Software and Web 2.0 companies, by contrast, can be bootstrapped with more modest funds and less overhead.
They can be nimble and run a leaner ship with far less overhead.
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In general, he says, there is less overhead for service-based businesses, which don't require large outlays for equipment and inventory.
And they can offer great prices due to less overhead, along with the convenience of shipping the product right into your home.
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With about 100 headquarters employees and no need to lease fancy offices around the country, Axiom has less overhead than most big law firms.
And small businesses require fewer employees, have less overhead and are able to cut costs more easily than bigger rivals when the economy goes sour.
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But newer companies that venture investors are pouring capital into will do this with fresh business models geared directly toward digital platforms that use less overhead.
Many consumers, in the market for big-ticket electronic items, shop Best Buy stores and then use the information and advice received to make informed on-line purchases at lower prices from retailers with less overhead than Best Buy.
And, when these costs are high, that leaves less money to cover overhead expenses and less to pass into retained earnings for the company, Bierman noted.
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With less wear leveling overhead better performance can be achieved with flash memory.
Less bureaucracy, lower overhead, and faster time to market make the products of accelerators much more appealing to large organizations.
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Miller moved the company to Los Angeles with the hopes of growing his business with lower overhead (less expensive rent, easier to hire talent).
Turns out television news anchors Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings have excellent efficiency ratings, too--with overhead rates of less than 1%.
In the face of all of those daunting challenges, more and more businesses and other types of large organizations are turning to cloud computing to let them handle the surging volumes of data and demanding workloads in a manner that also lets those customers begin spending less on low-value overhead and infrastructure and more on customer-facing growth initiatives.
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So it is with the overhead of homes worth less than their mortgages that are overhanging the market.
For example, in the most recent quarter, overhead expenses amounted to less than 11% of sales, down from roughly 14% in the year-earlier period.
Yet the Hemi, built in low-wage Mexico, costs 5% to 10% less to manufacture than a modern dual overhead cam V8.
Low overhead also means Nomad can charge less for its titles than legacy publishers.
All three are considerably less efficient than the JDRF in fundraising and overhead.
By eliminating insurance middlemen and reducing other administrative overhead, Dr. Forrest charges patients less than their out-of-pocket Medicare expenses.
In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
Admittedly, this is easier to pull off when no one else is aboard, but relocating some storage area to sidewalls (not in overhead spaces) adds a lot of cabin room and makes it less likely passengers will bash their heads on compartments above in that frantic post-landing-must-touch-my-carryon-immediately moment of choreographed (and mystifying) panic.
The combination of being less of an eyesore and producing less electrical smog should, TenneT hopes, soften objections to the construction of new overhead power lines.
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