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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 19 – February 18, 2008 716 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 49 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

21 New Startups in the Valley

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Heroku | the Ruby on Rails Podcast

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony"

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Business

    How to quit your job and build a startup

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. 21 New Startups in the Valley

  2. The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

  3. Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager: "I'm sure today I would never get hired."

  4. "I did my part by reading about virtualization in a trade journal. Now you do the software part"

Show 10 more
  1. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

  2. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

  3. Kiva.org: So sucessful it has run out of projects to fund

  4. Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

  5. 2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH

  6. My startup: Genetic testing for CCR5 delta 32 (HIV Resistance)

  7. The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get... From Google

  8. The Nightmare Lunch With Your Venture Capitalist

  9. Ethan Herdrick (Biographicon): Running a startup on Scheme.

  10. I'm pretty sure these guys pitched me on an angel investment last year

Sports 22 stories

  1. Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

  2. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

Show 6 more
  1. (YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

  2. Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows

  3. Windows Firewall [Pic]

  4. Drawings from an artist on LSD

  5. Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already (dBASE IV and Vista comparison)

  6. Oscilloscope Fun and Games

Technology 520 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

  2. Silicon Valley Arrogance

  3. Bill Gates Calls for "Revision of Capitalism"

Show 9 more
  1. plugin detects people in public photos

  2. Dr. Dobb's | Lean Programming II

  3. Arc's Out

  4. "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony"

  5. PG on trolls

  6. Git is the next Unix

  7. How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

  8. Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

  9. Arc Ported to JavaScript

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. YC Startup Going into Beta: Reble.FM Music Sharing

  2. Last.fm makes music free to listen to

Show 6 more
  1. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

  2. Consumption stats show the gap between rich and poor is less than most assume

  3. Tour of Justin.TV Offices

  4. Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)

  5. Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million?

  6. R.E.M. open-sources its music videos: The future of content?

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