Real-time data sets are required to make sense of the business model.
Much as LinkedIn's long-term model makes sense, its near-term success stems from a manic dedication to selling services to people who buy talent for a living.
Ethics aside, that business model makes sense because Facebook can make a lot more money in the long run by selling ads over and over again than it could be selling names just once.
Is it any wonder that investors (and managements) all crave some kind of macro and micro stability, where spreadsheets made some sense and you could model industries and their major constituents with comfort and accuracy?
Done properly, the business model makes sense.
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What model makes sense for your company?
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Considering that the best people to write gaming guides are often those with huge amounts of time on their hands to explore every nook, cranny, and minor character in a game like Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, the model makes sense.
If the value is in the service rather than the infrastructure, then this model can make sense.
The instant demo model also makes sense for big budget commercial software -- imagine if you could try a new video editing suite online, for instance.
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The Internet itself is not being expanded very rapidly because there is no longer a business model that makes sense for those who provide the Internet backbone.
"Any time you have a significant number of your nationals moving abroad and coming back and forth as they do in the Dominican Republic or retiring there, it makes sense to have a new model or a new level of representation, which I think will be good for over there and over here, " said State.
Our business model, in a sense, is we can do well in business by doing good for people.
Kellogg, for instance, was a model of midwestern common sense.
Still, while this pay-as-you-weigh method may prove effective for a small commuter operation like Samoa Air, some analysts question whether the model would make business sense for large commercial carriers.
Underlying much of the discussion was the sense that the current neoliberal economic model which privileges unbridled competition between nations, companies and peoples is not a sustainable path for the future.
Some sort of master data model is needed to make sense of all of this data.
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Does a Hulu model for Magazines make more sense than a iTunes or Netflix one?
It would make sense to continue preparing for the business model transition from DVDs to streaming video.
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More so, he is offering a model of how to make sense of the impact of luck and serendipity.
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It went through similar ructions beginning roughly a decade ago, and a new model has evolved that makes sense for authors too.
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Muhl is an in-demand fashion model known for her eccentric sense of style, who (as revealed in this interview) wrote a 700-page novel when she was 11.
The Prima model "makes very little sense as it risks millions to make pennies" by exposing movies to the possibility of piracy early on, Mr. Fithian says.
You see, even a company that breaks the norm by installing speedometers the size of Shaq's face is stuck on an antiquated lifecycle model that no longer makes sense.
Note, when Sonja first developed the TSA Performance Model the results did not make sense.
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So it only makes sense that Microsoft would adapt a software distribution model that originally appeared on mobile devices: an app store.
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If I can understand how the company makes money and the future revenues are easy to model, then I have a sense of the cash flows that would support the dividend payout.
Almost before the mayor had time to utter "I didn't know you cared Toby, " Lord Harris added that this was cohabitation based on the "French presidential model rather than in the DSS sense".
For example, Rachel Lee Hovnanian's piece "LA Lights, " part of a series of full-length mirrors with a pointed sense of humor, has appeared in a model apartment used to show off the units' amenities.
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