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		jpcorica on March 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask Us Anything: Y Combinator Hardware Companies C... How can we balance effort, risk taking and authorship protection vs holding progress back because of the blocking some patents create? Product revenue will be enough?

Hykso on March 15, 2016 | [–]

Somebody once told me: you'll deal with patent infringement once you're successful, which is already a big milestone...so to try to get there first.

liseman on March 15, 2016 | | [–]

Usually, abstractions like this serve as excuses to not launch. Launching doesn't fix everything, but it does increase your speed of learning dramatically.

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