through the workday.
19. You signed up to try the beta products of your friends’ startups. You’ve yet to actually create the account.
20. You only use Facebook to post pictures related to your startup and links to articles about your startup.
21. When you’re a woman at a tech startup event for CEOs and you see another woman, you applaud the event host for bringing in more diversity.
22. You have a blog, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr and you maintain it because you want investors to know that you’re social media savvy.
23. You’re only 30, but when you go to a startup event, you feel like you’re 60.
24. You catch yourself pitching to the stranger sitting next to you on the airplane.
25. You don’t understand why the Chrome browser’s built-in spell check marks the word “startup” as incorrect. Even Microsoft office doesn’t do that anymore.
We want to hear other things you come up with! Write them in the comments section below and we’ll add it to our list
