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.
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.
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.
If you'd like to see Ralph de la Vega give you his personal take on the company's rosy financials, then head on past the break -- but be warned, at no point does he swim through a pool of money screaming "I'm king of the world!"
Because the HAA harnesses the vast pool of money that is today distributed inefficiently through the tax break for employer-provided care, and then couples it with clever cost-control mechanisms, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation have judged that the HAA will be revenue neutral or even revenue-enhancing within a few years.
Market research firms are touting games and other entertainment applications as a vast untapped money pool.
For the time being, however, fund managers have their sights on managing Japan's huge pool of pension money.
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Members were told that closing the pool would save money and was part of a wider plan for council-run leisure centres.
Traditionally Coors and Anheuser-Busch have used their own pallets, but CHEP is trying to convince them that using its rental pool will save money.
The hybrid model is partly practical, because so many organizations are competing for the same pool of grant money from sources like USAID and the Gates Foundation.
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