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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 5 – July 12, 2008 202 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 194 Get it by email ↓
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Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

Business 13 stories

  1. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

  2. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

  3. Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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  1. Why Project Management is important to startups (notes from Niel Robertson talk)

  2. Are Prestigious Educations Killing Venture Capital?

  3. Oily Speculations

  4. Google has trained us all to think like marketers

Sports 7 stories

  1. Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)

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  1. Wine Economics: They Always Buy the Ten Cent Wine

  2. AI beats human poker champions

  3. Why I Still Use Windows 95

Technology 166 stories

  1. JL: Why I Do YC

  2. Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular?

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  1. 10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

  2. Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked

  3. Learning from "bad" UI (37signals on TripLog)

  4. Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

  5. Python best practices

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

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  1. Show and Tell YC: Built a webapp in ~14 hours

  2. Blender: far from a toy, it can produce beautiful 3D images and movies (and it's free)

  3. Andreessen: "If you own newspapers, sell. If you own TV stations, sell..."

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