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Re:Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? by 10ren on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:45AM (#616435)
I edited out part of my comment where I said that doing that month's research was a "fear-based approach".

I deleted it because I didn't think it added anything; but today I noticed that some things I am doing are fear-based in a similar way - what if the work I'm doing isn't as new as I hope it is? And I noticed I was afraid... because checking it out would be an exhausting distraction - and not guaranteed to find it anyway. So I'm a sitting duck! My comment to you helped me to notice that I was taking a fear-based approach. Hence this reply to reinstate it.

Fears, even if accurate, are not particularly helpful to a startup.

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Re:Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? by stevejalim on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @04:47AM (#616470)
Yeah, I agree about the fear-based thing. I certainly was operating from that POV for the startup I was talking about above - mainly cos it was my first experiences of it all, etc, and it was an idea I'd been sat on for years and was emotionally very close to it. I am definitely operating more out of the headspace of being propelled by excitement/a wish to make things happen these days, tho do still notice the fear factor creeping in from time to time... :o)
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