Using the Princeton, NJ-based company's services, bankers and businesses can more easily reach a broader base of potential investors, says company co-founder Chris Tyrrell.
Without a broad base of potential customers, the stock market here has tanked even faster than exchanges in the United States.
They say drug gangs are now oversupplied with inventory from the looting, resulting in a violent battle for market share from a finite base of potential customers.
Of course, there is a much larger base of potential online philanthropists at Amazon, which has about 32 million registered users, compared with about seven million at PayPal.
"When pitching for equity underwriting business, it's useful to be able to point to a diverse base of potential buyers," said Guy Moszkowski, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.
With the growing base of potential fans in the North, top-quality black teams appeared in the Northeast and Midwest.
Safaricom had a dominant market share when it launched M-PESA, giving the service a large base of potential customers.
NetIQ bought WebTrends, based in Portland, Ore., for $148.2 million in stock in April 2001 to add products that analyze spending by Web site visitors and enlarge its base of potential customers.
(The companies' support is reflective of more than a high-minded commitment to equal opportunity: the World Health Organization estimates that nearly four per cent of the planet's population is visually impaired, a substantial base of potential customers).
As Republican donor dollars saturate television, radio and newspapers, and multiple mailings arrive at every likely voter's mailbox, the most important lesson will concern Democrats' ability to mobilize their vast, almost untapped base of potential popular support.
