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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 8 – April 15, 2007 145 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 105 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Paul Graham: Handling Investors (talk at Stanford 11 April 07)

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Business 18 stories

  1. Paul Graham: Handling Investors (talk at Stanford 11 April 07)

  2. 30 Apparent Reasons You Launched Your Startup

  3. Interesting funding information about some YC alums (includes Reddit's acquisition price)

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  1. Facebook cover story from Fast Company - Hacker, Dropout, CEO

  2. Bessemer's Anti-Portfolio: Missed (great) investment opportunities

  3. Wired's Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt

  4. Why big companies suck and startups should beat them

Sports 5 stories

  1. The Option Pool Shuffle: Beat the game and raise your valuation

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  1. Fun startup: analyzes live sports scores to suggest can't-miss games on now

  2. Work/Sleep/Shop Triangle (summary: work at home, be close to beer, be happy)

  3. Wink: a free tool that you can use to create your demo in flash (Linux + Windows)

Technology 102 stories

  1. Google buys Doubleclick for $3.1 Billion

  2. Most Impressive Recruiting Pitch I've Ever Seen!

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  1. From Google (Norvig): How to write a spelling check in 20 lines (very cool)

  2. Lessons learned after 3 months of Y Combinator

  3. Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes

  4. The best domain name search tool I've used

  5. Fire and Motion

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. There's food for thought at Justin.tv (Inside the YScraper)

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  1. Justin.tv on NPR (includes link to audio)

  2. Dinner-and-a-Movie Theory: Why Reddit Gets it Backwards

  3. Justin is having sex NOW on justin.tv

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