Investments that are picked up after portfolio companies are up and running can bring a faster payoff.
He spoke in February before an audience of entrepreneurs who were hoping for a much faster payoff.
Valley National's loans credit those payments every 14 days, for a slightly faster payoff.
The prospect of a fast payout activates the brain's limbic system, involved in emotion and reward, brain scanning studies have found; payoffs far in the future mainly stimulate areas involved in rational thought.
Now acquisitions offer the best and fastest payoffs.
Instead Zoltar will sell its patents in an auction, hoping for a faster, simpler and less risky payoff.
In the Internet era, a faster modem or a high-speed cable or D.S.L. connection will almost always have a much higher payoff in overall system performance than a few extra megahertz.
The payoff, say doctors who text, tweet and post, is a better-informed teenager who finds social media a faster and less embarrassing means to have questions asked and answered.
A superior school job network can employ graduates faster, enabling a quicker payoff for your education investment.
Still, because China's government sees science largely as a way to stimulate economic development, it tends to give high priority to research that leads to fast commercial payoffs.
