Andreessen, at around 07:15, he took a contrarian view, suggesting that there are lots of lessons venture capital could be sharing with social investing firms (like the one his wife Laura has been running for 12 years).

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The business of laying fibre-optic cable, both terrestrially and under the sea, used to be the preserve of incumbent telecoms operators sharing the burden of capital-intensive projects.

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The car-sharing concept has been attracting venture capital in the past few years.

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By sprinkling a massive number of out-of-towners (and their wallets) throughout a city, room-sharing sites have the ability to bring huge amounts of capital into new neighborhoods.

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Sharing infrastructure with the user base who want only Internet access spreads the capital cost and the economics obviously improve.

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It's just that they discovered that the best way to change the world was to take venture capital, or ad revenue, and then to have an IPO, as a means to sharing the product with as many people as possible.

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The government's export credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), will launch an Export Working Capital Scheme, a Bond Support Scheme, and will support banks offering foreign exchange hedging contracts to SMEs by sharing credit risk.

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