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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 17 – April 16, 2008 733 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 107 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

    7 of 30 days · 14 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 64 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. The Young Man's Business Model

Show 10 more
  1. Andrew Chen: Your ad-supported Web 2.0 startup is really a B2B enterprise in disguise

  2. Startup Advice for Hacker News Founders

  3. Phase 3: Profit

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

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

  6. How I Got To Startup School

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

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

  9. Startup Equity For Employees

  10. Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker

Sports 34 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

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  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 504 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. Why There Aren't More Googles

  4. Google App Engine for developers

  5. Mortgage Crisis Caused By Anti-Racist Activism

  6. Disagreeing with Paul Graham

  7. How to Lay Off Your Developers the Right Way

  8. Some Heroes

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

Entertainment 23 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. Using IMDb data for Netflix Prize

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