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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 9 – July 16, 2008 196 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 198 Get it by email ↓
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Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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Business 15 stories

  1. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

  2. Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

  3. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

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

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

  3. Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero

  4. Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model

Sports 6 stories

  1. Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

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  1. AI beats human poker champions

  2. Chatterous (YC winter '08) raises angel round to integrate email, IM and SMS

  3. Go Games, Go Information and Go Study Tools

Technology 163 stories

  1. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

  2. 10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

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  1. How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)

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

  3. Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

  4. The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate

  5. ITunes is Anti-Web

Entertainment 6 stories

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

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

  2. Brain scans show "sleeping on a problem" at work

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

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