Venture capitalists vs. trolls

“Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. Is it possible that one third of the engineering teams in our portfolio unethically misappropriated technology from someone else and then made that the basis of their web services? No! That’s not what is happening. … Our companies are being attacked by companies that were not even in the same market, very often by companies they did not even know existed.” [Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures via Pete Warden]

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