By any normal measure of risk and return, they should insist that new investments produce a faster payback.
Investors are demanding faster payback schedules, better guarantees and even a say in how movies are made and marketed.
"When I started to sell, it was like a tornado," Mr. Zonis recalled, "a fast payback for what I missed out on all of those years.
Venture capital and private equity funds, which control much larger capital pools than crowdfunding, also invest in circular models, however, their requirements for high growth and relatively fast payback horizons can mean this source of finance is limited for circular businesses.
For Mig Halpine, $135 or so a barrel simply means "a faster payback for our solar panels" — three giant jet-black sheets tilted to catch the sun behind the house in Bethany, Conn., that he shares with his wife, Calico Harington, and their children, Miles, 13, and Ella, 11.
A better idea with a faster payback: Get out the caulk.
If companies are going to move a client support center they're going to look for very fast payback.
Nowhere would investment in public infrastructure have a bigger or faster payback than in relief of congestion at the big international airports serving the New York metropolitan region.
All but $0.05/ft2 $0.54/m22) of this difference is explained by when fast-payback measures are installed; load-reduction benefits were insufficient to justify delaying fast-payback measures.
The result: thousands of new businesses, a few of them funded by an aid program that rewards enterprise and requires fast paybacks and matching grants from African governments.
