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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). Hence this “Cliff’s Notes” refresher, to be followed by a discussion of why it matters.