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Bill Foster: “One of the reasons that we have to depend on foreign capital for things like venture capital is that, when you have a…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2017
One of the reasons that we have to depend on foreign capital for things like venture capital is that, when you have a really good invention, like Microsoft Word, and then find that it gets pirated in other countries, you don't have the follow-on investment capital.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster discusses the impact of intellectual property violations on venture capital availability.

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