This small but fast-growing group may in any event be a force for conservatism rather than change.
In the weird science department, scientists at UC Berkeley developed a small, fast robotic cockroach that's made from cardboard.
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But then MRI scans spotted a small, fast-growing lesion inside his brain.
At stake is the small but fast growing market for the slimmest, sexiest PCs--machines less than 1 inch thick and weighing less than 3 pounds.
The hope is that such vehicles could patrol the coastline, or serve as a first defense against pirates, and other such small, fast-moving seafaring dangers.
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But Offerdahl, 46, has specialized in running small, fast-growing tech firms.
Siminoff's small but fast-growing firm, Efficient Frontier, uses dauntingly complex calculations to help its clients get a better return on the ads they buy on Web search engines.
Stand up, Caleb, so we can see you. (Applause.) Caleb built a wind turbine that's small and fast enough to be installed on your roof or in your front yard.
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The new technology is coming from outfits like Advantage Learning Systems, a small but fast-growing software company in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. that sells instructional aids and computerized quizzes to monitor their results.
Most of them are small, fast-growing tech companies.
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Driving the calculus are China, Russia and other emerging markets, where a small but fast-growing millionaire class is flocking to big, high priced and lavishly loaded models that can handle poor roads as well as a family.
Many analysts, including Jami Rubin at Goldman Sachs and, more recently, Timothy Anderson at Bernstein Research, have argued that Pfizer could split up the company in such a way that the remaining drug division could be a small, fast-growing pharma.
Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.
The Net will get it by way of cheap, fast connections to homes and small offices--blink fast, fast enough for TV-quality videoconferencing.
The Internet was supposed to give small businesses a fast and cheap leg up.
Instead, companies need to move into a testing phase where they Start Small and Learn Fast.
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Sense Networks is small but growing fast, experiencing 100% YOY growth since Petersen came on board.
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The approach offered in this eBook is how every company should innovate: by thinking big, starting small and learning fast.
Companies must also recognise the virtues of failing small and failing fast.
But, if it continues to Think Big, Start Small and Learn Fast, Google will accelerate the development of driverless capabilities worth trillions to society.
The number of day traders, who each make a dozen to hundreds of trades daily hoping to tally lots of small scores on fast-moving stocks, has remained relatively stable at 75, 000 since the Nasdaq's heyday.
If, however, they can Think Big, Start Small and Learn Fast, they can invent and own an extraordinary future in which culture, commerce and society reshape around driverless cars, much as those aspects of our current lives were shaped around human-driven cars.
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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.
Fast-growing small companies, which are the biggest single creator of new jobs, depend largely upon retained earnings to finance their growth.
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The resulting silicon can be treated with the usual chip-making processes to make transistors that are small, flexible and reasonably fast.
Senior Editor Tom Post runs this department of the magazine, now called "Entrepreneurs, " and you can see his handiwork in this issue's Best 200 survey of fast-growing small companies.
In a dictionary that Christopher Koonooka translated from Yupik to English, there are words describing wavy ice, shore fast ice, small cakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles.
As the cloud continues to level the playing field for businesses large and small, we are seeing fast adoption that has helped to unleash great ideas and innovations by organizations from start-ups to large outfits.
The ASUS Transformer Book uses a SanDisk U100 SSD for high-capacity, blazing-fast storage and a small footprint that allows it to fit neatly into the sleek, ultra-thin notebook.
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