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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 15 – April 14, 2008 708 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 105 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why Not To Do A Startup

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1Articles

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google App Engine for developers

    6 of 30 days · 12 articles

  2. Technology

    Disagreeing with Paul Graham

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    What learning Lisp taught me about other languages

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 63 stories

  1. Why Not To Do A Startup

  2. Non-Advertising Business Models for Your Startup

  3. Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

  4. Andrew Chen: Your ad-supported Web 2.0 startup is really a B2B enterprise in disguise

Show 10 more
  1. Startup Advice for Hacker News Founders

  2. Phase 3: Profit

  3. Non-citizens can now work on a U.S. startup for ~2.5 years after graduation

  4. Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

  5. How I Got To Startup School

  6. Ask YC: Feedback on startup: learnitlists.com

  7. Startups can do email marketing for free, from CakeMail

  8. Startup Equity For Employees

  9. Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker

  10. Five reasons why a recession is a good time to start a company

Sports 33 stories

  1. An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader

  2. Quotably- new website makes following twitter conversations easy

Show 6 more
  1. Y Combinator - Advice for applicants. (from Mixwit, Winter 08)

  2. Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches

  3. Loopt Embraced by Verizon; Starts to Spread Its Mobile Wings

  4. How Three Nobodies Built NBA's Most Powerful News Site

  5. Wine 1.0 is finally coming out, 15 years after project started

  6. Growing a Language by Guy Steele

Technology 482 stories

  1. You weren't meant to have a boss

  2. Werner Vogels on Amazon EC2's new persistent storage feature

  3. Latent Semantic Analysis in Python

Show 9 more
  1. BigDog robot is back with a new video

  2. How to Disagree

  3. Google App Engine for developers

  4. Mortgage Crisis Caused By Anti-Racist Activism

  5. Disagreeing with Paul Graham

  6. How to Lay Off Your Developers the Right Way

  7. Some Heroes

  8. Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

  9. Sign Up Forms Must Die

Entertainment 24 stories

  1. Bellkor breaks 9% improvement in the Netflix Challenge (as of 4/1)

  2. The Feel Good Initiative. Discover new music daily.

Show 6 more
  1. Apple to offer unlimited free iTunes music to iPod/iPhone owners

  2. Gmail's Quota Secrets (slideshow)

  3. The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme

  4. Songkick wants to be the home of live music online

  5. Clickpass v. Justin.tv

  6. A laser experiment to show the Uncertainty Principle [video]

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