Despite the grow-at-all-costs venture environment prevailing today, entrepreneurs would do well to remember that, in the long run, public investors care about profits and reward business models that get more profitable with increased scale.
Though, of course, they already do; when workers die early, the pension funds get more profitable.
Pickups, along with sport utilities, are also the industry's most profitable vehicles, and they get more profitable as they get larger and more luxurious.
He purchased tenements & intimadated tenents in rent-control buildings to move so that he could get more profitable tenents & eventually sell the buildings for a higher price.
"As they cut their expenses, they've gotten more profitable, and they're using that cash first, instead of borrowing," Whitley says.
As Dropbox — the cloud storage company with 500 million users — gets more profitable and inches towards an IPO, the company is slowly adding more features that cater to the lucrative business market.
As petroleum fuels get more expensive, biofuels become more profitable; therefore, biofuel producers can afford to pay more for their feedstock.
The only thing that I could refer to, perhaps anecdotally, is that usually as things get bigger and as things become more profitable to large corporate enterprises, they become more conservative.
Their businesses don't only get more fun, they also become more profitable.
Utilities such as privatised energy companies are at last getting big enough to provide better service and become more profitable.
