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Re:Ask HN: Protecting your innovation from the big guys on Friday November 18, 2011 @08:16AM (#3251607)
Thanks for the reply. My thoughts on patents are pretty much the same, its probably not the best use of time and money.

Feels a risky strategy to just rely on them not noticing. I know a couple of competitors have signed up for our service and following on twitter etc.

Ask HN: Protecting your innovation from the big guys

First off, excuse the cryptic nature of this post, hopefully all will become clear.I have a profitable startup started fromn scratch with no investment in a competetive, but relatively stale in terms of innovation, industry. We are a tiny player competing for business with plenty of big guys with massive budgets. We're not even close to being able to compete on advertising or marketing for...

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