Which, speaking of exemplars, brings me to the latest and greatest first-to-do-it-right brand, the iPad.
His idea: to cater less to the do-it-yourself crowd than to the bigger-ticket, do-it-for-me set.
Led by versatile 6-foot-6 point guard Michael Carter-Williams, sharpshooting forward James Southerland, and do-it-all swingman C.
Mr. Sanislo's experience reflects some of the dos and don'ts for would-be do-it-yourself car mechanics.
The point here is that commoditization of a channel initially swings the pendulum toward broad-based, anyone-can-do-it material.
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Last year, San Francisco entrepreneur Jason OHara surveyed dog owners in preparation for opening a do-it-yourself dog-grooming salon.
It's not enough to do it state-by-state, because these predators just move from place to place to place.
On the down side, Slim-Fast landed dead last in satisfaction scores when Consumer Reports recently graded do-it-yourself diet plans.
While firms such as Fidelity and Vanguard are offering more advice, full-service securities firms are reaching out to more do-it-yourselfers.
Or you can take the do-it-yourself route and advertise on one of the many websites that cater to vacation-rental owners.
We will move beyond Do-It-Yourself (DIY) to Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) because collaboration, not competition, is the way of now, and of the future.
Wynalda said he quickly learned in Germany that there is a certain do-whatever-it-takes-to-win attitude that can make teams tougher in big events.
While technology continues to simplify everyday tasks, allowing for a better-equipped do-it-yourself crowd, there are some things that technology cannot entirely replace.
It's easy to see how do-it-yourselfers might overlook this one--what with all the other credits in the code they don't qualify for.
That sums up Christopher Brereton, co-founder of PictureHealing, a Santa Monica-based company with a low-cost do-it-yourself mobile app builder for nonprofits.
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Digital Storm's team of engineers meticulously review every tiny detail to provide customers with the peace of mind an average "do-it-your-self" cannot match.
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With parts and repair costs dropping and cars becoming more complicated, the ratio of DIY to DIFM (do-it-for-me) has been dropping as well.
Even as the economy emerges from the recession, more and more consumers are assuming the do-it-yourself, at-home approach to dining and personal care.
The new Craftsman Bolt-On tool system allows do-it-yourselfers (DIYers) to save space with nine interchangeable attachments that connect to the handheld rechargeable base.
O'Reilly media's three-year-old quarterly magazine, Make, is the manifesto for do-it-yourselfers, urging people to unleash their creativity with a screwdriver and a glue gun.
Google's do-it-alone approach to social networking -- as opposed to one that integrates with other tech companies -- is poised to fail, Zuckerberg said.
Johnson rightly grasps, and admires, what makes America unique: a blend of religious and moral fervor with an optimistic, curious, all- embracing, pioneering, let's-do-it-regardless-of-the-obstacles spirit.
While change was the buzzword of the campaign, these voters say they didn't expect it -- nor do they want it -- at mach speed.
He also appears geeky enough to run Skype, which was founded by two highly tech-savvy European entrepreneurs and retains a do-it-yourself (DIY) culture and reputation.
Within an hour after MyWeb 2.0 went up, a user crossed the music with a Flickr slide show--precisely the kind of do-it-yourself content Yahoo wants.
Distance learning threatens one day to disrupt higher education by reducing the cost of college and by offering the convenience of a stay-at-home, do-it-on-your-own-time education.
None of these legendary entrepreneurs took the standard path to getting ahead in business--they had original ideas, a do-it-yourself spirit, and the desire to succeed.
Amazon tends to be more do-it-yourself, with a tilt towards start-ups.
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One out of every two people who have contacted our firm this year is either a pre-retiree do-it-yourself (DIY) investor or a newly retired DIY investor.
The firm has been seeing double-digit annual sales growth in North America, driven by interest from do-it-yourself chains and insulating commercial buildings, and expects this growth to continue.
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