The Mez Ledger
Menu
The month in reviewVol. 08 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 2008-08-02
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 3 – August 2, 2008 809 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 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
2Outlets
2Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Fake Steve Jobs, R.I.P.*

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why Won't Google Video Just Die?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 66 stories

  1. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

    ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  2. Profitable After 3 Weeks

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. The real cost of starting a startup?

    37signals.blogs.com · 2 outlets

  4. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

    stephfinch.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them

    smartnow.com · 1 outlets

  2. Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup

    gaborcselle.com · 2 outlets

  3. Balsamiq, a bootstrapped startup featured here some time ago, makes $10k in 6 weeks

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  4. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

    theonion.com · 2 outlets

  5. 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

    gigaom.com · 2 outlets

  6. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

    mixturtle.com · 4 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  9. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

    money.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  10. How the Man finally brought e-gold down

    stakeventures.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    scarybuggames.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    webmynd.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  2. NFL player IQ by position

    benfry.com · 1 outlets

  3. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    developers.slashdot.or · 1 outlets

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

    gigaom.com · 2 outlets

  6. Yuil vs. Cuil - The hack wins hands down...

    laserlike.com · 1 outlets

Technology 586 stories

  1. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

    skitoy.com · 2 outlets

  2. Live fulltext search in Ruby on Rails

    pullmonkey.com · 3 outlets

  3. Perl Myths (slides from OSCON 2008)

    timbunce.files.wordpre · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

    scobleizer.com · 5 outlets

  2. Is This The Future Of Search?

    news.yahoo.com · 6 outlets

  3. 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia

    thenextweb.org · 4 outlets

  4. Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

    nukemanbill.blogspot.c · 5 outlets

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

    post-gazette.com · 1 outlets

  6. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

  7. Why S3 went down

    status.aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  8. JL: Why I Do YC

    foundersatwork.com · 1 outlets

  9. A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas

    weblog.raganwald.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 15 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. The NetFlix of Junk

    futureboy.blogs.fsb.cn · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    tweetsnap.com · 1 outlets

  2. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

    xach.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

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.

Browse every monthly close →