With a little start-up capital, earnings accelerate to a comfortable level quickly.
These days the second Schumpeter is out of fashion: people assume that little start-ups are creative and big firms are slow and bureaucratic.
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One of the first business challenges of being entrepreneurs with little start-up capital and momentum was convincing top designers to sell their current fashions at a discounted price.
The sleek little start-up, a prototype of the type of company that is supposed to catapult Hong Kong into the information economy, has little in common with its creaking, clanking neighbor save one thing: here too, the air is filled with the smell of money going up in smoke.
Several of the champions of the new economy are firms that were once hailed as plucky little start-ups but have long since grown huge, such as Apple, Google and Facebook. (In August Apple was the world's largest listed company by market capitalisation.) American firms with 5, 000 or more people spend more than twice as much per worker on research and development as those with 100-500.
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With this in mind, the little things start to look more and more important.
Allow me to impose one unrealistic little assumption as we start, to make the numbers and logic a little easier.
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Wu saw little reason to start from zero: Goldwind licensed a design from Jacobs Energie, a German company.
Now it is mighty Microsoft--rather than some little-known start-up--that is counting on Yahoo!
Other molecules that react with light then attach to the phospholipids and, with a little illumination, start firing out electrons like mad.
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Then little-known start-ups like Baidu were just getting off the ground, and the web and mobile communications boom that today ranks the country No. 1 in users of both was still relatively young.
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After -- a little while after that, I think you start to think a little bit about the people who are back on Earth that are most precious to you, and then that little bit of loneliness can kick in.
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Businesses start seeing that consumers are out there with a little more confidence, and they start making investments, which means they start hiring workers.
Children whose mothers speak little or no English start their education at a disadvantage.
"Obviously, it's going to be a little bit overwhelming to start the game with heavy hearts, " Ott said.
Mr. Holding got his start managing Little America, a 60-room motel and gas station on Interstate 80 in Green River, Wyo.
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So we're trying to induce hiring to start a little quicker than it's been -- than has taken place so far.
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Entrepreneurs often start with little capital, relying primarily on revenue streams from customers or clients to hire employees and fund expansion.
Jakes, meanwhile, was a little salty that the start-and-stop nature of the race hurt his chances of winning an IndyCar event for the first time.
And also, if you could also talk about START a little bit and where you think the state of play is on that would be great.
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"I think you're always a little disappointed when you start first and don't finish first, but overall it was a good weekend for us, " he told reporters.
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For starters, the curriculum for classes that are supposed to start in little more than a month has not been made available to parents of prospective students or concerned citizens.
The 51-year-old's start did little to suggest an impressive display was on the cards as he teed off into the bunker on the par-four first before putting for a bogey.
This does take a little planning, so start early.
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He may not get the praise he deserves but, when they had a little blip at the start of last season, some fans were saying they should get rid of him, which is quite ridiculous.
Most businesses start with little capital.
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It will be a little different than the START I verification system, but it is more than adequate to make sure that we know what they are doing and they know what we are doing, and it has been so identified as being adequate by our intelligence community.
The 32 RGB LEDs scattered about the rim and the 33rd punctuating the top of the device put on quite a handy little light show when your tunes start dropping beats, or get a bit more mellow when the tracks get a little more chill.
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We might not be able to do it all, but we can start with a little.
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