Apple acquired several companies to construct its mapping technology, as well as using information from third parties, such as navigation system maker Tom Tom NV, before it was ready to boot Google Maps.
As SecondMarket offers liquidity to more private companies, founders and top executives must grapple with how much information to give employees who are also potential sellers and how to construct insider trading rules.
Nonetheless, it is hoped that sufficient high-quality information will have been gathered in the opening months of the science campaign to construct what geophysicists call a geoid.
The quality of the loan approval is wholly dependent on the integrity of the information provided by the borrowers, filtered by the loan officer and used to construct the original electronic loan approval.