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2008-06-23
Weekly Close

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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 16 – June 23, 2008 170 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 26 · Issue 175 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

Business 11 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. Happiness as Your Business Model

  4. Startup Business Strategy For The Simple-Minded

Sports 4 stories

  1. Skills shortage hits games firms

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  1. Wine 1.0 released

  2. Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer

  3. Google jumps into the website traffic comparison game with Google Trends for Websites

Technology 141 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. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

  3. 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

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

  5. Inventions they said would never work

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. Robbery caught on JTV

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  1. Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass

  2. Netflix killing extra queues to "improve" service

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