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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 6 – October 6, 2007 745 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 279 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Venture Capital's Hidden Calamity

businessweek.com · 3 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What if Facebook merged with Amazon.com?

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Steve Jobs: "Because I Can"

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Ten Questions with Chris Brogan

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 79 stories

  1. Venture Capital's Hidden Calamity

    businessweek.com · 3 outlets

  2. YC startup Xobni launches beta at TechCrunch 40

    xobni.com · 4 outlets

  3. Is a PR/Legal Mess in Store for Facebook fbFund?

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  4. The Future of Web Startups

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup

    blog.guykawasaki.com · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

    amazon.com · 2 outlets

  3. 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)

    bnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Paul Buchheit: The next big adventure

    paulbuchheit.blogspot. · 1 outlets

  5. What are your startup's philosophies?

    zooov.com · 4 outlets

  6. User Bases, Pricing, Revenue, and the Value of Users

    blogs.xobni.com · 1 outlets

  7. PreZentit, Our Startup (Online PreZentations). Asking for feedback.

    prezentit.com · 1 outlets

  8. Vitamin: Getting a startup right the second time (imthere)

    thinkvitamin.com · 1 outlets

  9. The robots.txt Adventure

    nextthing.org · 1 outlets

  10. The Problems With My Startup

    awmf.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Showing the plug, not the cable

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  2. The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich

    slate.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Justin.tv Wins Funding, Opens Platform

    newteevee.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Unwinding of the Asian Currency Crisis

    bitsofnews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Mint Wins TechCrunch40 $50,000 Award

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  4. Squash the Bug, Then Close the Window

    blogs.xobni.com · 2 outlets

  5. Amazon EC2 loses user data

    developer.amazonwebser · 1 outlets

  6. Tens of thousands of Japanese housewives drawn into currency day-trading, lose billions

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 505 stories

  1. The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, Part 1

    blog.pmarca.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ruby on Rails Security Guide

    oreillynet.com · 6 outlets

  3. James Hong: A lesson on life...

    post-gazette.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge around AJAX

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to Do Philosophy

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. Aaron Swartz: Sweating the Small Stuff

    aaronsw.jottit.com · 3 outlets

  4. C++ is a horrible language, says Linus Torvalds

    thread.gmane.org · 1 outlets

  5. "10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota

    math.tamu.edu · 1 outlets

  6. California

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  7. Guide to Low Cost, High-Impact Websites

    blog.wajsbrem.com · 1 outlets

  8. Physician with a Slick, Web 2.0-ish Method of Practice

    jayparkinsonmd.com · 1 outlets

  9. Love at First Byte

    stanfordalumni.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. Amazon Launches DRM-free Music Store

    wired.com · 3 outlets

  2. Submit Your Code To Be Refactored

    refactormycode.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Justin.tv breaks live flash video streaming record

    blog.justin.tv · 1 outlets

  2. 5 Ways to Redesign the Movie Theater Experience.

    fourstarters.com · 1 outlets

  3. Netflix Hiring Practices and Benefits

    businessweek.com · 1 outlets

  4. 8.38% on Netflix Progress Prize

    netflixprize.com · 1 outlets

  5. "Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers" (not a joke!)

    scottaaronson.com · 1 outlets

  6. Artists Build Secret Apt in the Mall, Prov RI

    boston.com · 1 outlets

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