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How to start up a start-up

Nature Photonics volume 1, pages 301–302 (2007)Cite this article

Researchers are increasingly toying with the idea of taking their ideas out of universities and into the marketplace. Starting your own company can be extremely rewarding, but it requires perseverance and a great deal of hard work.

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  1. James C. Wyant is at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85749, USA. jcwyant@optics.arizona.edu,

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Wyant, J. How to start up a start-up. Nature Photon 1, 301–302 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.81

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