That exceedingly high barrier of entry makes the predictions more fun and focused.
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Plus, cloud is lowering the barrier of entry for outsourcing providers, which will in turn multiply their numbers, heightening competition and lowering prices.
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The truth is this is a part-hazing, part-barrier of entry thing.
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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And then the idea of erecting a barrier to entry as it goes.
Record-company executives argue that marketing will remain the barrier to entry for the expected wave of Internet-based challengers.
Also, newcomer BitWasp is an open source anonymous marketplace built to leverage the features of bitcoin and lower the barrier to entry for launching an agorism-based marketplace on Tor or I2P.
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And, the lack of middlemen and regulations greatly reduces the barrier to entry.
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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.
There is a strong case to be made that most credential programs create an unnecessary barrier to entry in many fields, raising the wages of incumbent professionals by creating a false scarcity of workers.
Purely by being so widely used, products such as Windows, with its customer base of 100m people, present a high barrier against competitors' entry.
The option erased an enormous financial barrier to entry for engineer entrepreneurs, led to a wave of innovations and lower costs for consumers, and created fortunes for young outfits such as Qualcomm and Broadcom.
Datamonitor, a New York-based market analysis firm, noted in a report, published March 2001, of an industry shift towards "high-barrier-to-entry generic products, " or specialty generic pharmaceuticals.
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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For instance, half a year of student teaching strikes me as a huge and unnecessary barrier to entry into the teaching profession for many people who work in other fields already.
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.
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.
Kickstarter, digital distribution, lower development costs the barrier to entry for PC is lower than for consoles, and has led to the proliferation of many incredible games, many of which like FTL and Hotline Miami are hardly graphics-intensive beasts.
Now t he New York Times has reported RIM leadership as one of the worst in 2011, because an installed base is no longer the competitive entry barrier Michael Porter waxed about in the early 1980s.
And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.
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