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From the Ted Talk by Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital

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The idea, though, of doing it together still seemed a little crazy. ________ compete with each other for investment, it _____ hundreds of meetings to get a check. That I would spend my precious 15 minutes in front of an investor talking not just about my own company, but all the companies in the batch, was _____________. But the idea ______ on. And we decided to cooperate, rather than _______. Every _______ put 10 percent of their equity into a communal pool that we then split into tradable cryptocurrency that investors could buy and sell. Six months and four law firms later —

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  5. caught
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Original Text

The idea, though, of doing it together still seemed a little crazy. Startups compete with each other for investment, it takes hundreds of meetings to get a check. That I would spend my precious 15 minutes in front of an investor talking not just about my own company, but all the companies in the batch, was unprecedented. But the idea caught on. And we decided to cooperate, rather than compete. Every company put 10 percent of their equity into a communal pool that we then split into tradable cryptocurrency that investors could buy and sell. Six months and four law firms later —

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