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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 29 – August 5, 2008 187 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 218 Get it by email ↓
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Google To Launch Venture Fund

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Business 19 stories

  1. Google To Launch Venture Fund

  2. Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them

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

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  1. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

  2. Why I'm Not Working on my Startup (yet)

  3. My experiences on a one month startup

  4. Paul Graham, Changing the World and "Built to Flip" Startups

Sports 8 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

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

  2. How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch

  3. Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Adds Auto-Twitter Integration So You Can Tweet Your Tips

Technology 147 stories

  1. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

  2. John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability

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  1. How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)

  2. Calvin and Jobs (comic)

  3. Part-time apps developers getting rich

  4. Xkcd - Linux, a cautionary tale

  5. Last.fm Blog: Quality Control

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. The NetFlix of Junk

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  1. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

  2. Saving The Music Business

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