In my experience, few startups get the idea and product perfect right out of the gate.
What you need to do is develop the idea, get the risk out up front, then roll the money in and develop the company.
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Jump on past the break and mash play to get a better idea of what the world's missing out on, and be sure to tell Jeff Bezos "thanks" the next time you bump into him.
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"The idea was to get people out of inner city areas for fresh air, " she said.
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As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.
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The justification for paying such a significant premium is the idea that the acquiring firm will be able to get much more value out of the company than the seller does.
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He hopes to get the idea up and running once he is out.
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Well, you get the idea: Extremely expensive cars are coming out in record numbers, and so are their buyers.
As well as using the rover's X-ray spectrometer on Whitewater Lake and Kirkwood to determine the chemical elements present, and thus get a better idea of their mineralogical composition, the team needs to work out the order and position of the rock layers to tell them something of their relative ages.
The idea that the way to get out of recession is to force rich people to liquidate their investment portfolios in order to pay their taxes is certainly an, umm, interesting one.
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But before you can get your big idea out in front of the masses, you need that idea to transform from a sketch in your notebook into a working website or mobile app.
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The legislation endorsed by three House committees includes language allowing a modest expansion of the co-op experiment, and the idea has broader support in the Senate, where an effort to get a more centrist bill out of the Finance Committee will take on added urgency after Labor Day.
It is always a good idea not to try to get all the juice out of a move.
Yes, you probably will get something out of Social Security, but the idea that it will be enough to support your lifestyle is plainly an illusion.
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"If you're there in the store, the idea is to see the merchandise, touch the merchandise and hopefully get some kind of emotional response out of it, " he said.
The idea is that by pushing carbon dioxide in, you can get more oil out - so making money for the taxpayer.
The idea of extended range WiFi has been around the block before, but amidst all the talk of mass WiMAX deployments comes a swank new idea to get vanilla WiFi out to more people without breaking any laws or relying on expensive hardware upgrades.
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He said: "The idea of opening and manning it with volunteers from the club was to get our presence out into the community and we have certainly achieved that".
The 63-year-old is hoping she and her two grandchildren can get out of the cubicle apartment they share in their Wan Chai neighborhood, but she has no idea how long it will take.
Cringely is floating the idea that sooner or later Apple is going to license the iPod to other manufacturers and get out of the business of selling iPods (you have to scroll down to the bottom of his most recent column).
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The idea is to strip away the complexities of buy one get one free deals and other special offers and find out which supermarket really offers the best value.
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