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Compaq: Venture Capital Bets on a Legal IBM-Compatible Portable Computer

Compaq combined $2.5 million of venture backing with a legally reverse-engineered IBM-compatible design, proving that startups could capture value from IBM's standard without copying IBM's code.

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