rahooligan

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by rahooligan 12y ago
re high res financing: closing dates can also vary in addition to cap. i've personally experienced varying closing dates with same cap and the initial bit was much needed at the time. haven't experienced priced yet but can imagine
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by rahooligan 12y ago
According to Mark Suster's earlier article - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/09/05/the-truth-abou... , there are 2 main downsides to convertible notes from a founder's point of view: 1) If an
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by rahooligan 12y ago
according to this the main problem with notes is a down round can get you into a lot of trouble because of the liquidation preference multiplier. but what if you never have a down round? if you can avoid the down round, it seems like conver
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Product/Market Fit (2007)(web.stanford.edu)
44 points by rahooligan 12y ago|20 comments
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Twitch surpasses Facebook in peak traffic(theverge.com)
1 points by rahooligan 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Bitcoin will fail(youtube.com)
1 points by rahooligan 13y ago|0 comments
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by rahooligan 13y ago
Would you not have filtered out the novice Larry Ellison through this standard? He started Oracle when he was 33 and I can't find anything substantial he did prior to that.
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by rahooligan 14y ago
This is really cool & solves a problem for me. I installed the bookmarklet and am looking forward to using it. I see that you are relying on the community to summarize pages & don't have a large enough data set built up yet. What wo
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The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau(idreambooks.com)
1 points by rahooligan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rahooligan 14y ago
oh no. what email service was it (yahoomail?)...dont forget to unspam it!
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by rahooligan 14y ago
Thanks. Our db isn't that big yet. We are adding books & ratings every day though!
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by rahooligan 14y ago
We have a strict set of criteria when rating a review as positive or negative. In general, if the review is even slightly negative we rate it as such...in the case of Moonwalking, NYT expresses a few disappointments about the book. This is
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by rahooligan 14y ago
Thanks for the comment. The bold is applied again in the css...not ideal. Removing it makes it less heading like though. Can increase the font but not sure if it will suffice.
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by rahooligan 14y ago
In the case of Moonwalking with Einstein over 70% of critics gave it a positive. If 7 out of 10 critic reviews are positive, the rating is 70%. We recommend a book if it scores over 70%. More info here: http://idreambooks.com/toread_or_not
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by rahooligan 14y ago
We focus on critic reviews to create a recommendation of higher quality (they don't do critic reviews).
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by rahooligan 14y ago
We made some changes for the search to work better...just need to deploy.
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by rahooligan 14y ago
most def...we need to differentiate them better.
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by rahooligan 14y ago
Didn't think you could get more granular than SFF. We tried to group genres together for simplicity. But some users don't seem to be liking that. All genres/categories are currently listed in the dropdown in the header.
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by rahooligan 14y ago
We will be adding sort/search by author/reviewer as we grow the db.
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by rahooligan 14y ago
The redundancy is unintentional...need to fix. If you sign up, you get to add books to your 'Reading List' (link under book show page image), enter giveaways and receive a newsletter with top rated books. We plan on adding more features...
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by rahooligan 14y ago
Amazon is user reviews only. We like RottenTomatoes aggregate from professional critics like NYTimes & select bloggers to create a book recommendation of higher quality.
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Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books(idreambooks.com)
146 points by rahooligan 14y ago|89 comments
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Ad space for equity(economist.com)
3 points by rahooligan 14y ago|0 comments
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Sky Dayton on Steve Jobs(skydayton.blogspot.com)
1 points by rahooligan 15y ago|0 comments
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A webless social network(economist.com)
2 points by rahooligan 15y ago|1 comments
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by rahooligan 15y ago
Where is the link to the announcement by the scientists that the author talks about? I'd be curious to read it and make up my own mind.
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The importance of a strong value proposition: Why ideas matter(rahooligan.net)
1 points by rahooligan 15y ago|0 comments
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How Professor Maxwell changed the world(economist.com)
1 points by rahooligan 15y ago|0 comments
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White America’s collapsing birth rate is changing the face of the country(economist.com)
10 points by rahooligan 15y ago|1 comments
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by rahooligan 15y ago
I am grateful to Ben for making such posts. They have the potential to save me months of misdirection. Best parts: ” Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or the

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