OpenTable ventured across the Atlantic with its Electronic Reservation Book product offering for restaurants in the U.K. in 2004, and followed up by setting shop in Japan and Germany in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
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But eight years after setting up shop it has yet to make a profit.
Smallish United Nations outfits (dealing with climate change, for instance) are setting up shop.
EU, entangle investors in red tape and will deter many from setting up shop in South Africa.
For the lawyers, lobbyists and media folks setting up shop in the area, business has never been better.
Despite the insecurity in certain parts of the country, Mexican entrepreneurs and foreign companies are setting up shop.
There are also the distinct lifestyle advantages of setting up shop in the hurly-burly of real urban districts.
He began distributing independent music for online retailers in the late 1990s, setting up shop with partner Scott Cohen.
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He's evacuated his New Orleans office for now, setting up shop in a generic office block an hour south.
But its universities are not quite so adept at setting up shop abroad.
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Other countries offer bigger investment incentives and make setting up shop far easier.
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Today the company is firmly established at a time when most would-be B2B competitors are still setting up shop.
Since then a steady stream of oenophiles and entrepreneurs have been setting up shop, trying their hand at the craft.
Since setting up shop in a restored wool mill in Burlington, Vt.
Setting up shop, including hiring an assistant or two, contributes to growth.
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Most foreigners have been unimpressed with the slivers on offer, and have decided that the expense of setting up shop cannot be justified.
With his friend Kiyoshi Nishikawa, whose company, NetAge, was also setting up shop as an incubator, Mr Koike dreamed up the Bit Valley Association.
Service businesses make up a significant part of the economy, especially with laid off workers and other corporate refuges setting up shop as consultants.
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In remote and rural provinces, licences may be hard to come by, but demand is so low that it is probably not worth setting up shop.
But after setting up shop in New York this spring, the Russians behind VTB are clearly looking to expand into the U.S. and into emerging Latin America.
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Coinstar was founded in 1991 in Washington State, and has slowly been migrating thru the US setting up shop wherever people congregate on a daily or weekly basis.
To the extent that the industry has concerns, they are mostly about weak laws protecting, say, intellectual property, which could hurt small chip designers now setting up shop.
Spend three months with a founder in his native city, then travel across the Atlantic and spend three months helping them get settled, introducing them around and setting up shop.
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Today, manufacturers and other companies are setting up shop in the places with the best infrastructure to ship their products, move their workers, communicate with the rest of the world.
Thirty-six-year-old Nneka Green-Ingram, a former sailor who has a coveted general vendor license, got sick of setting up shop along a sidewalk on 125th Street in Harlem where she operated for about four years.
For those not able to attend these forums, we will be setting up shop at State and County Fairs across the country to make sure all of your questions are answered and that you are getting the assistance you need.
RVs can be invaluable in emergencies--from high-tailing it out of harms way during a hurricane or tornado to setting up shop in your driveway during a power outage, like many on the East Coast did during the blackout of August 2003.
Either way, it looks if you were thinking of setting up shop online to compete with Yahoo and Napster and Real vending tunes, you should probably no longer be looking as closely at enlisting Loudeye's services as you once might have.
The defense department's PA shop has yet to take credit for setting off this week's cause celebre.
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