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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 17 – July 17, 2008 787 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 199 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Diary of a Failed Startup

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Registration Open for Google Code Jam

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    My interview with murderer Hans Reiser

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Three Questions About Each Bug You Find

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. Diary of a Failed Startup

  2. Profitable After 3 Weeks

  3. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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

Show 10 more
  1. A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.

  2. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

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

  4. How not to approach an investor

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

  6. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

  7. Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

  8. I have a job offer at a startup, am I getting a good deal? Part 1.

  9. My Business Magazines Lied to Me

  10. Google Finance Stock Screener

Sports 22 stories

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

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

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  1. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

  2. Why Apple didn't use X for the window system

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

  4. AI beats human poker champions

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

  6. Skills shortage hits games firms

Technology 584 stories

  1. Scaling Facebook vs. scaling LinkedIn

  2. The Future of Email: From SMTP to XMPP

  3. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

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  1. Reddit Makes Their Code Open Source

  2. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

  3. JL: Why I Do YC

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

  5. The Secret to Bill Gates' Success

  6. Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

  7. 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

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

  9. How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates

Entertainment 21 stories

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

  2. 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. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

  3. Robbery caught on JTV

  4. Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking a Decision

  5. Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass

  6. The Problem With Music

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