Title: Hello All,<p>I would appreciate very frank advice on what I should do with my start up, Anaphoric Systems 
(http://www.anaphoric.com).<p>The whole effort started as a research project several years ago, but when I was informed that I actually owned the system, I entered a business plan competition and then started to execute on the plan.<p>The problem is that I have been wearing two hats: 'researcher/educator' and 'entrepreneur'. This has led to conflicts of interest as well as diluted effectiveness. So basically I need to decide if I am going to 1.) quit my tenured position, move to a start-up hub, find a partner, get-funding, etc. or 2.) open source the whole project and treat it as a research project. (It's 18k lines of LISP). I suppose in case 2 I could always do something commercial if the system was of high impact.<p>I am leaning toward option 2, but I thought I should run my plan by the YC community first.<p>Regards,<p>Michael Minock
(http://www.cs.umu.se/~mjm)
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