At the same time, getting involved with startups can create friction with other investors.
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This is the holy grail of messaging platforms: evoking strong emotion with minimal friction.
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The record-breaking machine used silica tyres filled with helium and ceramic bearings designed to revolve with minimum friction.
Once dominant, these New Economy locomotives could run with negative friction, always picking up speed like some superconducting profit phenomenon.
Facebook search might be effective, or sharing your vanity addresses or business cards, but this tool provides a really easy way to exchange contact information with multiple people with minimal friction.
"Daimler had wanted to run the company, and, with the friction, nothing meshed right, " said IHS Global Insight's George Magliano, adding that Fiat would do well to give more room to Chrysler to be creative.
If men and women can acknowledge these differences, empathize with one another and come up with ways to cope with their different responses to workplace challenges, they will work together more productively and with less friction.
"Currently, Facebook's tagging suggestion feature does not work for mobile devices as well as it does on desktops, so it's possible that Face.com could make it faster for mobile users to tag from their mobile uploads with less friction, " he writes.
Many foreigners who were parachuted into the company at its launch by Groupon (most of whom were from Germany) are no longer with the company after a lot of friction with the JV partners from Tencent about how to make the venture work in China.
With a decline in output, there is a possibility of renewed friction with mine workers.
Trade with the United States and major Asian trading partners rose as the global recovery strengthened and the economic impact of friction with China over a territorial dispute appeared to recede.
But does this require constant friction with other countries, or postponing all fun to the afterlife?
When Charles first came to live with them, friction formed before the bonds of brotherhood.
Shaw, who prided himself on fastidious preparation, had ordered a pair of custom truck-pulling shoes from England, with high-friction soles.
This works because gravity holds you firmly on the ground, and your feet stay put because of friction with the floor.
The goal is to reduce friction with host nations, the kind that results from accidents and other problems relating to local sensitivities.
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And as hair glides over silk (as opposed to creating friction with cotton), it is also less prone to forming knots and tangles.
Fights could break out over corporation tax breaks on foreign sales, another area of friction with Europe where America is clearly at fault.
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However, that may cause friction with Paris and Berlin, with reports suggesting both governments are keen to preserve their influence within the new company.
Traveling through the sky at a few kilometers per second, friction with the air can cause the meteor to break up into several pieces.
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Our customers simply want us to engage and interact with us with as little friction as possible, so they can meet their own goals and objectives.
They worry about the growing power of the Sunni sheikhs within the police force, that could lead to more friction with the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.
His thesis is that Europe's increasing friction with the U.S. is a natural outgrowth of the second-fiddle role the continent is destined to play in world affairs.
But that stance is a source of friction with Republicans, who say bigger changes need to be on the table for a deal to be reached by year's end.
That schism caused friction with my employer, as Apple told IDC to take me off the Apple beat, but I kept talking to the press about the company anyway.
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Ventures like World Coffee Research must also overcome friction with national research institutions that often aim to protect local interests, notably in Ethiopia, believed to be the fatherland of Arabica.
Without digital ID, we are stuck with the greatest friction point in Web commerce: that redundant typing in of passwords and filling out of home address fields for the umpteenth time.
It was friction with Ailes that drove Lachlan, the eldest of the three and until that point the anointed heir, out of the company in the first place six years ago, according to a New York magazine profile.
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Companies that empower viewers to accomplish this with a minimum of friction will emerge as winners.
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