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Research Summary
This study examines the tension between learning and appropriability that arises as early‐stage ventures experiment in the market. When formal intellectual property protection is weak, the learning benefits of experimentation may be offset by the imitation risks. I test this argument on a hand‐collected dataset of 1,203 US‐based software ventures, using the software release life cycle...