Instead of building from scratch, Mr Owen made a series of small, high-quality (and pricey) acquisitions.
Now the challenge for me is to remodel that brand, which can be harder than building from scratch.
Of course, rather than building from scratch, hotel companies will be looking for existing properties to take over.
Now it's in the vanguard of a new trend: the REIT that adds to its portfolio by building from scratch.
Of course, startup Netledger had the luxury of building from scratch -- not always an option for large brick-and-mortar companies.
Besides building from scratch, Fortis has scaled up through three acquisitions, including Escorts Heart Institute, a four-hospital chain that Trehan helped to launch.
When Mr. Agarwala emailed Mr. Pardo about the possibility of putting up a prefab house he'd seen on the firm's Facebook page, Mr. Pardo suggested finding land and building from scratch instead.
Though analogue plants are not as vast, building one from scratch would still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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While the competitors are building theirs from scratch, Rocket is out selling.
If you're building a house from scratch, consider insulating it with straw bales or even denim.
For a stadium show, a team starts four days in advance by building the stage from scratch.
"It has been more difficult building a team from scratch than I realized it would be, " Ms. Winfrey said.
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Then there is investment banking, where a lot has been spent in the past few years building a business from scratch.
Many luxury buyers will always associate prefab with low-end, homogeneous slabs and, for them, building a home from scratch is the preferable route.
Due to this lack of capital and access to accredited investors, building a company from scratch in the U.S. at this time is challenging.
Still, "angel investors" of the venture capital world see the carried interest payoff as their reward at the end of years of building a company from scratch.
Improving the atmosphere in an existing stadium is obviously different to building it up from scratch and Keirle says one solution for Old Trafford could be to pump noise via microphones around the ground.
Craig Venter, are taking a more far-out approach: building highly efficient organisms from scratch.
The magazine's crew had two days to finish building the entire space from scratch.
Small operators do not have such advantages, and building a big competitor from scratch would be difficult.
But store distribution is expensive, especially when building a delivery system from scratch.
Building a market position from scratch is a daunting challenge, of course.
Conversions cost the chain at least 20% less than building a new restaurant from scratch, which can take up to 13 months, Mr. Brokl says.
But staff members have also worked on building a personal bicycle from scratch, a baby crib, and an electric vehicle, to name just a few.
First, we are talking about building an infrastructure almost from scratch: electricity, clean water, essential institutions like schools and hospitals, as well as security and law enforcement.
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Building a traditional campus from scratch makes no financial sense.
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And perhaps equally as important is the price, which many estimate is a mere fraction of the cost of building new radio networks from scratch and equipping all officials with new walkie-talkies.
Mr. PICKEREL: It's probably reflective of costs, you know, because for a station to put it in, unless they were building a new station from scratch, to put it in the cost is quite substantial.
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