Being in denial can lead start-ups over the cliff because if a CEO waits too long to take action, the start-up is likely to run out of money and decide to change strategy only after it is too late to salvage the venture.
Despite the slow sales of battery-powered cars, the head-start they have over fuel-cell cars gives them a definitive advantage in terms of price.
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"But there are a lot of regular start-ups all over New York, " he said.
The stop-start process over the past two years has made companies wary, said Mark Hughes, capital markets partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.
The capital is invested in about 25 start-up companies over 4-5 years.
"To get out the current financial situation, we have to significantly raise the start-up rate over the next 20 to 30 years, " he says.
Publically-held companies with built-out infrastructure have a competitive advantage over the start-ups and therefore get the attention of institutional investors, looking for long-term plays.
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The Dragons - playing at Cardiff City Stadium as their Rodney Parade home pitch was frozen - enjoyed an outstanding start, Tovey thumping over a first-minute penalty from 40m.
Right now, mobile-first enterprise companies are vastly underfunded, while those consumer mobile start ups are vastly over-funded.
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As in the first one-dayer, South Africa delayed taking their batting powerplay until the start of the 45th over - by which time they needed 60 from six overs.
Also, if they back out now, they'll have to start house-hunting all over again.
The dominating style that allowed a start-up to win over its competitors could result in an overly aggressive team dynamic.
I'm hearing that some PR executives argued for more openness from the start but were over-ruled by headquarters in Canada.
The field is wide open for a new generation on the right to start all over again--in the tradition of Ronald Reagan, free men and free markets--speaking to the voters who might still prize a vision of America that was not clearly offered in this campaign.
Ryan Roberts and Yunel Escobar each homered off Sabathia in a four-run first inning Monday night, and Roberts added another longball in the third as the Rays broke the Yankees ace's three-start winning streak with a 5-2 victory over New York.
He steamrolled a one-sided new START agreement over American negotiators who desperately wanted a deal.
That could kick-start a broad debate over what risks we're willing to take every time we swallow pills.
If we repeal ObamaCare, we can start over with common-sense market solutions to lower the cost of health insurance.
YCombinator founder Paul Graham has stated that a healthy early-stage start-up should be growing roughly 7% week-over-week across its key metrics.
For those reasons, Sprint calculates that it has a two-year head start over companies like Verizon, regional carrier MetroPCS and startup LightSquared.
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Both sides deny that the marriage is on the rocks, but start-up delays and squabbles over which equipment to buy suggest otherwise.
Since the start of the sit-in over proposals to outsource 235 campus jobs, the students have said their action has gone from "strength to strength".
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Having seen 10 acquisitions of start-ups in his portfolio over the past year including Mint.com to Intuit and social search service Aardvark to Google Inc.
Contraband installed, I clicked "start, " half-looking over my shoulder and wondering if I was about to be logged as a data thief in some secret FBI file.
Mr. CLELAND: Well, you really can't project the future from looking at the past because when you start doing voice over technology--and we call it techcom, which is a convergence of technology and telecom--you're really changing from a service to an application.
Soon after the re-start the France pack drove the seven-man Namibia pack back over their own line to hand a push-over try to Bonnaire before Chabal, who has become a French folk hero in recent months, exploded into life.
That will not deter investors who believe cloud start-ups have several big advantages over rivals.
It's almost like, oh, I'd rather not do that -- I want to start over again with you.
Bath's European ambitions were effectively dashed 10 minutes after the re-start, when Magne glided over the try line.
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But an industrial building next door has been taken over by Internet start-ups.
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