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" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "
Mitch Kapor
Angel
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" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "
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" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "
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" The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in. "
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" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
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" The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet. "
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" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
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