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The month's top story

Why Your Startup Will Fail

onstartups.com · 2 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with an Adware Author

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Google opens Jaiku source code

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Should developers worry about ageism?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Why Your Startup Will Fail

    onstartups.com · 2 outlets

  2. The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million)

    siteanalytics.compete. · 1 outlets

  3. How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included)

    andrewchenblog.com · 1 outlets

  4. Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Employees working on their own business

    discuss.joelonsoftware · 1 outlets

  2. The Economy According To Mint

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. 8 "frat-boy" business ideas

    iwillteachyoutoberich. · 1 outlets

  4. Services Worth Paying For as a Startup

    emadibrahim.com · 1 outlets

  5. More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development

    stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Mint CEO on how to build a startup

    scribd.com · 1 outlets

  7. Angels flee from startup investments

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

    paulstamatiou.com · 1 outlets

  9. Change We Can Profit From: A start-up inspired by Barack Obama

    telegraph.co.uk · 2 outlets

  10. Virgin America goes Slinkset...$25k going to a Boston non-profit

    slinksetmatch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

  1. Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation

    sciam.com · 1 outlets

  2. How we roll in Amsterdam - A method of transportation you should use too

    ski-epic.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

    mindyourdecisions.com · 1 outlets

  2. LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua

    love2d.org · 1 outlets

  3. Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git

    alumnit.ca · 1 outlets

  4. Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. How to game the U.S. higher-education system

    kuro5hin.org · 1 outlets

  6. Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I.

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 556 stories

  1. Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients

    al3x.net · 2 outlets

  2. Google AJAX API Playground

    blog.searchenginewatch · 6 outlets

  3. Wikipedia list of algorithms

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Some things need to change

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout

    flownet.com · 2 outlets

  3. Keep Your Identity Small

    paulgraham.com · 2 outlets

  4. Why Google Employees Quit

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Should developers worry about ageism?

    catonmat.net · 4 outlets

  6. Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

    friendfeed.com · 1 outlets

  7. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  8. How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage

    userscape.com · 1 outlets

  9. The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective

    semyon.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  2. Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus

    sciencenews.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  2. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

    capitalfactory.com · 1 outlets

  3. Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser

    noteflight.com · 1 outlets

  4. Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows

    sciencedaily.com · 1 outlets

  5. Youtube starts muting videos with copyrighted music

    content.scholastic.com · 2 outlets

  6. LaunchBox Digital application now open

    launchboxdigital.com · 1 outlets

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