Sentence examples for upfront acquisition from inspiring English sources

Some commentators have expressed concern that appraisal litigation may be frivolous, or worse that it may cause lower upfront acquisition prices as bidders keep dry powder in reserve to pay dissenting stockholder post-closing.

One of the major outputs you should track closely is time to payback, which is the number of months it takes to recover your upfront acquisition costs.

And, make sure your product is a "must have", to attract the largest audience and help lower your upfront customer acquisition costs.

UBS Warburg will pay nothing upfront for the acquisition of the trading business, which was once responsible for about 90percentt of Enron's revenue.

In simpler terms, SaaS companies pay customer acquisition costs upfront but generate the benefits later on.

When considering the staffing hours that are saved by using an automated liquid handler, the upfront resource requirements (instrument acquisition and training) can be properly accounted for.

That does not mean they are not good business models – with subscription businesses, the upfront investment in customer acquisition is relatively high, but the return from the customer takes a little bit longer than the old software licensing model (lifetime value is spread across the life of contract with SaaS, not upfront).

"Nestivity's software was exciting to us because it adds both organization and reach to social conversations," said Upfront's Mark Suster in the acquisition release.

TBS welcomed "Cougar Town," its new star acquisition, Wednesday morning at the TNT/TBS 2012 Upfront presentation.

As a percent of total acquisition consideration, that may result in more cash upfront to the owner, which may be something attractive to that business owner.

Onyx obtained Kyprolis through one of its own acquisition, that of privately held Proteolix, in 2009 for $276 million upfront, with up to $575 million more dependent upon achievement of various milestones.