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In 1982 at the first BIEC mission to India, one of the speakers prefaced his comments by telling the story of the two men standing by a freshly dug grave in a Yorkshire cemetery. One man turned to his friend and read the inscription on the gravestone: ‘Here lies John Smith, banker and philanthropist’ and then added: ‘things must be tough, when they bury two men in one grave!’
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Hargreaves-Allen, P. (1989). UK Private Placement and Venture Capital. In: Miller, R. (eds) BIEC Yearbook 1989–1990. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11350-7_16
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