It instead makes its own content--primarily reality shows like Laguna Beach and Pimp My Ride--and finds itself in the same quandary as other owners of entertainment assets: struggling to find a way of maintaining control of its product when so much of it can be had for nothing on the Internet.
With this method, we gain total control of the product, and we make double, triple or even quadruple the amount of money per each book sold.
But those inefficiencies are working for some companies, and those companies have little need to offer up control of their product to Apple.
Although it is important to bootstrap for as long as possible to maintain control of your product, it is critical to know when you are ready to finance its growth.
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We have lots of opportunities to invest our time, and we will need control of some equity, and control of how this product is strategically maneuvered if we are going to invest.
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The buying decision and access to information about how to make that decision are now controlled by the customer, leaving sellers with control of just the product.
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"Right now, by only operating out of two hubs, it's easy to control the consistency of the product, " he adds.
Besides the lawsuit, investors could easily be scared away by the overall quality of the product and amount of control and influence that they would actually have within the organization.
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In a similar fashion, we control the quality of our product by developing our software and supporting our product in house.
In their search scripts the pair used 600 terms compiled from lists of Scada manufacturers and the names and product numbers of the control systems they sell.
Apple, who is in control of all aspects of their product, is able to incentivize users and mobile carriers to drive usage.
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Apple is hinting its move is all about taking control of the timing of its new product introductions--and the surges of hype--that accompany them.
In the end, my advice is to make sure the right questions are asked about version control, compatibility and longevity of the product in the same form factor.
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For millennia, there have been four basic elements of the relationship between a customer and a business: The product, the buying decision, control of information and word-of-mouth.
On the issue of budget cuts, these are the product of a bipartisan bill, the Budget Control Act that was passed, as you know, in August.
For the MP3 product, we understood that we had to control every aspect of design, development and manufacture given that this would be a product used mainly in remote areas for education.
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We need to remind those who want to soak the rich that revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product has remained relatively stable while spending is out of control.
In humans the vocal tract acts as a filter on the sound from the source, and the "source-filter theory" held that the separate, fine control of the vocal tract to be the product of a long evolution in the development of the subtleties of speech.
"The worst part of this epidemic is that it isn't the product of deadly natural forces raging out of control, but a sophisticated, deliberate marketing campaign, targeted at our children, " Clinton said.
Each firm operates in its own distinctive environment in which compensation formulas have to interact with the patterns of shareholder control, the type of direct regulation in place and the rapid movement in product markets.
The founders, with their tech background, chose to design digital versions of the game in house, and they exercised the sort of quality control they honed on the print product.
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Some of the more daunting aspects of starting a business can be the endless toil of logistics, finding funding, hiring the right people, making the right connections and this all while staying on top of your product development and quality control.
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But ForeScout has continued to evolve over the years and now their primary offering is a Network Access Control product that can address the introduction of new devices into the enterprise, a major trend as employees purchase iPads, Android devices, and iPhones.
In this environment, we will continue to focus on what we can control, striving to grow our revenues ahead of the product of industry growth and inflation, to drive higher profitability and cash generation, while strengthening the financial foundation of the business through further reductions in leverage.
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Weinbaum says it's received and filled 21 orders for its first product, a device that can control the polarization of light (the direction it shoots out).
While Rent the Runway does exhaustive quality control to ensure the absolute perfection of their rental inventory, their product is as much an about self-empowerment as it is about a physical product.
Morosidade is the product of forces largely beyond the judiciary's control.
While such a result is an altogether too common product of U.S.-Soviet arms control efforts, in few areas is the effect likely to be more decisive.
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Earnings, on the other hand, surprised strongly to the upside, at 9 cents per share, compared to estimates of only once cent, based on strong cost control and improving product mix.
"We realized that users want more control over their video experience, " says Matt Spragins, RealNetworks' director of product management for RealPlayer.
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