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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 4 – July 11, 2008 193 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 193 Get it by email ↓
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Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

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Business 15 stories

  1. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

  2. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

  3. Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day

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  1. Why Project Management is important to startups (notes from Niel Robertson talk)

  2. Are Prestigious Educations Killing Venture Capital?

  3. The silent market crash (S&P 500 against the price of eggs)

  4. Oily Speculations

Sports 9 stories

  1. Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)

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  1. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

  2. Wine Economics: They Always Buy the Ten Cent Wine

  3. AI beats human poker champions

Technology 156 stories

  1. JL: Why I Do YC

  2. Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular?

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  1. 10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

  2. Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked

  3. Learning from "bad" UI (37signals on TripLog)

  4. Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

  5. Python best practices

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

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  1. Show and Tell YC: Built a webapp in ~14 hours

  2. Blender: far from a toy, it can produce beautiful 3D images and movies (and it's free)

  3. Andreessen: "If you own newspapers, sell. If you own TV stations, sell..."

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