The average among them will start companies of their own and mostly fail.
Beyond these current storage products by established storage companies there is a wave of start-up companies working to enhance flash memory performance, increase its endurance and lower its costs.
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The companies of Silicon Valley often start life with the idea of changing the world, but as they mature they must answer to their employees and investors, just like every other company.
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Mr Schneier predicts that insurance companies will start to specify what kinds of computer equipment companies should use, or charge lower premiums to insure more secure operating systems or hardware.
"Tracking down my previous references proved problematic since many of the companies were Internet start-ups that have gone out of business, " Spenser says.
Companies see dozens of start-ups each year taking aim at them.
The diversity and range of opportunities has attracted an increasing number of start-up companies that have targeted one or more of these applications.
Government policies that restrict the ability of individuals and companies to save, by definition, reduce the ability of those people and companies to start those businesses and to expand them.
Promoting this kind of innovation, where companies start to look more like puzzles than pyramids, has to become part of feminism's new agenda.
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Her firm, Forerunner Ventures, invests in next-generation e-commerce start-ups, and in a reversal of the traditional retail model, many of her new companies start online and eventually move to brick and mortar.
So, 2013 will be the year when financial companies start getting real value out of social media.
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Companies need to start sharing more of their revenue with their employees.
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Over time, as the market confidence is restored, then what we can do is start getting rid of some of these assets, some of the stock the taxpayers now have in some of these companies start being worth more, we sell them off to private parties, and taxpayers can recoup that money.
For those that are unfamiliar with IPOs and in particular lock-up expiration: as part of early standard start-up procedures, companies will typically issue millions of shares to (among others) employees, venture capitalists and mezzanine investors.
Some of the start-up engine companies say they could ultimately get orders from makers of power generators or boat engines.
Good governance is no longer just for companies that are regulated by the likes of the SEC and FINRA. Companies would do well to start laying the groundwork for successful social strategies, or else risk suffering any of the numerous ill effects on brand reputation.
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And thanks to a clutch of cleantech start-up companies like Gotham 360 and well-established mega-companies like Kimberly Clark bringing the benefits of CHP to large hospitals, the still better news is that the economic and energy efficiency results for those hospitals that have taken the plunge on CHP have been tremendous virtually across the board.
It may however require each of us to start pushing back on insurance companies, state regulators, and members of Congress who (explicitly or implicitly) foster, encourage and allow this kind of confusion and complexity to characterize our health care plans.
Since the start of 2005 virgin companies have accounted for 59% of the new-issue business, retreads of leveraged buyouts the remainder.
Companies like this could be the start of a much larger trend.
Internet search-and-advertising company to start or invest in companies of their own.
Readers, when do you think the balance of men and women at the top ranks of major companies will start to even out?
Over the past year a trickle of Google alums like Lepe have left the Mountain View, California Internet search-and-advertising company to start or invest in companies of their own.
As industrial profits increase, shares of Chinese companies should start to appreciate, helping out patient portfolio investors who have been hard pressed for gains in broad China funds like FXI.
It is a sign of maturity when companies start to understand, as the banking industry did over time with ATM machines, that they should charge less for using services that cost less to provide.
Over the past year a trickle of Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) alums like Lepe have left the Mountain View, California Internet search-and-advertising company to start or invest in companies of their own.
In the meantime, the integration of the two companies may offer a competitive boost to start-ups living in the shadow of Microsoft and Yahoo!
Underlying these whimsical touches is a seriousness of purpose that one encounters in small start-ups but only rarely in companies the size of YouTube (more than seven hundred employees and growing fast, to judge by all the red balloons).
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