Additionally, I expect there to be a flight to quality among crowdfunding portals which will kick-off a cycle that allows only the highest quality crowdfunding sites to thrive.

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"If there's too much uncertainty, no one will want to take the first step, " John Paglia, a small-business researcher at Pepperdine University, says of kick-starting the cycle of credit, spending and growth.

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Inferences from difficulty may not only impact immediate deliberation, but may kick off a quicksand cycle that leads people to spend more and more time on a decision that initially seemed rather unimportant.

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Nintendo hopes that the 3DS will help kick-start a new cycle of growth and also remind people that well-crafted games are still worth the money.

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If not, if we simply find ourselves in a bad economic cycle, then we just need to take certain steps to kick-start growth.

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