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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 19 – April 18, 2007 689 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 108 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to market your startup

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Now Don Dodge is writing about Paul's essay

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    3 YC Companies That Have Gained Some "Traction"

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 78 stories

  1. How to market your startup

  2. Gapminder: very cool new acquisition by Google

  3. Why to Not Not Start a Startup

  4. Paul Buchheit: Equity math for startups (sometimes 0.1% equals $138 million)

Show 10 more
  1. Thoughts on Mitch Kapor vs. Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School

  2. How to Get the Attention of a Venture Capitalist

  3. A VC: Why Seed Investing Is Less Risky Than Later Stage Investing

  4. How to Hack Venture Capital

  5. 4 reasons why startup secrecy is overrated

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

  7. Great Summary of the Highlights of StartupSchool

  8. YC startup launches: Project Wedding

  9. Why You Have to Work for a Startup

  10. Anybody using Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) in their startup?

Sports 13 stories

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

  2. It's Still Very Early, But Scribd Looks Like A Winner

Show 6 more
  1. How to Build a Profitable Startup by Knowing Your Users Better

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

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

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

  5. Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

  6. Software Development as a Collaborative Game

Technology 413 stories

  1. Google buys Doubleclick for $3.1 Billion

  2. 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne

  3. Facebook open-sourcing Thrift, their software framework

Show 9 more
  1. Most Impressive Recruiting Pitch I've Ever Seen!

  2. My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

  3. Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes

  4. Why Y Combinator is a waste of time

  5. Scaling Y Combinator: the Grahambot [PNG]

  6. Didn't make it to YC? Check this one from TechCrunch.

  7. Two Kinds of Judgement

  8. The Architecture of Mailinator - averaging 4.5million emails a day on a single 2Ghz machine

  9. Make Something People Want

Entertainment 39 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix: Take as much vacation as you want.

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

  3. Justin is having sex NOW on justin.tv

  4. Demomyapp.com - Showcase your demo to the world

  5. Justin.tv on real TV: CBS 5 interview

  6. Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?

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