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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by omouse on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:32AM (#13652659)
Read through their GlassDoor reviews, it suggests they're an awful company on both the dev and sales side. And that means thatm at this point, their product probably isn't very good because devs keep leaving. Which means it'll be a mountain of technical debt to deal with and of course the inevitable, "omg we must have new features X, Y, and Z".

They're no longer a startup, yet they act like it. If they didn't raise more cash I would suspect that they would be out of business in a few short years.

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by djsumdog on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:53AM (#13653373)
Sucks because I'd like to see real disruption in the text book industry. It's like trying to compete against Wal-Mart .. I still shop at Target/Kroger/et. al, but I realize they now employ a lot of the same supply chain practices Wal-Mart started just to stay competitive.

So it makes me wonder if Top Hat, claiming to be disruptive and different, is or will eventually employee questionable practices just like the current industry.

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