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How to Start a Startup

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Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Dont do what we did.

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