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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 15 – June 22, 2008 166 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 174 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup)

Business 9 stories

  1. BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup)

  2. How not to approach an investor

  3. The Business of XKCD

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  1. “Ninety percent of doctors I know are fed up with medicine.”

  2. Redeye VC: Validate Your Own Damn Market (aka Entrepreneur Pickup Lines)

  3. Startup Business Strategy For The Simple-Minded

  4. Morgan Stanley warns of 'catastrophic event' as ECB fights Federal Reserve

Sports 6 stories

  1. Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

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  1. Skills shortage hits games firms

  2. Wine 1.0 released

  3. Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore

Technology 137 stories

  1. The Future of Email: From SMTP to XMPP

  2. Reddit Makes Their Code Open Source

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  1. Done, and Gets Things Smart

  2. 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

  3. The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes.

  4. Inventions they said would never work

  5. A kind reminder to the community: please (re)read the HN guidelines

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Robbery caught on JTV

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  1. Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass

  2. Spore Leaked And Being Broadcast Live (Web 2 + Gaming)

  3. Netflix killing extra queues to "improve" service

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