Ahead of the release of the averaged January-February activity data on 9-10 March, we maintain our view of a continued slowdown in demand and activity at the start of the year before bottoming in H1.
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To have transparency, to understand the rules by which to put structure to that activity, we need START and we need it badly.
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Since May 2012, I have been investigating why some cities and regions have more start-up activity than others.
By making the selection process a transparent community activity, Turner said, START.ac has created a unique feedback cycle.
John Haltiwanger, an economist at the University of Maryland, says he's skeptical of the GEM report given that it claims such a dramatic boost in start-up activity.
An increase in start-up activity is a good sign for the overall national economy because it will lead to more employment opportunities in the near future, says Donna Kelley, the report's lead author and an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.
The flurry of activity is intended to jump-start the stalled Israel-Palestinian peace process.
This year marks the true start of all of this activity, but this growth spurt will be around for at least two to three years or longer.
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The researchers analysed entrepreneurial activity by measuring the number of new business start-ups and self-employment rates.
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In the movie, high schoolers start small businesses for an extracurricular activity called Future Enterprisers.
We do ourselves a disservice when we stop listening to one another and start accusing one another of nefarious activity solely based upon our gender.
As of last week, fewer than a fifth of the 34 developed countries reported more activity, down from a third at the start of the year.
Once we were back from our 12 day excursion we hit the ground running excited to start a new way of teaching physical activity to our students.
It turns out it's all about what economists call "agglomeration" - linking businesses and others kinds of economic activity together in such a way that they can start to punch above their weight.
Stocks moved lower to start the week following news that factory activity had grown more slowly in March, while a related indicator released on Wednesday pointed to a similar slowdown in the services sector.
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That prompted Hughes and his team to start developing a compound that would block the activity of DPP-4.
This means that credit conditions should start to get better and support a faster activity recovery in the second half.
The next step then will be to start plugging new sources of data into the activity streams to raise awareness in all sorts of ways.
However, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders have suggested a sluggish start to the year in terms of mortgage activity, which could feed through to house prices later.
Using activity streams inside your business seems like a great way to start.
"Lending activity has recovered in recent months, when compared to the start of the year, as buyers and sellers tentatively return to the market, " said Adrian Coles, of the Building Societies Association (BSA).
If they then start to actually use that investment in some productive way that pays wages and earns a profit, then they start to generate additional value-added from that activity, and that value-added continues to be created as long as they keep doing that productivev activity.
They believe that 2013 will actually start to get back to more level rates of foreclosure activity.
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All the activity moved markets up Monday, but analysts are busy at the start of the week forecasting market movement after the Fed stops its QE2 bond-buying program in just over a fortnight.
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To show this, start with a relatively neutral definition of job: any routine activity for which we earn income.
Once you have people sharing knowledge and collaborating, this activity generates its own data, and from a higher level you can start observing patterns.
Companies as diverse as activity streaming platform SocialCast (recently bought by VMWare), IBM, start-ups like Huddle, Box, behemoth SAP, Microsoft, Moxie, Jive, CISCO, Nortel, old platforms like SocialText, old web platforms like Broadvision, Alfresco from open source, are competing for attention in this space.
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"If no crime has been committed, no activity has come up on the radar screen, we can't arbitrarily start rounding people up, " he said.
Unsurprisingly, the spread of entrepreneurial activity followed the same pattern as the spread of personality: there were more start-ups in those states whose residents were more entrepreneurial.
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