Mr. Perez decided to base the company's future on consumer and commercial inkjet printing.
The music-selling site AllofMP3.com uses a simpler business model: Base your company in Russia, steal music from American labels and sell it cheaply.
The main selling points were food and weather: S?o Paulo, where they decided to base the company, has over 12, 000 restaurants, and the average temperature is 70 degrees.
Each benefit program is customized according to the needs of the employee base of the company.
But, given its thin financial base, the company would be unwise to aim to be a force in every market that deregulates.
Green startups have their company base in Pittsburgh because of how strongly the city welcomes and supports green technology and environmentally friendly innovation.
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However, in order to retain a broader membership base, the company now offers a variety of business and home services that are excellent in their value offerings.
With a goal of growing its user base, the company aims to continue innovating and improving its products and services to drive growth in all its geographic segments.
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There is another curious dimension to that relationship: with about 30 million taxpayers in the UK, the shareholder base of this company would be far bigger than that of any other entity of which I know.
But, even as it developed an avid fan base, the bus company also earned an unsavory reputation.
The FT would undoubtedly prefer not only to manage such subscriptions themselves but also not to have that subscriber base known to another company.
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Steve Jobs grew very rich because his vision of the future was most in line with that of a growing customer base that showered his company with money.
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He will be replaced by Andrew Mackenzie, currently head of the company's base metals business.
But is planting virtual tomatoes and plugging make-believe mobsters enough to base a billion-dollar company on?
The company says the base engine will get 38 mpg on the highway.
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He moved back to the company's base in London and held a series of finance jobs, wedding his knowledge of petroleum engineering to the discipline of return on investment.
That may prove a lasting problem: being a Skolkovo resident does not mean that a company has to base its operations in the city, even after it is built.
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Meeting schedules and building on this sales base is critical if the company (and, by extension Japan) is going to be a player in the small scale passenger jet industry.
Fifteen years ago, the WineBid customer base was so small the company didn't keep track of the numbers, said Mr. Zech, who joined the company four years after it was founded.
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The larger deposit base will give the combined company economies of scale and will enable it to compete with JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America with a "nationwide banking presence, " he says.
Although the company's base and its board are firmly British, and the government has the power to veto foreign shareholders, Mr Hoon was right in that a majority of its shareholders are American.
Last week, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg indicated that he had no intention to start a bidding war and planned to build his company's base of corporate clients organically, rather than through acquisition.
But he does it in an unexpected place: not at the company's base on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia, Canada, but in a small warehouse far from the sea in Louisville, Kentucky.
In return, Fiat had expected a 35% stake in Chrysler, a strong base from which to buy the rest of the company should it so wish, as well as a manufacturing and distribution base in America.
The company still has to prove itself with a broader user base while avoiding another startup death trap a large company like Foursquare or Facebook, a current partner, rolling out a similar service should it work.
Last month I flew the Eclipse 500 at the company's home base, Albuquerque International Sunport Airport.
Once a client base had been established, the company opened its office in Austin.
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An assault force comprised of an infantry company staged in Tango base will attack the back of the castle.
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In the third quarter, the company's subscriber base in India grew 53% to 9.7 million, compared with the same quarter in 2004.
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