And what can any potential competitors expect if they front up to the start line?
The third challenge facing Amgen, says Sharer, is new technology that these potential competitors are employing.
Mature economies, which would do well to pay attention to youthful, better-educated potential competitors.
Google is alleged to have manipulated its search results and advertising in order to disadvantage potential competitors.
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He cites online file-sharing firms like Dropbox and Box.net, which are popular with companies, as potential competitors.
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Further, the complexity of wafermaking and a constrained supply of silicon provide high barriers of entry to potential competitors.
You understand how potential customers buy, what terminology they use to describe things your product might solve, and learn about potential competitors.
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Since the Army has a poor record of keeping such programs on track, some potential competitors are considering not bidding at all.
The second factor is that potential competitors to the A320 and the 737 which make use of these new engines are emerging.
Replicating this sales channel would have been immensely expensive to potential competitors.
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If you arrive a bit early, you can watch potential competitors in training, hoping to be selected for their chosen events on the big day.
According to sources Cook and co. are seeking much more flexibility than its potential competitors enjoy and earlier access to new releases.
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While keeping potential competitors at bay, Arnold wants to get LidRock's partners to bear some of its cost of making the CDs and the lids.
Critics see the navigators as potential competitors to insurance brokers, and say that they are effectively federal government employees who should be subject to rigorous screening.
When a handful of banks in a dominant position show exceptionally high returns on capital year after year, it suggests that potential competitors are being kept out.
Lack of tougher regulation is one reason why some potential competitors to Telmex have yet to offer local service, despite having held licences for over a year.
The U.S. patent office appears to have granted Pfizer a patent covering any drug that blocks this enzyme, meaning that it can sue all of its potential competitors.
And he criticised those firms which kept prices high for millions of existing customers while offering cut-price deals online to attract new business and deter potential competitors from setting up.
Of course, feeling like you have enough money to be generous with, or in the case of companies, that you feel you can be generous with your potential competitors, is a nice problem to have.
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And I see sometimes people will spend a huge amount of time on their big business idea and doing tons of market analysis and reading every article they can and cross-referencing 20 different potential competitors.
Moreover, U.S. firms may legitimately wonder why tax-dollars should be expended on supporting potential competitors (for example, in the Soviet space industry) when the federal government declines to help its own companies experiencing traumatic market shifts.
For example, a company like Sinclair Broadcasting, which carries 24 Fox affiliates and 11 CBS affiliates (along with another 57 other stations) could be forced to drastically change their business model as over a third of their business turns former partners in potential competitors.
We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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The pair already knew dozens of owners who would pay for a more sustainable alternative to the traditional product they were using. (Keen to avoid alerting potential competitors, the pair asked me to not be overly specific about their product.) Now they are buying additional machinery and renting more warehouse space to keep up with demand.
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He felt antagonistic towards potential archaeological competitors in Crete, and was particularly crushing of women.
And they found that the firms that had not outsourced their patent filing activities were much better at identifying potential technology competitors (and their weaknesses) early on.
But the lawsuit also highlights the tension between the need for standards that allow devices to talk to each other and the potential for competitors to use those standards to exclude new technology from the market.
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The idea of a Public Value Test is to make a judgment about the value of the service, balanced against the rest of the market and any potential harm to competitors.
Though entrepreneurs can be territorial and sometimes paranoid, the best entrepreneurs view most competitors as potential collaborators and partners.
Unlikely partnerships are typical in patent sales because they allow competitors to neutralize potential infringement litigation.
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