One of my roles at Innosight as a matter of fact is to oversee our investment arm, where we provide early-stage investment in companies that have the potential to transform existing markets and create new ones.

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After being selected as the UK potential venue, it competed against the likes of Moscow and Lausanne in Switzerland before facing Milan in the final stage.

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The first late-stage trial of Ranexa's potential appeared in 1999.

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While such an arrangement is similar to a big venture-capital firm or hedge fund with many investors pumping money into a company at a pre-public stage, it has the potential to include many more investors in the pool.

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But he said he believed it was "a matter of pride that Coleraine has reached the stage in its civic evolution when it can with credibility be considered as a potential city".

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After all, the questions relating to the impact from the Libyan uprising, rising oil prices, European debt, a potential slowdown in China, and now the unknowns relating to Japan are many at this stage of the game.

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In the third and last stage of the interview process, says Gallo, a hiring manager asks a potential hire how they performed in a previous job.

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Vanjoki, who was positively charismatic in comparison with other Nokia executives who took to the stage this morning, had been widely considered as a potential new chief executive and appears to have left the company after getting passed over for Elop.

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