So, at the age of 16, Thakkar spotted a gap in the market and went big.
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Milken had filled a gap in the market, and he made himself and his company extremely wealthy by doing so.
RockMelt clearly sees a gap in the market that they want to fill with a browser blend of speed and social.
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"I knew there was a gap in the market for large units, super-high-end luxury, " said Mr. Goldstein, who handles the project's sales.
Nevertheless, the company is flourishing because, like many a successful start-up, it has identified, and then plugged, a gap in the market.
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But, he added, changing habits had created a gap in the market.
But an official study in 2010 said payday loans provided a legitimate, useful, service that helped cover a gap in the market.
He recognized a gap in the market, and his wife and partner, Carol Cork, sold her house to help him start a new company that would fill the gap.
Dan Riordan, president of residential development for Turnberry Associates, a Miami-based development company, says he moved to Washington a few years ago after seeing a gap in the market for modern, high-rise luxury condos.
"Why tell the world your positioning, or where you see a gap in the market, " says Ms. Kallman, who so far hasn't used crowdfunding to raise capital for her new business, Boston Harbor Distillery LLC.
The counter shop lives on, seemingly now mainly run in Britain by enterprising Indians and Pakistanis who have found a gap in the market and are every bit as polite as the assistants who used to be behind Sainsbury's marble counters.
The Dubai Islamic Bank believes it is filling a gap in the market by offering women extra privacy in their financial affairs - in some cases secrecy from their husbands - and a more relaxed atmosphere in which they can discuss their needs.
Still, given the potential spending power of business travelers (and the companies that employ them), there is still a relative gap in the market for serious games that address their needs.
Because the company can offer lower price tags, it expects to fill a gap in the business market.
The company got an enormous boost 30 years ago when it spotted a gap in the food market, and started selling fancy convenience foods.
Early in the business, we identified a gap in the fast-growing market for framed artwork: high-quality yet affordable prints perfect for the decorative market.
But when they want to exit and move on to the next investment, firms look around for second and third stage investment, and there's a big gap in the Scottish finance market.
The funded pillar could also go a long way towards filling the gap in the Russian market for long-term financing, which is necessary for infrastructure development.
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Instead, she'd rather spend resources developing a product to fill another gap in the market.
According to Gerber, the interest shown by Kar, Palmer and their peers indicates that Gen Y Capital Partners has tapped into a gap in the start-up accelerator market.
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"Sony is number two in the market and though they are in a strong position to close the gap with Amazon over the holiday season, I expect Amazon to still be the market leader in early 2010, " she says.
Might even foreign firms make a splash in the market with a national Baidu offering, a la Gap jeans did a few months ago?
National Statistician Jil Matheson said that the absence of a UK-wide official private rental index was a "key gap" in data on the housing market.
Other data sources have blamed the lingering employment woes on a gap in the skills needed and those available, geographical constraints tied to the still-difficult housing market and the increase in the number of people dropping out of the workforce, a trend that is tied to an aging population.
But Wang assumed the measures will be spread out over a few years to provide longer-term demand for solar panels and installations, partly in the hope of bridging a gap in global demand and restoring a market balance.
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They say the dynamics of trade with low-wage emerging markets are different: Even some who preach the virtues of free trade suggest China's and India's growing weight and move to more sophisticated products may contribute to sluggish wage increases in the U.S. and a widening gap between job-market winners and losers.
The risk that Italy might not qualify for the single currency straight away partly explains why the market still predicts a gap between Italian and German rates in 1999.
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