He paid for college and law school at the University of Colorado by leasing and operating small gold mines in the mountains near Boulder.
Although there are a relatively small number of pedicabs operating in a small part of central London, they have a disproportionate effect on traffic congestion and congregate in pedestrian areas, TfL claims.
"I think any extra regulation will increase costs for everyone and stop innovation on the part of companies already operating on small margins, " said Edward Roche, an analyst at the Concours Group, a Cambridge, Mass.
The challenges that e-commerce companies face in India mean that they are more likely to be successful if operating in small, high-margin niches, and rely on word of mouth for new customers instead of overblown marketing campaigns.
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In addition to operating four small research telescopes at the mesa, the observatory is also in partnership with the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and the Naval Research Lab (NRL) in operating and providing maintenance for the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI).
They're setting up small operating posts within some of these neighborhoods, essentially fortified houses and buildings.
There is also a conference room, a high-tech communications room and a small operating room.
And the perception in LA is that the Dodgers are moving toward operating like a small market franchise.
Bob Scales (Ret.) tells Robert Siegel that the enemy in Iraq has evolved, even as U.S. forces have improved their defenses against irregular attackers operating anonymously in small units and employing suicide and roadside bombs.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
Example: Small businesses operating on a lean budget need employees who can wear many hats.
Piazza has been operating with a fairly small staff that grew in 2011.
The authors compare the profitability of small banks operating in only one local market in two periods, 1982-90 and 1991-2000.
There are small groups operating around the world and they are in contact with one another all the time through mobile phones.
"The longer we wait, the more we're going to spend, " says Houseman, who worked his way up from lineman to chief operating officer of a small utility.
In the current harsh operating environment, a small number of cabin crew, mechanics or catering staff can bring a carrier to its knees within weeks especially if they cannot easily be replaced.
We kick things off with a profile of LiftPort, a commercial space endeavor operating out of a small garage in rural Washington State that has been funding its dreams of space elevators through crowdfunded Kickstarter campaigns.
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The mother owned a small business, operating a clothing company out of what was once their garage.
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One blogger said she was doing something shady by operating a group that helps small companies find venture funding.
The daunting scale this effort entails has kept the number of smaller companies like Vaisala operating in this field fairly small.
Just as with the Linux operating system, which started small with certain workloads, then expanded into large deployments, migrating to the cloud is likely to be an iterative process, with several learning cycles.
Some small businesses change its operating procedures during this time as a result of the heat.
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The impact of increased revenue is itself small due to low operating margins of this segment.
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And those operating in sanctioned countries are a small fraction of those foreign filers.
Your small business is now operating in an age where customers rule.
The Rangers have been able to turn small profits on an operating basis, but once you factor in interest, taxes and depreciation the franchise has regularly posted net losses over the past decade.
They drop a free product in a market where a number of small, entrepreneurial solutions are operating.
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These small operators combine a lean operating ethic and a toolset designed to make a profit on that last bit of juice.
"We think the current crop of seven-inch tablets are going to be DOA, dead on arrival, " said Mr. Jobs, criticizing their small screen, the Android operating system, their price, and lack of applications.
At Sam Ash , the second-biggest guitar retailer in the U.S. and a major Fender dealer, Chief Operating Officer David Ash said he doubted small shops would fold without use of the designs in question.
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