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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 6 – March 7, 2008 713 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 67 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Silicon Valley Arrogance

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test?

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Interview With a Secretary

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 46 stories

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

  2. Have a great iPhone idea? Apply now to KPCB's iFund!

  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 25 stories

  1. Using Microsoft Excel as a 3D Game Engine

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

Show 6 more
  1. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

  2. Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

  3. (YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

  4. Games People Play - Bayesian filters in recruiting

  5. One of the most bizarre game mechanics ever.

  6. Amazon To Enter Wine Business

Technology 537 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

  2. Warren Buffett is now the richest man in the world (beating Bill Gates after 13 years).

  3. Ultra High Level Programming Language

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  1. Dr. Dobb's | Lean Programming II

  2. Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things

  3. Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code

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

  5. PG on trolls

  6. Workplace Experiments at 37signals

  7. News.YC open-sourced

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

  9. The importance of launching early and staying alive

Entertainment 13 stories

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

  2. Nice graphic: box office revenues since 1986

Show 6 more
  1. Feature Development and Traffic Growth at Justin.tv

  2. Electron Caught On Film For The First Time

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

  4. New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations

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

  6. Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)

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