Moreover, there are other elements of his company which are notoriously hard to scale, such as brand experience and customer service.
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So I think budget line items and names of things scale easily, but principles scale hard.
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Disappointment at this scale is hard to swallow, but four times?
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All I have to go on at present is forum reports and individual conversations with iPhone users, so it is hard to tell the scale of the problem.
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Despite obvious enormous advantages to customers, evolutionary gains in productivity are hard to achieve at scale with such barriers (disclosure: the author was part of the team that initially brought Virtuwatt to market).
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Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.
From that vantage point, it can be hard to remember the human scale.
It is hard to really grasp the scale of the oil market.
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Train production, by contrast, has until recently been largely national, which made it hard for manufacturers to achieve scale or make widely marketable goods.
It is not hard to identify economies of scale and operational synergies when electronics operations are merged, because they rely on similar skills, technologies, customers and suppliers.
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The unpredictable positive feedback effect of being first, achieving meteorically rapid scale makes picking winners hard.
Clearly the survival of the mill would require large-scale investment which may be hard to find.
When times improve, small and medium-scale manufacturers will find it hard to restart without access to Chinese money.
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But the scale of response makes it hard for office-holders to tweet themselves.
ADP, because of its scale and efficiency, is hard to compete against.
Identifying its powerful customer base, immense scale, and access to a hard-to-reach audience, the panelists agreed: Facebook is here to stay, for now.
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As close as this election is slated to be, there could be a ripple effect that is hard to predict, but potentially massive in scale.
California Rep. Mike Thompson told CNN on Tuesday that a ban on high-capacity magazines could garner Republican support, but a full-scale assault weapon ban would be hard to get passed in the GOP-controlled House.
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"If enough of us from the outside work hard to develop initiatives on the kind of scale that can bring this about then - as we've seen in the past - government follows fast, " he said.
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These range from meditative essays on the scale of whales' lives through to hard scientific reporting.
Such hurdles will make the pace, and perhaps scale, of America's boom hard to equal.
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Debt reduction is very difficult without economic growth, and the scale of Europe's austerity makes it hard to see where that growth will come from.
Cafes in San Francisco, Miami and Boston, and a second in New York are opening within the next 12 months and locally run competitors will be hard-pressed to compete with Stelios' economies of scale.
In recent months, though, Georgia and Azerbaijan have faced another serious challenge: deepening chaos, and declining Russian authority, on the northern side of the Caucasus mountains, on a scale which could wreck their own fragile and hard-won stability.
The scale of human trafficking in the US is hard to gauge, but the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, operated by Polaris Project since December 2007, has received more than 57, 000 calls from every state in the union.
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The scale of Citigroup's funds under management was hard to reconcile with their performance.
When other companies were forced to scale back costs during the recession that hit golf hard starting in 2008, TaylorMade, backed by its German parent, Adidas Group, turned up the heat.
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That, however, hardly precludes Intel from getting a big piece of Apple's business, particularly in notebook computers, where it's hard to imagine Apple ever reaching the kinds of economies of scale it will need to keep up.
Competing in the search advertising market means getting search volume, and Heiner contends that the way Google does business makes it hard for anyone to get to the kind of economy of scale to make a search endeavor to work.
Japanese renewables firms' foreign rivals know it would be hard to object to such subsidies without seeming callous, given the scale of Japan's post-quake crisis.
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