How are Big and Bold defined in your business and what brands do you see taking the leap?

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Having a community that understands the odds of failure lowers the risk for people taking the leap into entrepreneurship.

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But for Yesh, the most important result of taking the leap to found her own company was finding a new side of herself, a passion for entrepreneurship and building companies.

FORBES: The Existential MBA

Now games are taking the next big leap, on to the Internet.

ECONOMIST: Games and the Internet go well together

Nonetheless, it and the euro zone would be taking a leap into the unknown.

WSJ: Crisis Won't Hurt Euro Zone��Unless Cyprus Leaves

Now the country is taking another leap forward with access to the fastest average home internet connections and the highest wireless broadband subscription rate in the world.

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Now the administration is taking another leap, inviting Iran to several meetings on Afghanistan as a way to engage on issues of mutual interest.

CNN: Obama administration opens door for Iran

Leap is not taking the interest (or interests) of developers for granted.

FORBES: Leap Motion Is Putting Its Future Into The Hands Of Software Developers

Despite all the evidence that suggests people are more productive, happier, work harder, and stay with the company longer, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer seems to think taking a giant leap backward requiring her employees back in the office, makes sense.

FORBES: Does Marissa Mayer Know Something We Don't?

But the overall mood in the city was one of let's go, I'm not taking any more chances and that is the leap from a typical New Orleanians mind set.

NPR: New Orleans Family Heads North

In many ways, The Visitor is a movie about taking a leap of faith, whether it's moving to a new country, befriending someone from a different class or culture, or learning a new instrument.

NPR: Learning to Drum �� and Live �� in 'The Visitor'

While many people are agonizing over how closely kids are tracked online, tracking of the little ones in the offline world is taking a Mickey Mouse-sized leap forward.

FORBES: It's An Easily-Tracked World After All. Disney Parks Are Getting RFID-Enabled 'MagicBands.'

Still, the past two decades suggest City would be taking quite a leap of faith in picking a man of Pellegrini's age.

WSJ: Pellegrini's Background Looks Good For Soccer's Manchester City

Leap Motion will continue taking direct orders world wide for the controller at www.leapmotion.com, and will ship pre-orders later this quarter.

ENGADGET: Leap Motion goes retail: motion controller to be sold exclusively at Best Buy

They said investors would be taking a "leap of faith" by investing in Railtrack because of the company's operational and funding problems.

BBC: 'Renationalise' say Railtrack investors

"Those who are using it are taking a leap of faith, " says Dr. Paul Jellinger, the president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

FORBES: Sweet syringe of youth

DirecTV has a thing for offering up exclusives such as this in order to help fencesitters make the leap, so it's no shock to see the satcaster taking the multi-pane approach used primarily for sporting events to cover election night.

ENGADGET: DirecTV's Election Mix channel brings maximum coverage to one place

"America's space industry is taking a quantum leap forward with this historic shift, " said John Gedmark, executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.

CNN: Congress approves $19 billion for NASA but layoffs loom

To make an orthograde single-footed leap, which was the most common way to jump, the gibbon continued its walk taking one full stride before reaching the take off phase.

BBC: Earth News - How gibbons leap huge distances revealed by scientists