At Exponential we work off a for-profit model designed to grow the Hungarian entrepreneurship community.
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If it takes off, there is a potential for an ongoing audience and profit model.
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Its interest in Converteam shows its interest in the renewable energy space is a part of its profit model.
But consider this: Even if the startup craters, the old cash cow's profit model will have been torched beyond recognition in the battle.
Originally launched as a non-profit organization over a decade ago, the organization has ballooned in scale and size since adopting the for-profit model.
They argue that higher interest rates are justified as they allow for a sustainable operation which is able to scale more easily than the non-profit model.
Intel also argues that its for-profit model is more sustainable than OLPC's nonprofit model, which Intel says may eventually fold and leave developing countries without updates or support.
As they note, there is really only one critical difference between the current, expensive model that excludes the majority of people who need this service and the for-profit model: a legal framework.
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How far can the non-profit model take us?
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Many bioethics organizations such as the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University which 15 years ago objected to the buying and selling of kidneys have now come full circle, favorably featuring those who believe a for-profit model has virtues.
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Thus while the core micro finance is a for-profit model all other life quality supporting services are rendered either free or non-profit basis. and on core micro finance, through our focus on efficiency we probably offer a rate which is lower than not-for-profit NGOs too!
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In fact, the shortage of sperm and egg donors (in 2010, the last year for which data in the United States were available, fewer than 1000 embryo donations were recorded) has prompted robust discussions around the world about the potential benefits and challenges of a for-profit model.
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"We put every dollar of revenue or outside funding toward identifying a scalable, for-profit business model, " he says.
But there will be some level of cannibalisation, where customers who would have bought the full price, high profit, model will now trade down.
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He wanted to use the Non Profit Distributing model under the auspices of the Scottish Futures Trust, arguing that Mr Swinney had over-promised on NPD and under-delivered.
In fact, in a way they matter more in this model than in the traditional profit-above-all model.
It is no secret that I have also predicted that the for-profit health insurance model is doomed to meet its end.
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The for-profit college business model is essentially built on these lines: diploma mills which exist solely on the government dime and yet are almost entirely unregulated.
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And over time, to support these resources and processes to deliver upon the value proposition, the fourth component, a profit or revenue model, emerges the money that the organization needs to bring in to support these inputs.
Typically about the business model, profit margins, distribution etc.
With health care currently a hot-button political issue, Dr. Dave sees this local, not-for-profit health system as a model for how national health care in America could work.
It has the temerity to out-profit the profit-above-all model.
Whereas SKS is a traditional "for profit" organization, Grameen's model is what Yunus describes as a " Social Business" (also described as a "non-loss, non-dividend" business).
But if high-quality free courses suddenly become available across the board, that changes the business model for the for-profit sector and makes schools that accept MOOC credits more affordable.
Moda investors like Tony Florence, a general partner of venture-capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and a Moda board member, see great promise and future profit in the trunk show model, which limits risk by passing up-front costs on to customers, who pay a 50-percent deposit for their purchases during the trunk show, with the other 50 percent paid at time of delivery.
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This cash has given managers and their political masters tremendous latitude to advance the state-capitalist model without worrying too much about profit and loss.
Just trying to build more and more SUVs and counting on gas prices being low and that's your only profit margin, that's just not a model that's going to work.
Which rather destroys the business model upon which the whole of the for profit media on the web is built.
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