If the technology works, it could get future payouts totaling 20 times its initial investment.
Now, your goal should be to get the business profitable with just the initial investment.
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It has recouped its cash and more than doubled its initial investment in three years.
At 12%, you could double your initial investment every six years (72 divided by 12).
The difference becomes even more dramatic if the initial investment is made at a younger age.
Aside from the initial investment, there are several other barriers to introducing casinos on airplanes.
First, broadcasters have to make the initial investment to get the digital signal going.
Whether or not Jay-Z poured more money into the Nets beyond his initial investment, however, remains unclear.
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For contrast, the same initial investment in the bottom ten stocks would have yielded a flat return.
The opposition Labour group welcomed the initial investment in the latest phase of the Stranraer waterfront regeneration.
This effectively precludes front-end load funds unless the initial investment is large enough to eliminate the load.
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On top of this, the venture capitalist might obtain a public guarantee covering half its initial investment.
Heckman and his fellow researcher estimated that Perry produced a return of 16 percent from the initial investment.
His initial investment in the Nets, by contrast, has more than doubled, boosting his other brands along the way.
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The depletion allowance offers a buffer to that risk to your initial investment.
Buyers are hungry for bankruptcy debt because they often wind up doubling their initial investment, according to Mr. McVity.
This makes the initial investment a waste and further degrades the IT reputation.
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On a weekly basis, Apple's actual compound average gain has been 0.74% still enough to multiply an initial investment 45-fold.
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About a year later I joined the board of his company when we made our initial investment in Twitter.
Your initial investment in your company can be the determining factor of whether your start-up takes off or goes bust.
But once trust is created, the next time I do business with the same person, that initial investment pays off.
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The two moves gave them a 76% profit on their initial investment, while letting them continue to hold 100% ownership.
While Porter got a healthy return on his initial investment in Havre de Grace, Pope is unlikely to do the same.
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That initial investment should provide the island's 14, 000 residents with enough clean electricity to shut down its heavy-oil-powered generator in 2004.
With an LLC structure, entrepreneurs can entice investors with a larger slice of the profits than warranted by their initial investment.
So you add capital to it, if the move gets extended, take that capital off and stay with the initial investment.
Opening a store or another public-facing business like a restaurant can be a lucrative operation, but it requires an initial investment.
Just be prepared to spend a little more on your initial investment.
This "early bird special, " as Myhrvold once referred to it, meant some investors were able to recoup their initial investment more quickly.
The WarpDrive card also helps to minimize hardware requirements, reducing initial investment costs and eliminating points of failure for greater overall system reliability.
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