Venture firms, which are often heavily involved in running their anointed companies, get the big payoff when these tyros go public or get acquired.

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Those same maverick tyros are part of the establishment now - as is Archie, the suburban lawyer and father of two whom Roth portrays in Rufus Norris's Broken.

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Registered capital is the default metric for financial risk assessment here (a very poor tool, but it is what it is), and the government typically includes requirements related to industry experience in an attempt to raise the bar slightly for market entry, thereby keeping out the inexperienced tyros that would be likely to fail.

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