But it's often tough to generate enough income to collect all the make-ups.
At Toyota Ertmann's unedited online ramblings occasionally make higher-ups uneasy.
Check in: Yes, kids love the pool, the giant chess game, even the putt-putt golf green, but lush landscaping, a location to die for (the motel is maybe 10 steps from the beach), and 54 large guest suites with low-key nautical decor and mini kitchens make the grown-ups giddy too.
Mr. Marquez notes that though a weaker IPO market may make some start-ups more likely to sell to another company, acquirers typically get more aggressive when the public demand for tech companies is strong.
"If you do well early with your season tickets, then you have a good idea of where you're going to be, " says Medlock, who didn't quite match the 2, 300 season-ticket packages sold last year but plans to make it up with walk-ups and by selling to larger groups.
During the game, both teams demonstrated classic mistakes one also sees start-ups make.
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He is also expected to devote resources to several emerging lines of business, including online business software division Google Apps, and to continue to make acquisitions of start-ups.
The best way to challenge this stereotype is to be disruptive with new ways of solving problems and working in businesses that can also achieve success and make for great start-ups.
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The company has decided to concentrate on non-fastening nappies such as pull-ups and will continue to make Huggies-branded wipes and Little Swimmers.
Gutai stood for everything that Japanese totalitarianism had forbidden, urging children to make mischief and encouraging grown-ups to engage in childsplay.
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Start-ups still make up a small minority of German venture-capital deals.
Every start-up needs capital, but where do you go in Silicon Valley if you want capital plus expertise in building start-ups that make software for businesses?
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Big severance packages also make it much harder for start-ups to recruit the professional managers that can take them into the big league.
"Mr. Hollande's positioning toward immigration, especially highly qualified immigration, will definitely make it easier for tech start-ups to recruit and retain bright people from all over the world, " said Patrice Lamothe, CEO of Pearltrees, a company that allows users to organize web links.
Most worrying of all for Detroit is that much of the foreign firms' new capacity is to produce vehicles for the one part of the market where the big three were able to make money in the 1990s: pick-ups, SUVs and the like.
That explains why some start-ups are trying to make money by getting firms to partner with them on direct promotions that reward users for specific actions, such as presenting them with a discount coupon via their phone screen if they check in to a specific location.
But the hobbled financial system will make it hard for cash-hungry start-ups to get financing, so innovation will suffer.
Yes, the run-ups on some industry stocks make them pricey: Canada's Cameco, which does everything from mine uranium to run plants, trades at 68 times trailing earnings.
Yes, the run-ups on some industry stocks make them pricey: Canada's Cameco, which does everything from mine uranium to run plants, trades at 60 times trailing earnings.
Relatively low state and local taxes and cost of living are helping to make New Orleans a magnet for business start-ups and young college graduates what Seattle or Austin were in other recent decades.
While those rates will be eye-watering for most of us, they make more sense knowing that the carrier ups the maximum number of devices on these plans to a more office-friendly 15 to 25, instead of the usual 10.
Many start-ups, he points out, make no profits and therefore have no tax to pay.
If they want to make Darlyne Neff pay more money for her check-ups, her mammograms, they can run on that platform.
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Meanwhile, he can make the case for 12-second gas fill-ups, NASCAR style.
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He needs to attract partners and fresh capital to make his ventures, most of them capital intensive start-ups, bring in expected revenues and reach production targets.
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Optimists hope that the big top-ups that many firms are having to make to their pension funds will be invested in the stockmarket, thereby helping the market to recover.
The key to cover-ups is to leave the evidence alone, make the story do the work.
However, Haynie believes that the entire ecosystem is optimized to make the best use of the talent and technology in start-ups at different stages of development.
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