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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 1 – March 2, 2008 707 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 62 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Yahoo-Microsoft merger bad news for startups?

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Business

    Ask YC: feedback on my startup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Silicon Valley Arrogance

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Heroku | the Ruby on Rails Podcast

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Yahoo-Microsoft merger bad news for startups?

  2. The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

  3. Chris Anderson: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

  4. "I did my part by reading about virtualization in a trade journal. Now you do the software part"

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  1. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

  2. Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

  3. Press for Startups: 10 tips

  4. Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

  5. Average startup profitability is to decrease by 30-40% in 2008-2018

  6. How to ensure your startup will fail

  7. US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

  8. Biographicon (YC Startup) Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses

  9. The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get... From Google

  10. Joel Spolsky talks about how to bootstrap your business with no cash

Sports 23 stories

  1. Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

  2. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

Show 6 more
  1. Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

  2. (YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

  3. One of the most bizarre game mechanics ever.

  4. Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows

  5. This isn’t a zero-sum game

  6. Windows Firewall [Pic]

Technology 525 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

  2. Bill Gates demos Xobni

  3. Ultra High Level Programming Language

Show 9 more
  1. Dr. Dobb's | Lean Programming II

  2. "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony"

  3. Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote

  4. PG on trolls

  5. News.YC open-sourced

  6. Joel: How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in the Army

  7. The importance of launching early and staying alive

  8. Don't Become a Scientist.

  9. Git is the next Unix

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize

  2. Nice graphic: box office revenues since 1986

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  1. YC Startup Going into Beta: Reble.FM Music Sharing

  2. Electron Caught On Film For The First Time

  3. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

  4. Consumption stats show the gap between rich and poor is less than most assume

  5. New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations

  6. Launchbox, a YC clone, is now ready to take applications

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