• Mr Blank has spent the past 34 years in Silicon Valley, getting no fewer than eight start-ups off the ground.

    ECONOMIST: Innovation

  • We here at She Negotiates welcome Maestro Market, which launched today, to the ever growing resources available to women to achieve their dreams, get their start-up off the ground, inspire their employees, negotiate their first salaries (yes, that would be me), launch their books, or reduce the stress caused by all this hyper-achievement.

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  • England got off to a decent start when stand-off Danny McGuire sent Leeds team-mate Smith over for the game's first try on 12 minutes.

    BBC: England 34-12 France

  • Your initial investment in your company can be the determining factor of whether your start-up takes off or goes bust.

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  • And they are hungry for information about how start-ups get off the ground and how they can get financing for them.

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  • The AAIB stated the works on the runway were also not easily visible to the crew at the start of take-off and the captain said that air traffic control provided no additional warnings.

    BBC: Essex

  • That's how we start off -- every time somebody speaks in Congress, the first thing they do, they stand up and all the talking points -- I see Frank Luntz up here sitting in the front.

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  • It is how the far mightier Silicon Valley emerged, with a big defence industry spinning off start-up firms.

    ECONOMIST: A small Welsh airport has become an unlikely tech cluster

  • In the U.S., most moms start off breast-feeding, but only 40% are still doing so at six months and just 20% make it to one year, which is the milestone that the AAP recommends at a minimum.

    CNN: How formula could increase breast-feeding rates

  • But when get tired -- and you will -- when you start to think about taking a day off -- and you will -- I just want you to remember that what we do for the next 22 days will absolutely make the difference between waking up the day after Election Day and wondering, could I have done more, or feeling the promise of four more years.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Wales, having been led out by 50-cap men Phillips and Ryan Jones, made a nervy start from Ireland's kick-off as Lee Byrne's attempted clearance was charged down by Eoin Reddan.

    BBC: Wales 19-13 Ireland

  • As these micro-cap venture capitalists now raise their own funds giving them more ammunition to participate in later financing rounds of a start-up they are siphoning off more investment deals and fund-raising dollars from larger venture firms.

    WSJ: 'Super Angels' Fly In to Aid Start-Ups

  • The would-be smoking guns that start off the Hemingway piece illustrate less liberal bias than the hazards of insta-rebuttal.

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  • It will also allow the start-up to begin profiting off its three million large member base.

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  • And they were happy with third place after mechanical problems affected their start in the medal ride-off.

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  • Icahn thinks that Michael Dell wants take his company back cheaply before that new cloud-computing investments start paying off.

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  • Most projects at Lexicon start off with free-associated Mind Maps large diagrams of words that spread out like dendrites from a central concept.

    NEWYORKER: Famous Names

  • See if you can start work at an off-peak time to avoid rush hour, or explore whether telecommuting may be an option.

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  • They also predicted that the new measure would benefit the rich with substantial savings rather than encourage the less well-off to start saving.

    ECONOMIST: Australia

  • In the Super Bowl a few years ago, he shocked the Colts (and just about everyone else) by doing an onside kick-off to start the second half.

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  • On the field, the club missed out on promotion after bowing out to Cheltenham in the play-off semi-finals despite a superb start to the season which saw them unbeaten in their first 21 games.

    BBC: Gorman's managerial career began at Swindon

  • While the economic news was definitely not positive, it seems that at least the lack of negativity was enough to prompt traders to determine that the sell-off to start the week may have been a bit overdone.

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  • The New York Times, meanwhile, looked at how the insurance industry tries to scare people into buying disability insurance, and argued that the recent downturn in the market could be the start of a bigger sell-off.

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  • Once we turn that corner, the energy-environment trade-off will start to work to our advantage, and possibly to the advantage of the whole world if we can develop low- or no-carbon energy technologies that can compete with cheap fossil fuels.

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  • Dutch midfielder Van der Vaart got Spurs off to a flying start when he finished off a stunning counter-attack before his team were reduced to 10 when Defoe was sent off for the use of a leading arm when jumping with Collins.

    BBC: Harry Redknapp hails battling Tottenham after Villa win

  • After nurturing this voting bloc, the left can see that the millennials and their debt-laden parents will start looking for someone to blame for their off-the-charts joblessness.

    WSJ: Henninger: Meet Generation Jobbed

  • Wal-Mart, for instance, is off to a great start with flat-screen TVs.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Minor, who gave up a season-high six runs in his last start, an 8-3 loss last Sunday at Detroit, and the left-hander got off to rough start against New York.

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  • Jones and half-back partner Dwayne Peel start against the Azzurri after impressing off the bench in the 30-15 win over Scotland, with Hook and Mike Phillips taking their places among the replacements.

    BBC: Jones praise for Wales rival Hook

  • Attempting to build on their reputation, Neo-Geo branched out into the handheld space in 1998 with the Neo-Geo Pocket, but got off to a rocky start, releasing a black-and-white unit first before correcting things just a year later with the Neo-Geo Pocket Color (or NGPC).

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