Startups are facing the same challenge of staying afloat long enough to begin to turn a profit and without access to accredited investors, which represents roughly 1 percent of the U.S. population, loans from banks may be the only option.
Gopal Dabade of All India Drug Action Network, an India-based non-profit group that works for access to essential medicines, said the ruling will allow Indian generic manufacturers to continue to supply Indians and consumers in other developing countries with cheap medicines.
The House of Lords code of conduct says peers cannot engage in "paid advocacy" - using their access to Parliament to make a profit.
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One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
The rising costs of journal subscriptions have led many scientists around the world to question the business models of the publishers, which can make profit margins of more than 35% through selling access to the results of publicly-funded research.
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Hackers also profit by secretly taking control of your computer and selling access to your computer to companies that use it to operate their businesses at a discount to legitimate so-called cloud-services providers.
Specifically, Aimia is able to identify markets with profit potential, find companies to acquire that give Aimia access to those opportunities, and acquire and integrate those companies in a way that produces cost savings and retains key people.
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Patents of genetic material make it particularly difficult for not-for-profit organizations, which cannot pay the royalties they would need to access the material.
Instead of selling software to make a profit, Google makes money by selling advertising to firms that want access to those who use its free products.
So my greatest recommendation is that people should not be afraid to ask for help from either a family member or ask that family member to access help from a public source or a non-profit agency.
Before the smartphone boom, many carriers sold data access on an unlimited basis, making it hard for them to profit.
And with less access to capital, less credibility in the money markets, and less profit to reinvest, that investment programme would be cut back.
In fact, since men are not particularly attracted to powerful mates, high-status women do not profit from their rank, at least not in so far as it affects their access to men.
And, it says, almost half of the Bank's lending to countries with access to capital markets in the 1990s went to activities from which the private sector can profit.
The report raised questions about whether the access several high-profile members of Congress had to inside information on legislation helped them profit from financial transactions involving companies that were affected.
Capping pricing structures, hindering profit and business expansion will limit the capacity for operators to expand coverage and improve services, making broadband access cost-prohibitive for millions of people.
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In Europe, for example, where regulators have an even heavier hand on the special access scales, efforts to micro-manage pricing have left incumbent providers unable to make a profit or develop any long-term strategy.
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