' But most VCS want a profitable company that they can make more profitable.
More important, a profitable company has time on its side to cultivate a favorable offer.
Until it filed its S-1 on last Thursday, the conventional wisdom was that Groupon was a profitable company.
Unlike other start-ups that seek public listing, Zynga is already a profitable company.
If he muffs the opportunity, Corning will remain a profitable company.
If we're more efficient and equally religious about being low cost, as we have been in our other businesses, we will have a profitable company.
Economist Richard Murphy, director of campaign group Tax Research UK, said it did not appear to be fair that a profitable company was not paying any UK tax.
The field of cell therapy has shown promise in the past for juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's disease and heart disease, but none of the approaches have yet to bankroll a profitable company.
Mr. DAVID COLE (Center for Automotive Research): It really does represent a fundamental new business model of labor management relations, and I think it recognizes perhaps the most important element of job security is a profitable company over the long term.
This is -- the entire purpose of the law that you're talking about was written in the '80s to prevent a private company or an investor from evading taxes in owning a profitable company and then in purchasing one that was losing money in order to take significant -- to use those significant tax losses to lower its own tax rate.
So that even though Tribune is a very profitable company, they, like the Knight Ridder Company a year ago, were forced to put themselves on the block.
Anchen is a profitable pharmaceutical company that develops and commercialized extended release and niche generic products.
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What remains to be seen is if Ackman can turn the retailer into a more profitable company in the longer term.
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While it may be tempting to try to build a profitable oil company, think instead of health services, financial professionals, software and gaming applications.
But Youku is still losing lots of money and if it does become a highly profitable company, it will take years to get there.
"We expect that they will eventually serve both police departments, military forces and civilians all over the world, and that the recurring income from sales of 'ammunition' will make this a very profitable company, " says Lutts.
DeCode hopes its heart gene finding will help it transform from an esoteric gene-sleuthing shop into a highly profitable biotech company.
Xbox has been a bright spot of sorts for Microsoft, a consistently profitable consumer product from a company that has had few.
He and his colleagues face a difficult few months during which they must persuade the stockmarket that Alstom is a stable, profitable company.
Google is a public and profitable company focused on search services.
Only in 2006 did we actually raise enough money to develop a plan for a profitable, national company, execute that plan and be able to sustain our growth.
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Today, Meetup is a growing, profitable company that is about to celebrate two major milestones: Soon, 100 million people will have RSVP'd to more than 10 million individual Meetups, worldwide.
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Looking beyond the reported accounting results, however, we see that ARBA is not quite as profitable a company as it seems and that its valuation has outgrown its profits by a wide margin.
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"As we move forward with the Chapter 11 process, we are focused on delivering the highest value to our creditors so that we can emerge as a sustainable, profitable company that continues to meet the needs of our customers, " Perez concluded.
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"Separating Rhapsody into its own independent company is a significant first step in making RealNetworks a more focused and profitable company, " said Robert Kimball, president and acting CEO of RealNetworks.
If Johnson can get sales to a point where the company is profitable, a buyer might see worth in conducting new clinical trials in other diseases while running the existing business.
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In Japan the remuneration at the top appears to stay the same whether a company is profitable or not.
So lobbying is definitely worth the cost to the people doing the lobbying: as The Economist notes, it might well be the most profitable thing a company spends money on.
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"If someone finds that customer and figures out a way to solve their headache in a profitable way, that company's going to succeed regardless of economic or industry conditions, " Mr. Cheng says.
But if Kraft is a low-growth company it is also a huge and profitable one.
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