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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 13 – July 13, 2008 741 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 195 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Diary of a Failed Startup

diffle-history.blogspo · 2 sources

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    My interview with murderer Hans Reiser

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What is it like to write a technical book?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Don’t end your urls with .exe

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Diary of a Failed Startup

    diffle-history.blogspo · 2 outlets

  2. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

    stephfinch.com · 1 outlets

  3. BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup)

    episteme.arstechnica.c · 2 outlets

  4. A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.

    canadait.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

    theonion.com · 2 outlets

  2. How not to approach an investor

    ricksegal.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  3. OpenTable Seats 3M diners per month, generates serious revenue

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  4. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

    money.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  5. Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. My Business Magazines Lied to Me

    coconutheadsets.com · 1 outlets

  7. 8 Golden Rules of Interface Design

    faculty.washington.edu · 1 outlets

  8. The Business of XKCD

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. Detailed revenue breakdown of a gadget blog ($61k in dec 2007)

    selfmademinds.com · 1 outlets

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

    scribd.com · 1 outlets

Sports 22 stories

  1. Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

    rocksolidarcade.com · 1 outlets

  2. Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

    scarybuggames.com · 1 outlets

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

    webmynd.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  2. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    wine-econ.org · 1 outlets

  4. AI beats human poker champions

    eetimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Google Way of Science - The Growing Importance of Data

    kk.org · 1 outlets

  6. Skills shortage hits games firms

    news.bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

Technology 556 stories

  1. Decommodify your product

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 8 outlets

  2. Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

    timesonline.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. The Future of Email: From SMTP to XMPP

    anarchogeek.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Reddit Makes Their Code Open Source

    blog.reddit.com · 3 outlets

  2. Done, and Gets Things Smart

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

  3. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

    theamericanscholar.org · 1 outlets

  4. JL: Why I Do YC

    foundersatwork.com · 1 outlets

  5. How to sell your software for $20,000

    nukemanbill.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

  6. The Secret to Bill Gates' Success

    blog.seattlepi.nwsourc · 4 outlets

  7. Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

    davidadewumi.com · 2 outlets

  8. 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

    cpd.ogi.edu · 1 outlets

  9. I'm not sure who this Oleg person is, but he sure has some cool links on his site.

    okmij.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 20 stories

  1. 7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off

    dmix.ca · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    tweetsnap.com · 1 outlets

  2. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Robbery caught on JTV

    blog.justin.tv · 1 outlets

  4. Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking a Decision

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass

    blogmaverick.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Problem With Music

    negativland.com · 1 outlets

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