For struggling first-time entrepreneurs and start-up owners, the pair have had their share of struggles starting their band off while both attending college at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1998.
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In August 2009, their company, Maktoob, became the first Arab tech start-up to be acquired by a Silicon Valley brand, Yahoo.
First Energy, a start-up, has invented a wood-burning stove that consumes less energy and produces less smoke than regular stoves.
Many young people had their first glimpse of a possible new future for themselves, others had their first conversation with an aspiring entrepreneur in another country, and still others visited a company, indeed, a start-up company for the first time.
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Presented by the Manhattan-based start-up VisualArtsTV, WiredArts is billed as the first live-streamed performing-arts festival a claim that's bound to be disputed by some graduate student somewhere researching the paleolithic era of Internet history.
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With regulars like Charlie Adam, Stephen Crainey and Matt Gilks left out, Holloway gave six players their first Premier League start in a line-up which has made only 12 top-flight starts between them this season.
Monday was the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt, the start-up launch conference.
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Lievremont also opted to retain the 5ft 5in wing Marc Andreu - who scored his first try for France against Italy and set up Yannick Jauzion for another on his first Test start - ahead of the more physically imposing Julien Malzieu.
The first company he backed was Odeo, a start-up founded by Evan William that failed.
His start-up was not the first to offer Internet ordering and home delivery.
Market-leading companies are crucial to the success of small businesses because they can provide the first substantial orders for a new product or start-up.
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PCs took bigger and bigger bites out of its market share, Apple backed down and, in 1994, issued its first Mac licence to Power Computing, a start-up.
One of the first business challenges of being entrepreneurs with little start-up capital and momentum was convincing top designers to sell their current fashions at a discounted price.
Winger Shaun Maloney was handed his first competitive start since October against opponents who finished runners-up in Portugal last season.
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Intuit will be first to market with mobile payments that require no start-up or equipment costs, no long-term contracts and no monthly fees.
When a start-up opens for business on the first day, it could sell its product to anyone.
The high prices and the changes in the neighborhood are only going to intensify, predicted Lawrence Coburn, 42, who first moved to the Mission in 1999 to found a start-up and has lived in an 1, 100-foot rental loft there since 2003.
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To extend the Bel-Air circuit to a larger group and possibly profit from it, a start-up called Prima Cinema is working with the studios to roll out a service that will make first-run studio films available the day they hit the big screen.
Ryan Peterson, co-founder at start-up ImportGenius.com, was the first to get the details of how Apple will make this happen.
At the start of this year, first-quarter earnings were expected to be up 2.1%.
They bear down particularly on the first cohorts of workers in the privatised schemes, who shoulder the start-up costs.
Also, start-up field experience is rare, especially as the first hire in a new market.
As an early start-up, you live or die based on that first product.
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Four teams did not have first-round picks, but stepped up in the second round to start filling their needs.
Henman, who had beaten the Thai six times in their last seven games, was in control from the start, breaking to go 4-2 up and winning the first set 6-3.
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