Groupon lost money last quarter and is still trying to prove out its business model.
New accounts are fickle and incremental policy holders often prove out as higher risk.
However, this argument did not hold up or prove out with the introduction of iPods or iPhones.
We agree that companies are typically not going to be recognized or rewarded until the moves prove out.
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Microsoft also wanted to prove out WP7 well before its launch.
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In the end, Plated was able to use the domain to prove out its minimal viable product for a nominal amount of cash, raise capital, and purchase the domain in full.
Programs like Extreme Blue at IBM and UpStart at Best Buy have been making it possible to prove out new business models and unlock entrepreneurial potential, but as this interview suggests, it is an upstream slog.
Perhaps some of the ultra-lean approaches described by leading early-stage VCs like David Grainger (blog here) of Index Ventures and Bruce Booth (blog here) of Atlas will prove out, and introduce at least a ray of optimism into this vital but existentially challenged space.
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Ever willing to host the new social age and prove out its hyper-ferocity and the innovation of everything, the company is trying to help agencies swim in the swirl of traditional and new media and pull together the pieces of digital, social, mobile, and traditional advertising in a cohesive, strategic, compelling brand narrative.
Now, they'll go prove it out over there and then they'll come back over here.
Indeed, the desire to prove them out runs as deep as the need for air and water.
We know this for sure because we have predictive metrics that prove all this out in the real marketplace.
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The investigation is still playing out in Rome, but if the allegations prove true and it turns out that Gabriele, one of the few people who had access to the pope's living quarters, including the pope's desk, lifted the information, then the pope will know with certainty that even with his rarified position, he can't count on personal privacy behind the guarded walls of the Vatican.
In the other were the scientists out to prove there's really no such thing as magic.
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Sarah Kraak, who also works at Berne, set out to prove this point experimentally.
Even the smallest pieces of information may prove crucial in finding out exactly what has happened.
Cole had a point to prove after being left out of Capello's last four starting line-ups and immediately looked lively.
They have got to go out and prove that they are the players Martin Johnson believes they are.
Cleaning product company Method, however, set out to prove that a company could reuse and recycle and still turn a profit.
But with resistance to wind subsidies growing, backers of marine energy now have their work cut out to prove that such largesse is justified.
Carlyle is out to prove these stocks can work for investors.
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Today, she's set out to prove it, delivering a lunchtime speech in Cleveland, an event that attracted hundreds of well-wishers and a crush of international media.
In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart.
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While they eventually did prove successful and figured out a way to monetize, startups copying their business model will not be given the same chances these days.
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The Museum of Natural History's director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, believed northeastern Asia had been the Garden of Eden for mammalian life, and Andrews set out to prove it.
At least that was what Norton set out to prove.
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Ms Dowd said if a complaint had been made, a police officer was duty bound to investigate all lines of inquiry but was not out to prove someone's guilt.
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African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.
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