Ilene Gordon: The board was looking to take the company to the next level.
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Before long she partnered up with Brendan Synnott, a then-Saturday Night Live employee in the talent department and old high school friend, to take the company to the next level.
Then, when the cash is flowing and you want to take things to the next level, private equity steps in.
Universal has made its problems with iTunes well known in the past, and it now looks like it might be set to take things to the next level, with BusinessWeek reporting that the company is trying to enlist the support of other record labels in order to launch their own music subscription service.
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App.net expects third-party developers to take the interface to the next level and to create the features users love.
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In addition, he says, investment is needed in research and development to take the industry to the next level to build bigger ocean-going vessels.
Mr. Halfens, who is 33 and also runs a concierge attorney business, wants to take the idea to the next level, by filming couples going through the whole process.
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First, to take the platform to the next level, we want to tap into the collective talents and ingenuity of the American people, to enhance functionality, improve the code and address existing challenges such as those identified by David Powner and his team at GAO.
If both parties agree to take it to the next level, then make it official.
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That said, we're now at a stage where we're being approached by many investors to take this to the next level.
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Enrique Pena Nieto's six-year presidency is an opportunity for him and a second chance for his party to take Mexico to the next level.
After talking with SessionM and discovering their solution for incentivizing and rewarding fans, we felt it was a way to take engagement to the next level.
When Pope Benedict XVI steps down at the end of this month, he will leave an established social media presence and a cadre of insiders ready to take it to the next level.
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Of course, there are those that posses some AI smarts, too, but Georgia Tech wants to take this to the next level, and build a 'bot that can interact with its environment on the fly.
With the talented inventor, and the talented marketer, Orabrush needed to add a talented CEO who could take the company to the next level.
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Even apps are tracking that way: Tweetie, one of the most popular Twitter apps, debuted for the iPhone before it was available for Mac OS. Now we need to bring some OS-level innovations back to the PC desktop and take personal computing to the next level as well.
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Once you've gone through the above gallery and learned how to compose your images, you may find the following technical tips helpful to take your pictures to the next level.
Are you investing in a tool or some ninjas who will use the tool to take your company to the next level?
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Take the time to step back to sort out what is essential to take your leadership to the next level and then translate these insights into practices.
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It is good to get it sorted now, because it can be difficult to appoint a new manager in the middle of the season, we now have plenty of time to work with him and hopefully he can take us to the next level.
"All the England players want to take our games to the next level and we know that if only a few of us raise our games, we will be beaten, " she said.
When an idea on Reddit really hits the mark, the voting component of the site can then take it to the next level.
This experience has helped me find out more about my business and learn the ways I can take it to the next level.
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"After nearly 10 years in cricket administration at the heart of cricket first in England, and then in the global game, I feel I have the right sort of skills to take Irish cricket to the next level commercially and administratively, " he said.
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This is yet another example of how both the Denon and Marantz brands utilize ahead-of-the-curve innovations and technologies to take home entertainment to the next level.
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The hotshot from out of town may not be the best person to help take your business to the next level.
There, selected female entrepreneur finalists will pitch a panel of VCs for the opportunity to receive feedback, mentoring and money to take their company to the next level.
"The government's transparency agenda presents a great opportunity to take information rights to the next level, " he said.
The transaction will establish a balanced ownership structure that enables Alibaba to take our business to the next level as a public company in the future.
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