And, by the way, his choice of partners, first Hellman Friedman, founded by my late and most marvelous cousin F.
Several Asian third-party manufacturers are rumored to be tinkering with the software, and these companies might offer key partners a first glimpse.
One top-of-mind concern for LPs is the motivation level of the younger partners at some PE firms, particularly partners whose first fund may have been from a peak market vintage.
The order is reviewed at six-weekly meetings between the partners, the first of which takes place next week.
"We're very pleased by the rapid development time and positive feedback we've seen from our first partners, " said VanDagens.
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Birmingham manager Alex McLeish is expected to meet Yeung and his business partners for the first time next week.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt ensured he had some motivated partners by enlisting first-rate but second-ranked companies--Motorola but not Nokia, T-Mobile but not Verizon.
But Flipboard, a news aggregation app for iPad that is listed among Facebook's first partners, decided not to adopt that particular feature because, according to a spokeswoman, users probably wouldn't want to share so much information.
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The product is FORBES BrandVoice, one of the leading solutions in the hot new world of native advertising, or content marketing, or whatever you want to call it ( SAP was one of our first partners, launching its page in November 2010).
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Two years later the option was exercised, and Robert Noyce and his seven partners had made their first fortunes.
How will SAP make sure that the partners it chooses are first rate?
When they look for partners, they look first among the brethren.
People can buy the gift cards for friends from Facebook.com and choose from brands such as Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora and Target. (These are the first four partners using the service.) Recipients will receive the cards in the mail and can use them at the relevant retailer.
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At first, many partners will regard this strategy with suspicion, which is a reasonable response.
Now, Facebook seems to want to make friends with phone makers, with HTC likely the first of several partners.
Along with the first 14 Challenge partners announced at CGI America in June 2011, the following communities and school districts have now joined the Better Buildings Challenge.
It took place at 4 PM in Iraq, which was 9 AM on the East Coast, so that our government partners there could view it first thing in the morning.
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His XTAG partners understand that football comes first.
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One clue: Jobs began racking up serious mileage on his corporate jet during the company's final quarter of 2007, as he likely finalized deals with distribution partners in Europe and Asia, and perhaps scrutinized the first 3G iPhone handsets to come from his partners' factories.
The United States can bring, as we did last night, unique capabilities in terms of breadth of operations and coordination, working with our coalition partners -- again, the French went in first, as you know, around Benghazi -- but with our coalition partners to focus, again, tightly then on this goal.
It keeps its business practices squeaky clean, in order to be first choice for foreign partners and investors.
One of the principles our company was founded on was the same principle that brought my partners and I together in the first place: faith.
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Federal partners continue to work closely with first responders and firefighters from local, state, and tribal agencies to combat and monitor large wildfires throughout the country.
Rather than open the iPhone to third-party developers at first, it handpicked partners for various features, such as Google for maps and Yahoo for weather and stocks.
It will be the first time as coalition partners that the Conservatives and the Lib Dems will have gone head-to-head in a seat which is winnable for both.
Two months later, GumGum went back to Mark with money raised from Crosscut Ventures and Howard Morgan at First Round and new partners, Glam Media and TMZ.
Inspired by the idea of a big natural foods supermarket that could provide one-stop shopping to the Birkenstock crowd, Mackey hooked up with two partners in 1980 to open the first 10, 000-square-foot Whole Foods Market, also in Austin.
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