Reading Small Giants helped me frame what sustainable and smart growth looks like.
Now, in the years since Small Giants was published, Meyer has since expanded outside of New York City by, for instance, opening a Shake Shack restaurant in Dubai.
Multinational giants and small startups are there to display gadgets, most of which have not yet been released to the market.
As small companies and tech giants alike join the coalition against the act, attention turns to the lawmakers on capitol hill, who begin debating the bill on Jan. 23.
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It seemed marginally better than less than 3o seconds to get into field goal range, even after factoring in the small chance that the Giants might miss the short field goal.
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The result is that food giants are gobbling small, innovative brands, especially in America where valuations are depressed.
But they are small in contrast to the shrinking giants of investment banking.
This discovery inspired HPV vaccine programs at such drug giants as Merck and small biotechs as MedImmune in Gaithersburg, Maryland, which supplies the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine.
But even BP, which is one of the world's biggest companies, is actually a small pygmy compared to the real giants of oil.
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was twice (at Sun and Novell) beaten up by Microsoft through a robust developer network, and has made it a point to cultivate small developers, and swarm the giants, since he arrived at Google.
This discovery kick-started HPV vaccine programs at drug giants such as Merck and small biotechs like Gaithersburg, Md.
Compared to the U.S. giants, Kaspersky is small time.
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Previously the French government has considered introducing a tax on online advertising revenues but it later dropped the plan, worried it would hurt small local companies more than global internet giants.
In the industrial-gas business small players have as much chance as the giants in grasping big opportunities, Mr Messer argues.
Talent poaching is happening at all levels, from technology giants like Facebook and Apple to small start-ups.
Lazard's investment-banking business is too small to be an effective competitor against such giants as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs.
F1 may seem small change besides the turnover of such corporate giants.
Second Life opened in 2003 and is now inhabited by about 100, 000 people from around the world (still a small number compared with the video-game giants).
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Marketing experts say these added benefits will appeal to the growing ranks of "weekend warriors, " but Noble is small and faces a competitive threat from industry giants, such as Nike, which are hard at work developing their own products.
The two giants see their fastest growth coming from small and medium-size businesses in the years ahead.
In theory the Internet should put small vendors on a level playing field with established giants.
These small companies will be competing for financing against European giants with big balance sheets and long histories of building big, complicated projects like Abengoa and Acciona (who have already built and are still building solar thermal projects) and Siemens and Areva (who both acquired solar thermal companies recently).
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His firm faces competition from small shops such as England's Biotica Technology and giants like Novartis.
Some of the French will go it alone: Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris sees small size as a selling point in a world of giants.
The very fact that a relatively small company was competing at the box office with Hollywood giants became the story, enough to make the covers of Time and Newsweek.
Players include liquor giants like Pernod Ricard and Jose Cuervo, plus small entrepreneurs like Hagar.
Oncology was briefly dominated by small biotechs, but it's now a battleground for giants.
Sovereign-wealth funds' recent investment in giants such as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch comprised too small a percentage of ownership to count as FDI by the BEA's definition, but set the city abuzz nonetheless.
He argues that given the small size of the cloud computing market, Amazon and other giants will be more interested in growing the demand for cloud services than hoarding their shares of the market.
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