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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 28 – July 28, 2008 779 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 210 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

ycombinator.com · 2 sources

Also covering this thisisgoingtobebig.comThe other side of Paul Graham's Coin: Ideas on the kind of VC we'd like to get funded by
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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Follow Reddit from the Console

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Fake Steve Jobs, R.I.P.*

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

    ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  2. Profitable After 3 Weeks

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

    stephfinch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup

    gaborcselle.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

    theonion.com · 2 outlets

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

    gigaom.com · 1 outlets

  3. Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

    mixturtle.com · 5 outlets

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

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  5. Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relaunches As Startuply

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

    money.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  7. How the Man finally brought e-gold down

    stakeventures.com · 1 outlets

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

    venturehacks.com · 1 outlets

  9. Looking for Plan B - 'almost no one is seeking to create long-term value or build businesses'

    gesterling.wordpress.c · 1 outlets

  10. The Smartest Advice I Ever Got: Personal Finance

    finance.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

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

    scarybuggames.com · 1 outlets

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

    webmynd.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

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  1. NFL player IQ by position

    benfry.com · 1 outlets

  2. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    developers.slashdot.or · 1 outlets

  4. Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Founders on Passing the Hat

    gigaom.com · 1 outlets

  5. Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawing to 12 perfect pen strokes

    artyfactory.com · 1 outlets

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

    wine-econ.org · 1 outlets

Technology 559 stories

  1. Persai launches, now called Pressflip

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 12 outlets

  2. Live fulltext search in Ruby on Rails

    pullmonkey.com · 3 outlets

  3. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

    scobleizer.com · 5 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Is This The Future Of Search?

    news.yahoo.com · 4 outlets

  2. Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

    post-gazette.com · 1 outlets

  3. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why S3 went down

    status.aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  5. JL: Why I Do YC

    foundersatwork.com · 1 outlets

  6. You don't have to sell your company to have financial security

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  7. A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas

    weblog.raganwald.com · 2 outlets

  8. Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

    davidadewumi.com · 2 outlets

  9. The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 17 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

Show 6 more

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

    tweetsnap.com · 1 outlets

  2. Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking a Decision

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  3. Justin.TV Reaches 1 Million Users

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    blender.org · 1 outlets

  5. Inside the Lego Factory

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix-style Start-up Scans, Digitizes, and, if Needed, Shreds Your Files

    boston.com · 1 outlets

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