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<\/p>\nI\u2019ve learned a positive thing about humanity doing startups. People aren\u2019t as threatened by your products as you might think.<\/p>\n
On a previous startup, I published Wikipedia articles with mouseover links to similar citable sentences, so students could get around the rule that you can\u2019t cite Wikipedia. I expected an outcry from teachers and lecturers but instead I had a whole lot of progressive teachers supporting the site. They saw it as a bridge to help their students jump out to other sources.<\/p>\n
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On NetComber, I published reports showing domains connected by ownership. When companies spun off sites that they didn\u2019t want associated with their legitimate business, they were exposed. Our most common complainant were law firms like smithandpartners.com<\/i> creating domains like getoutofjailfree.com<\/i>. But I spent many sleepless nights worrying about the real bad guys. How far would they go to get these links taken down? Instead, the contact usually went more like this: “So, how did you work it out?” Once I told them, they’d change the site to try to avoid detection and come back politely asking us to update their records. We never did oblige, but I was pleasantly surprised that the response was mostly \u201cwe need to lift our game\u201d, not \u201cLet\u2019s kill Luke Metcalfe\u201d.<\/p>\n