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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 1 – July 31, 2008 814 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 213 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

ycombinator.com · 2 sources

Also covering this thisisgoingtobebig.comThe other side of Paul Graham's Coin: Ideas on the kind of VC we'd like to get funded by
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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Follow Reddit from the Console

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Fake Steve Jobs, R.I.P.*

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why Won't Google Video Just Die?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 67 stories

  1. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

    ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  2. Profitable After 3 Weeks

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup

    37signals.blogs.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

    stephfinch.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup

    gaborcselle.com · 2 outlets

  2. Balsamiq, a bootstrapped startup featured here some time ago, makes $10k in 6 weeks

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

    theonion.com · 2 outlets

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

    gigaom.com · 1 outlets

  5. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

    mixturtle.com · 4 outlets

  7. Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relaunches As Startuply

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

    money.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  9. How the Man finally brought e-gold down

    stakeventures.com · 1 outlets

  10. How to Jumpstart the Economy - Tax Free Small Businesses

    blogmaverick.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    scarybuggames.com · 1 outlets

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

    webmynd.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  2. NFL player IQ by position

    benfry.com · 1 outlets

  3. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why Apple didn't use X for the window system

    developers.slashdot.or · 1 outlets

  5. Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Founders on Passing the Hat

    gigaom.com · 1 outlets

  6. Yuil vs. Cuil - The hack wins hands down...

    laserlike.com · 1 outlets

Technology 587 stories

  1. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

    skitoy.com · 2 outlets

  2. Live fulltext search in Ruby on Rails

    pullmonkey.com · 3 outlets

  3. Perl Myths (slides from OSCON 2008)

    timbunce.files.wordpre · 2 outlets

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  1. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

    scobleizer.com · 5 outlets

  2. Is This The Future Of Search?

    news.yahoo.com · 6 outlets

  3. 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia

    thenextweb.org · 4 outlets

  4. Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

    post-gazette.com · 1 outlets

  5. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why S3 went down

    status.aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  7. JL: Why I Do YC

    foundersatwork.com · 1 outlets

  8. You don't have to sell your company to have financial security

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  9. A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas

    weblog.raganwald.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 15 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    tweetsnap.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Justin.TV Reaches 1 Million Users

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    blender.org · 1 outlets

  3. Inside the Lego Factory

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  4. Netflix-style Start-up Scans, Digitizes, and, if Needed, Shreds Your Files

    boston.com · 1 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. Ustream.tv Just Got a Redesign, But Justin.tv Is Still Beating Its Pants Off

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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