They could get a job learning from a plumber or a machinist, or apprenticing to a furniture maker or just sitting in the library with a big stack of books and a notepad.
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Does that make them a watch-maker or a technology company, or both?
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People can use CustomMade in two ways: by requesting a product from a particular maker, or by posting a photo and description and asking for bids from makers.
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The real hope, though, is that a biotechnology company or drug maker will create a vaccine that works for a decade, or, better yet, works against all flu.
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Happily, though, Synaptics says that's something it's able to fine-tune, depending on whether a PC maker wants a firmer keyboard or something a bit softer. (We say the market has enough flat, lifeless Ultrabook keyboards, but that's just us.) In any case, we hope to test a more polished keyboard sometime later -- one that has all those additional touch-sensitive features enabled.
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Kagan says one alternative would be for a carrier or handset maker to pre-populate your phone with a group of apps based on your personal interests.
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Stumble across a hand-blown glass candy dish in Italy or a basket maker in rural Ohio?
Why punish a hapless French cheese-maker or Italian vineyard for the sins of their governments?
Imagine if you were a decision maker from the IOC or EXPO.
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Or a refrigerator maker could work with the app, and offer a 10% discount on a more energy-efficient model than the clinker the app identified.
To qualify for the survey, participants had to be at least 25 years old, and identify themselves as a financial decision maker for his or her household.
Just as minimal diversification makes any investment portfolio more risky, a maker of laundry detergent, cosmetics or soft drinks could be flirting with danger when a high percentage of sales are pushed through a single retailer.
What's attached to sodium is often the magic-maker, yielding a firmer canned bean or a crispier cracker.
When a retailing system is operating at peak efficiency, a delivery truck arriving late or carrying the wrong goods immediately triggers messages to a decision maker who can quickly order more.
Atlanta (CNN) -- Imagine a near future when a single touch on your tablet or smartphone will start your coffee maker, lock your doors, turn on (or off) the lights and open a window.
No more so than Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) or Black Diamond, a leading maker of rock-climbing equipment.
Strolling along the narrow street, you may glimpse a chandelier maker tinkering with a frozen crystal fountain, a cobbler fetching moulds from a shelf, or a bookbinder buried in rows of bookshelves, his head bowed as he works at his desk.
If a display from a certain component maker returns poor UX results, OEMs can use that data to pick a different component or a different supplier entirely.
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Putting a handset, or a computer, in every home is simply not the high-end gadget maker's mission.
If you are an avid gearhead, you crave a bike by a one man shop frame maker who does each as a labor of love, famed artists such as Richard Sachs or Carl Strong, guys whose entire production is 30-100 frames annually, and 100 is a lot in this category.
Much of the billions in this statistic are made up of large systems for large manufacturers, but many maker companies know the value of a laser cutter or laser engraver.
We have forgotten that regardless of the target market, the key decision-maker, whether he or she is a financial adviser, a hospital administrator, a CEO, a mom buying a toy for her child, or the head of a large contractor for the military, is first and foremost a human.
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Amedei, Tuscany's high-end chocolate maker, won't consider creating a special flavor or adding a certain ingredient.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
YaYa might make a nice little trinket for, say, videogame maker Electronic Arts or an onliner such as Yahoo.
The "Nora" will be awarded annually to a female film-maker whose film receives its North American, international or world premiere at the festival.
For any citizen video to achieve maximum impact, it needs to reach the right decision maker: a court, a body of the United Nations, or a mobilizing movement of young voters.
But if you are the decision-maker, or can influence the decision, remember to take a longer-term perspective.
Go into every interview hoping you come home with a purchase order, a conditional purchase letter, or letter of interest from the decision-maker.
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