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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 1 – August 31, 2008 783 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 244 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns

avc.blogs.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google App Engine Cookbook

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    A New, Simple Way to Salt your Hashes

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Business

    Lessons from a Startup Acquisition

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns

    avc.blogs.com · 1 outlets

  2. Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. A Fundraising Survival Guide

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. Business Requirements are Bullshit

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

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  1. They sold the startup, then bought it back.. (footytips.com.au)

    slate.com · 2 outlets

  2. Lessons from a Startup Acquisition

    balsamiq.com · 4 outlets

  3. So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...

    whatmightymousehaslear · 1 outlets

  4. Y Combinator Startups - Ranked Index

    ycstartups.com · 3 outlets

  5. A Newbie’s Guide to Startup Compensation (or “Stock Options will Make Me Rich”)

    tonywright.com · 1 outlets

  6. "The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  7. My Startup project: ErrorKey.com, a tool for hackers.

    errorkey.com · 1 outlets

  8. Series AA Equity Financing Documents

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  9. How To Demo Your Startup

    alleyinsider.com · 4 outlets

  10. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0

    teddziuba.com · 2 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

    msnbc.msn.com · 1 outlets

  2. Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

    shoooes.net · 1 outlets

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  1. Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

    voltagecreative.com · 1 outlets

  2. Redesigned 8-bit and 16-bit games (Some unbelievable)

    neogaf.com · 1 outlets

  3. Myspace's Tom Anderson was an 80s "WarGames" Hacker

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Picwing (YC Summer 08) on Engadget

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  5. Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile

    blogs.zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  6. History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player in 9-stone game

    usgo.org · 1 outlets

Technology 581 stories

  1. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

    amazon.com · 4 outlets

  2. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

    vimeo.com · 2 outlets

  3. Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means

    blog.headius.com · 2 outlets

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  1. John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability

    mpt.net.nz · 2 outlets

  2. Start a side project, says GitHub founder

    gist.github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

    aaronsw.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides

    www-tech.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  5. Calvin and Jobs (comic)

    farm4.static.flickr.co · 1 outlets

  6. Series AA Documents Back Online

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  7. The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

    sethgodin.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  8. For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  9. What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey

    academicbiz.typepad.co · 1 outlets

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

    blog.wired.com · 2 outlets

  2. 7 Ways I've Almost Killed FreshBooks

    freshbooks.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google Insights shows what sites are mainstream and which ones are still early adopter

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  3. Songbird beta launches (includes integration with Songkick for concert tickets)

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Launchbox Startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

    newscientist.com · 1 outlets

  6. What's Wrong with Western Music? Part III. "Passacaglia in Cm"

    tinyrevolution.com · 1 outlets

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