More of us can be inventors and salesmen, and we need to risk less and less as we test demand, raise funds, and manufacture products.
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Fare analysts say airlines test demand route by route, starting international prices high and then offering some seats at low prices, for example, four or five months before departure.
" Ronovech goes on to explain that, despite the semiconductor industry being out of favor due to concerns about the global economic slowdown, he expects that "even a modest continuation of global economic recovery should drive growth in demand for semiconductor test equipment in 2011.
If he must take the test, you are going to demand the results, and demand he not play if the test shows an abnormality.
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Entrepreneurs can test real demand, and collect startup capital, for hypothetical products through their own custom sites without giving up customer data and high fees to Kickstarter or Indiegogo.
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On the supply side, entrepreneurs are able to increasingly locate crowd-sourced funding through platforms like IndieGoGo, to iterate through social product development on platforms like Quirky, and to test market demand, pricing and take pre-orders to build a demand pipeline via platforms like Kickstarter.
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The mild winter sets the sector up for a key test of underlying demand.
This Nokia-made phone, which goes on sale Sunday, will be a key test of consumer demand for Windows Phone devices.
Of course, other things seldom stay constant in the real world, so the law of demand is sometimes difficult to test.
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Autocar India's Sorabjee, who recently took a Nano for a test drive, expects demand to be split evenly between urban and rural buyers.
If so, then the NFL should provide, and the collective bargaining agreements of the future should demand, that the results of that test should be disclosed to the player.
Union leaders also rejected the perfectly reasonable demand from the city of Chicago that standardized test scores play a role in evaluating teacher performance.
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Which reminds me: Can we, as the GOP base, demand an IQ exam as well as a test of basic knowledge from our congressional and presidential candidates?
But test leaks occur because there is demand for an advantage from students' parents, said Shim Jai-ok, executive director of the Korean-American Educational Commission in Seoul, which administers Fulbright grants and a number of standardized exams, but not the SAT tests.
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Bob Liodice, who heads the ANA, says it is putting Canoe together with a few ANA member companies to test the interactive TV and video-on-demand space.
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The acid test for Spanish product will be to see how that demand holds up.
The handover of Afghan detainees at the facility was a long-standing demand by Mr. Karzai, who portrayed it as a key test of Afghan sovereignty.
"The test...allows us to explore how consumers are using internet video on demand, " said David Bishop, president of MGM Home Entertainment Group.
Some colleges reportedly plan to end a English test that has been part of their entrance process, a move that would seemingly reduce demand for English-language study.
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Advertisers and agencies in turn are getting used to buying media through demand-side platforms and exchanges where they have access to nearly unlimited amounts of inventory, where they can test cheaply and quickly, and scale greatly.
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The demands of the Indian Premier League - or at least the demand of the players to make some money in the IPL - has added to the feeling that this first Test is being played at least a week too early.
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