"We've seen the balance of power shift from the financing sources to the entrepreneur, " says Wendy Phillips, a venture capitalist at the Menlo Park office of Advent International.
If that balance continues to shift down market, Mr Birt, once vilified as a Thatcherite scourge, may yet come to be seen as the last of the old guard.
Take venture capital investment as another indicator of this balance of power tech shift.
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Inner Balance guides users to shift their heart rhythms to the "heart coherence" state.
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Yet Asia's turmoil has done more than merely shift the balance between monopolists and their competitors.
These proposals reflect the desire of supporters' groups to shift the balance of power back in their favour.
Royal Bank will shift the balance of its operations further away from investment banking, and more towards retail and commercial banking.
Now, though, efforts to shift the balance within the GOP have begun.
The deals to come will shift the balance of power between the big groups, and they will matter greatly to the countries affected.
Lower farm incomes and the growing political importance of the countryside lobby have persuaded ministers to shift the balance in favour of growth.
Indeed, some diplomats and foreign-policy wonks fear Ms Rice's move will shift the balance of power inside that cabal towards its most hawkish members.
Both sides are aware that gun-owners' rights are taking shape as a campaign issue that could shift the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
The solution is to shift the balance between fame and talent.
If we could shift the balance for health care providers in that direction, solving problems like the one manifest at HCA would be a lot more possible.
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But a bigger test of Asian governments' resolve to shift the balance of growth from exports towards domestic spending is whether they will allow their exchange rates to rise.
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And it is this shift in balance which has resulted in a silent transition, flipping from an environment which was far more predictable, Newtonian and laminar, to a turbulent and more complex new world.
While both Hillary Clinton and Rice are now hotly debated as presidential contenders, a few other women operating behind the scenes are battling to shift the balance of power in Congress toward their parties.
Prof Robert Modlin, a dermatology and microbiology expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the study raises the possibility that a decrease or increase of one of these two proteins could shift the balance from mild to more serious disease.
In a way, the Getty-sponsored exhibit is an unusual form of a request-for-proposal, as well as an important step toward Govan and his board's actual goal: to shift the balance of art and culture westward to the land of swimming pools and movie stars.
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Lord Richard said that his committee had "discussed and discussed and discussed the primacy of the House of Commons" over the Lords and, while it was thought that "the balance of power would shift", he believed that the primacy of the Lower House would continue.
Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
And can we shift the balance of power, so that people don't feel that their community is out of control, that they have no sense of power over the things that matter to them, and I think that's what the government is determined to address, but not by imposing a solution, but by trying to make something, develop something that actually works locally.
Scandal also contributed to the shift in the balance of power in the House.
But the most significant change was the shift in the balance of power across the Atlantic.
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Any significant shift in that balance could profoundly alter the course of Japan's foreign policy.
Perhaps the most radical difference is the shift in the balance of power from merchant to consumer.
This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.
It has arisen because of a fundamental shift in the balance of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer.
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With the shift in the balance of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer, the customer is now the boss.
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It will be interesting is to watch what happens to our domestic economy when our balance of payments starts to shift dramatically.
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