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2008-08-12
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 5 – August 12, 2008 175 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 225 Get it by email ↓
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A Fundraising Survival Guide

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

  2. How To Demo Your Startup

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

  4. Small Business Willing to Pay $1/Tweet to Send Ads

Sports 7 stories

  1. Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile

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

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

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

Technology 137 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. Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

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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