And how do you determine who's good at it, and whether they're on the up-and-up?
It takes courage to face the unknown, and get-up-and-go to get up and go.
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Pricing, features and customer service appear to be on the up-and-up when it comes to online retailers.
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Along the way Singh insisted his buyers also be on the up-and-up.
They get to enjoy the burdens of the massive and mostly-beside-the-point Dodd-Frank law and the beefed-up and also mostly-beside-the-point Basil III rules.
He scored on an up-and-under, a pull-up jumper and got to the foul line to get the Knicks back in the game.
This piece, discussing the contrasting characteristics of a representative tech healthcare start-up and a biopharma start-up, and highlighting which each might learn from the other.
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Georgetown, a No. 1 seed just four years from winning a national championship, met Providence, an up-and-coming program under up-and-coming coach Rick Pitino, in the South Regional final.
They recognized and discussed the new programs Start-up Chile and Start-up America, as well as to continue promoting collaboration between universities and through agreements exchanges and joint research programs.
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Success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and that success then generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
Based on over 160 interviews with start-up CEOs and dozens of investors and start-up experts, my new book reveals the six vital decisions that make the difference between start-up success and oblivion.
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Provided that his accomplishments were on the up-and-up.
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Venture capital is one of those rare businesses where past results are indicative of future results, as success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
By the time I was sporting my nylon (get-too-close-to-the-sun-and-it-will-sizzle-up) cap and gown, I realized that English Literature was absolutely the wrong choice for me.
The magazine this year included rankings of 100 up-and-coming listed companies and 100 up-and-coming unlisted companies. (Click here for the Chinese-language details.) Beijing was home to 22 of the 100 listed companies that were ranked, tops among all cites and areas.
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There is fix-as-dilemma, fix-as-stitch-up and fix-as-solution.
Military surveillance aircraft scoured the battlefield -- from the lowest-flying aircraft such as the Army's Hunter and the Marines' Pioneer, to the Predator, to the higher-flying Global Hawk and U-2 -- and on up to the information-gathering satellites.
It's a modern-day Western -- a souped-up and dumbed-down "Rio Bravo, " if you will -- with Schwarzenegger making like John Wayne as border town Sheriff Ray Owens, the last man standing between a runaway bad guy (Mexican drug baron Eduardo Noreiga) and his freedom.
All these people had the get-up-and-go to pull up stakes and come here, a temperament that made them different from their friends and relatives who stayed home.
To complement the speed of the f1.8 lens, the camera's low-light mode automatically adjusts the ISO sensitivity up to ISO 12, 800 to take sharp, full-resolution photos in dim conditions, and an easily accessible built-in pop-up flash and AF illuminator brightens low-lit subjects, reduces red-eye and fills in dark areas.
With incremental execution, the dance's signature flipped-up-and-back flexed-leg-and-foot pose looked less like a kicked up heel than a pretty and preened piece of plumage.
He rose to the top of the oil industry - ending up as treasurer of Enterprise Oil - and gave up a six-figure salary to train as a priest.
Two flexible Sample Decks can add up to eight simultaneous one-shot samples or beat-synced loops to the mix, opening up creative remixing and mash-up possibilities that go far beyond conventional DJing techniques.
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Second seed Caroline Wozniacki came from behind to defeat Bulgarian qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova 3-6 6-3 6-4 and set up a third-round tie with Russia's Maria Kirilenko.
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The Coolpix S640 is focused on speed -- it offers a .7-second boot-up time and "ultra-fast" autofocus, along with a 12.2 megapixel sensor, 5x four-way VR zoom and a 2.7-inch LCD.
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Clever hedge fund managers, who stand to reap huge rewards from their 20% carried interest (in addition to their 2% annual fee for assets under management), gleefully bet against the market on the way down and then for it on the way up and made giga-bucks from the rapid down-and-up.
Moving forward, we must continue to focus on populations with the highest HIV disparities -- including gay men, and African American and Latino communities -- and scale up effective, evidence-based interventions to prevent and treat HIV.
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He personified America's notion of itself as both good-hearted and tough-minded, wised-up and amiable at the same time.
Topping the list is a 2, 560 x 1, 440 display, making this the first Windows Ultrabook to sport such a high-res screen. (We've already seen similar panels on the Chromebook Pixel and the Retina display MacBooks.) Additionally, users receive two years of warranty coverage and a dedicated support line, with near-instant pick-up times and a US-based staff (something customers have been asking for, says Toshiba).
Irish comedian Aisling Bea has won the So You Think You're Funny? competition for up-and-coming stand-up comedians.
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