# Startups

`kaal:entity:startups`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `startups`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2019 to 2021.

**2019**

- [3411110-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411110-008) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- The compliance burden attached to operating an alternative trading system, including fees, consumer protection, examination, and books and records requirements, is typically cost prohibitive for startups.
  > ATS compliance costs are typically cost prohibitive for startups.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Blockchain-Based Securities Offerings (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411110

**2021**

- [3782198-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-019) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The success of the open source movement itself creates a vulnerability: major corporations can pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and exploit the work more profitably than the startup can.
  > Another problem is that the very success of the open source move- ment allows major corporations to pressure smaller projects to reveal their code, then take it and use their power to exploit the work more profitably than the startup.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

## Verify

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