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2008-08-11
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 4 – August 11, 2008 174 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 224 Get it by email ↓
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A Fundraising Survival Guide

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1Articles

Business 15 stories

  1. A Fundraising Survival Guide

  2. Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios

  3. Keep track of all the Y Combinator startups on one Slinkset-powered site

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  1. Why I'm Not Working on my Startup (yet)

  2. YouNoodle Startup Predictor now live to try it for yourself.

  3. How To Demo Your Startup

  4. Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies

Sports 6 stories

  1. History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player in 9-stone game

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  1. Why Do People Say "Yes?" The "6 Weapons of Influence"

  2. How Not To Sell Out: Talk by Matt Haughey of MeFi on growing a site into a small business

  3. Windows Vista security 'rendered useless' by researcher

Technology 139 stories

  1. The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides

  2. The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

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  1. What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey

  2. Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...

  3. The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC

  4. A Coder in Courierland

  5. URL Rewriting for Beginners

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music

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  1. Launchbox Startups

  2. AlterEgo Shows Off Incredibly Realistic 3D Animated Faces

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