And if they haven't improved by the end of the year, the government will have to start coming up with solutions which cost real money.
But I think there are five steps you can take to lower the odds that these things will happen or to nip them in the bud before they cost your start-up too much time or money.
But as the cost of building a start-up fell and the social media explosion attracted a new money, New York's venture community scratched its way back.
Maples made a strong case that the cost of getting into the start-up game had plunged.
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Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.
It would bar companies from taking a tax deduction for the cost of moving operations to an overseas start-up.
Yet again another music start-up has decided to give up on their model over the cost of musical rights.
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Will the next big start-up company locate in the U.S. with such a cost disadvantage?
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In Italy, too - worries about the state of the economy helped push up the Italian government's cost of borrowing at the start of the week.
Even assuming a start-up can develop a technology innovative enough to make a difference, the cost of indexing the Web--which now includes billions of pages--is far higher than it was a decade ago.
Compaq got a head start on the cost-reduction process by fielding more than 200 teams to draw up "road maps" detailing products Compaq would continue to produce and how they would be marketed and sold.
Any new propulsion system has got to at least match what drivers are used to-it has to be fast, it has to last, it has to start up and run smoothly in every kind of weather, and it can't cost tens of thousands of dollars.
In fact, cost-conscious consumers may start buying more fancy food than before, to make up for going out to restaurants less.
The bid-cost recovery mechanism is supposed to provide make-whole payments that cover start-up and minimum load costs for parties requesting electric energy.
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Mr Burbage is also confident that once production at the firm's mile-long factory in Fort Worth ramps up to 17 aircraft a month, as planned, the more pessimistic unit-cost projections will start to fall.
Encryptor, a cleantech start-up company based in Plano, TX, is commercializing the underlying technology in the form of a low-cost electronic chip that can be easily built into appliances.
For a start, it will give breathing space to low-cost carriers such as Interjet and Volaris, which have gobbled up 21% of domestic traffic since 2005 but have been kept out of many of the most profitable routes by the older airlines.
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