Each of these companies has a created an operating system that people invest their time and money in, systems that value the sunk cost in both time and money and penalize the long slog of moving to another digital planet.

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At the same time, deflation eats into the value of homes, increases the cost of investment credit for corporations, reduces profits and even wage packets.

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The sooner the cost of the asset can be recouped, given the time value of money, the greater effect it has with respect to the amount of tax paid by the owner.

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Most of these business assets cost time and money to build, and bring in little value in the short-term.

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Marc says most companies are focused on the cost-per-acquisition (CPA) of a customer instead of the life-time-value (LTV) of customers.

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As cloud computing surges into the mainstream of business-technology strategies and deployments, plenty of questions are still swirling around regarding security, time to value, public versus private, lock-in, cost, and more.

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