Market research firms are touting games and other entertainment applications as a vast untapped money pool.
Three-quarters of the money in the pool is divided equally among all 30 clubs.
Users of the service pool money with like-minded investors to make commercial real estate investments that are otherwise difficult to access.
Crowdfunding is exactly like it sounds: a collective effort from any number of people to network and pool money and other resources together to support a common effort.
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Venture capital firms gather money from individuals, often wealthy individuals, and use this large pool of money to invest in a variety of companies whose goal is often to go public.
That statute says that a company that sells securities to the public and then turns around and invests that money in a pool of securities is a mutual fund and subject to a comprehensive mutual fund regulatory scheme.
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In a 401(k) world, investment risk is no longer borne by the employer, who has trained, professional money managers at his disposal to diversify, create a huge portfolio and do actuarial scenarios to see if the money in the pool will last a long time.
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Goodell alleged that Fujita pledged a "particularly large sum of money" to the bounty pool during the 2009 postseason, with the reward money going to any player who could knock an opponent out of the game.
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For investors, there's the chance to pool their money to enter some high-performance funds.
General managers would be given a pool of money to sign their picks to contracts.
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"People get to see a concert, they get to pool their money and do something big, " says Schervish.
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Some angel investors pool their money as a group so they can invest larger amounts usually a few million dollars.
Their argument is that there is significantly larger pool of money available from return seeking investors than from not for-profits donors.
In the regular admissions pool however, financial aid offers can be affected as the total pool of money available gets depleted.
In the latest negotiations, NFL owners have agreed in principle to expand the pool of money that players get a cut from.
It allows lottery-style games, like the state lottery itself, in which prizes come from the pool of money the other players have lost.
As with health insurance rates, the FDIC's premiums change if it has to settle claims or if it insures a larger pool of money.
Funds, therefore, are created as a means to aggregate these individual sums of money into a single pool which can be managed efficiently and effectively.
Market-beating performance gets much harder as the pool of money expands.
The basic premise of mutual funds is straightforward: Investors pool their money, and the fund invests in stocks, bonds, government securities or a combination of such assets.
He says that staff work under difficult conditions and that last Christmas some had to pool their money together to buy cake and cookies for the elderly residents.
If oil and gas revenue begins to decline, economists say one big problem will be how to sort out all the competing claims for the limited pool of money.
But, for the avoidance of doubt, eurozone members have not merged their financial resources to provide a single pool of money to rescue banks, or to insure depositors against losses.
His return to jail centers on a pool of money that appears to have been donated to Zimmerman through a website he set up to help with a legal defense fund.
The TARP, initially positioned as a pool of money to purchase toxic mortgage assets from banks, was ultimately used to inject capital directly into financial institutions in return for preferred equity stakes.
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And they each want to buy a Nook tablet soon, although there is a small dispute: Ryan would like to pool his money with his brother and buy a more expensive, color one.
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What, then, you may ask, is the Social Security Trust Fund, the pool of money that people say will dry up and make it impossible for anyone to receive their Social Security payments?
He looks at an industry as a defined pool of money, with the goal of strategy being to figure out how to get the biggest share of that money and keep others from getting it.
As more small investors pool their money, knowledge and connections to dig up more and better deals, at least 170 angel groups now do business in the U.S., says Sohl, compared with a handful five years ago.
Bring substantially more money into the Medicare pool via the premium payments ponied up by all the additional people in the system who are younger, healthier and, therefore, far less likely to call upon the system to pay for expensive illnesses.
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