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rahooligan

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About rahooligan

Cofounder @instareads. http://twitter.com/rahulific.

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    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 ti…

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    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 poin…

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    Comment #8336034

    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 …

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    Comment #6326324

    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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    Comment #4602889

    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'…

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    Comment #4292334

    oh no. what email service was it (yahoomail?)...dont forget to unspam it!

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    Comment #4288828

    Thanks. Our db isn't that big yet. We are adding books & ratings every day though!

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    Comment #4288797

    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, …

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    Comment #4288647

    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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    Comment #4288308

    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 ove…

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    Comment #4288186

    We focus on critic reviews to create a recommendation of higher quality (they don't do critic reviews).

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    Comment #4288041

    We made some changes for the search to work better...just need to deploy.

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    Comment #4288005

    most def...we need to differentiate them better.

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    Comment #4287933

    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 currentl…

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    Comment #4287896

    We will be adding sort/search by author/reviewer as we grow the db.

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    Comment #4287840

    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 newslett…

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    Comment #4287757

    Amazon is user reviews only. We like RottenTomatoes aggregate from professional critics like NYTimes & select bloggers to create a book recommendation of higher quality.