But the Danes who built a big offshore wind farm in 2002 have a head start.
Toyota and its battery suppliers have a head start on the nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
The Korean game networks already have a head start next door in China.
Like WP7, other phone makers have a head start on Asus in LTE.
These companies will have a head start because they already possess significant infrastructure, such as pipelines and shipping terminals.
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U.S. battery makers acknowledge that Asian companies have a head start but say that they have an advantage when it comes to delivering batteries tailored to their customers' needs.
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This is one reason why Kai-Fu Lee is ramping up Innovation Works now to motivate young entrepreneurs to get in and have a head start before the game is over.
Microsoft may be first to market and have a head start in the gaming and PC markets, but the Leap is 100 times more accurate, according to statements by the company.
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And if that happens, the returns on clean-energy investments will increase even further and the companies that have already invested in such businesses will have a head start over those that have not.
In fact, the Japanese should have a head start: DoCoMo is scheduled to launch 3G mobile services in Tokyo next May, while carriers in Europe and Asia aren't expected to follow suit until the summer of 2002.
And companies like Panasonic and Omek and Optrima and Softkinetic have a head start on Microsoft Kinect in a sense: they are already in talks or working with other companies to use the technology beyond the living room.
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Mr Garner does, at least, seem to have a head start in northern Iraq, where he helped to organise humanitarian aid after Saddam crushed a Kurdish rebellion following the 1991 Gulf war: he has been given a warm welcome there.
White men have a good head start, and that was a time when America was only White men.
Companies like Facebook or Zynga or dating websites have a great head start.
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While Wal-Mart is dominant in the US, rival retailers have got a head start on it in some key emerging markets.
The iPhone and Android have a huge head start when it comes to getting developers to make applications that run on their phones.
They have a three-year head start and a product with cachet among recruiters said to rival the Bloomberg terminal for traders.
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With five months remaining until the general election, Wisconsin political parties have a significant head-start on assembling their campaign machinery.
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French oil firms, such as Total and Elf, have had a head-start in negotiating deals in Iran and Iraq because their government is more friendly to these regimes.
Delegates from many larger states arguing the plan would have given rival Democrats a head start by allowing them to select their nominee well before Republicans.
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While HP claims to have a years-long head start with the technology, Milunovich says it may take that long for HP's new technology to trickle down to mainstream price points.
Even if you end the monopolies, the incumbents have the advantage of a huge head start.
Research in Motion may have had a five-year head start on Apple, but they failed to build out a developer community and made the BlackBerry platform too complex for third-party developers.
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Toshiba once again has a huge head start as they already have put non-recordable drives in their own laptops.
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It will have serious consequences for families whose child will lose a Head Start slot, for workers on the border -- border security agents, for air traffic controllers who will have their hours cut.
We could have reached Stanleyville yesterday we had a day's head start, the roads are for the most part good.
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