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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 2 – September 1, 2008 776 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 245 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns

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1Articles

What dominated September

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

  2. Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

  3. A Fundraising Survival Guide

  4. Business Requirements are Bullshit

Show 10 more
  1. They sold the startup, then bought it back.. (footytips.com.au)

  2. Lessons from a Startup Acquisition

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

  4. Y Combinator Startups - Ranked Index

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

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

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

  8. Series AA Equity Financing Documents

  9. How To Demo Your Startup

  10. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0

Sports 35 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

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

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

  4. Sprouts game

  5. Picwing (YC Summer 08) on Engadget

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

Technology 574 stories

  1. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

  2. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

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

Show 9 more
  1. John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability

  2. Hyperbrain Owner's Manual - 1. the big picture

  3. Start a side project, says GitHub founder

  4. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

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

  6. Calvin and Jobs (comic)

  7. Series AA Documents Back Online

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

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

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

  2. 7 Ways I've Almost Killed FreshBooks

Show 6 more
  1. Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music

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

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

  4. Launchbox Startups

  5. Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

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

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