This makes exclusive rebate contracts a potentially significant barrier to entry for new competitors.
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On the other hand, F2P represents a much lower barrier to entry for new players.
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Moreover, NTT's technical demands acted as a barrier to entry for rivals both domestic and foreign.
As string theory involves intricate mathematics, the barrier to entry into its community is high.
Even for challengers with deep-pocketed governments to support them, that is quite some barrier to entry.
By creating a barrier to entry they helped create a monopoly-like position in portable music.
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The smart watch is a low-barrier to entry peripheral that start-ups such as Pebble already have covered.
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For many would-be competitors, being able to port effectively is a major barrier to entry in this market.
Record-company executives argue that marketing will remain the barrier to entry for the expected wave of Internet-based challengers.
And, the lack of middlemen and regulations greatly reduces the barrier to entry.
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And then the idea of erecting a barrier to entry as it goes.
Another barrier to entry and innovation for alternative credit ratings models is simply the scarcity of data--in particular, identified defaults.
He created a two-pronged barrier to entry, as he explains in his autobiography, Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy.
Mr Gates believed this could weaken the applications barrier to entry by usurping Windows as the main platform for software developers.
However, it is not structurally reducing the barrier to entry around coding.
And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.
This was now the decisive factor in our two-fold barrier to entry.
"There's a greater barrier to entry for the black hats, " Storms said.
So the barrier to entry is quite low and so, yes, there's a pipeline issue, but you know, no, that's not the only issue.
Pinterest, by contrast, provides no barrier to entry for anyone looking to bookmark, share and comment on images and ideas from around the Web.
And that efficiency is a barrier to entry to new competitors.
This applications barrier to entry gives Microsoft its enduring monopoly power.
Keep in mind that the low barrier to entry to have a blog, build an audience and what-not allows really anyone to create a strong online brand.
As a business, making cupcakes has a relatively low barrier to entry and the field has become saturated with competitors, including individual bakeries, chains and grocery stores.
Because of the MMO aspect, your fights actually matter in the grand scope of the world, and as a free-to-play title, the barrier to entry is exceptionally low.
Secondly, the relatively small cost will likely lower the barrier to entry for advanced microscopy and make field diagnosis an easier and more viable option in places like Africa.
The low barrier to entry of existing crowdfunding platforms, such as RocketHub, has encouraged many individuals to attempt crowdfunding campaigns, without risking the negative financial impact of an unsuccessful raise.
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This is a lesson that games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity should take heed of, as ever more difficult levels can be a barrier to entry for younger players.
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And because the barrier to entry for online coupons is lower, they can be bought by regional or medium-sized companies that may not be able to get into the weekly circulars.
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Technology has done to the marketing of recorded music what it did a decade ago to the publishing of the printed word--lowered the barrier to entry down to just about zero.
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