By the tenth round, however, only 32% of first movers were still trusting.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to realize superior margins, especially for first movers.
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The Aspen Institute has a First Movers Fellowship for exceptional institutional intrapreneurs.
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Other newcomers, meanwhile, watch with envy the name recognition achieved by Egg who was one of the industry's "first movers".
If Symantec executes well, it could capture significant market share by being one of the first movers in this nascent industry.
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As they are the most sophisticated and typically the first movers on new technologies, they are deploying solutions from companies like NextIO first.
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The technology sector has powerful "network effects" that, some say grant outsize advantages to first movers and make it particularly difficult for competitors to break in.
To raise the odds of self-funding, first movers have an advantage because the credit, funding, and equity markets will continue to dry up as the crisis unfolds.
Perfect World was one of the first movers in the Chinese online gaming market, but has since ceded market share to its competitors like NetEase and Giant Interactive.
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Since the shipping fleet takes decades to turn over, energy efficiency first movers will retain a long term advantage, even if other firms belatedly wake up to the advantages.
The flip side of that, added Edge, is that the first movers in real-time compliance will be able to assure big fund managers that they are the safe place to trade.
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In a book called Copycats, Professor Oded Shenkar takes an even more extreme position: first movers have an inherent disadvantage because they have to pave the way for something new.
Rene Schuurman, director and global product manager for connectivity services at Citi, said that Microsoft was one of the first movers and its model has generated a lot of interest among other bank clients.
Since Solar REITs will be a new asset class which I expect to be attractive to income investors, the first listed solar REITs will probably sell for a premium, allowing the first movers to make larger profits for creating the first solar REITs than the organizers of subsequent REITs.
Tracking this newly-created relevance is going to be a big business opportunity, and several outfits are lining up to be first-movers.
Time is short, and the next several years will see first-movers establish dominant positions across a range of clean energy sectors.
We need also to support first-movers on the ground, and to encourage new initiatives and concrete solutions emerging from the civil society.
First, the biggest movers: the Miami Marlins, averaging 27, 300 a game, are drawing the fewest fans for a team opening a new park since the Minnesota Twins moved into the Metrodome in 1982.
There is a paradox surrounding Wales's position in the first-rank of internet movers and shakers, which he freely acknowledges.
The Bank of Scotland report said typical mortgage payments for first-time buyers and home movers account for 20% of disposable earnings in Scotland.
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