His secondary fund, Industry Ventures, has a knack for buying startup scraps on the cheap and turning them around for a tidy profit.
As some companies may fear releasing customized applications, Sun also offers a secondary license called Sun Industry Standard Source License.
What effect this decision could have on the industry is the secondary debate going on right now.
This SharesPost loan program is part of a larger industry around the secondary markets that has grown in recent years particularly with the growth of Facebook.
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When a wool carpet surpasses its utility, it gets turned into secondary fuel for the cement industry, and the leftover chalk gets used for backing carpet tiles.
While the real test for the secondary markets will come later this year, many in the industry say even paper gains will add fuel to the already frothy valuations in the secondary marketplace.
The fear is that a panic in the secondary markets could lead to regulation that spills over into industry itself.
The biggest push for badge certification is coming from an unlikely source: industry and education reform leaders, not the post-secondary education sector.
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"If a mortgage loan can be modified during bankruptcy, it will be far more difficult to originate or sell mortgages in the secondary market, " says a Dec. 4 letter from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association to the Senate's Judiciary Committee.
While the committee applauded plans to reform the water sector, it was concerned the bill left too much of the important detail to be decided by the industry's regulator, Ofwat - or to be introduced through secondary legislation, which receives less parliamentary scrutiny.
The mobile money industry has also triggered a new wave of development, inspiring the creation of many secondary businesses, ranging from innovative financial services to the provision of utilities and digital goods.
Mr Green will visit mainstream secondary schools and specialist vocational schools and will see how vocational studies are integrated with academic skills and the demands of industry.
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