But with the advantages of technology and electronic payments, now is the time for crowdfunding.
Working with some of the largest and most respected banks in the country, Tesla has been able to create a new kind of financing product that combines the surety and comfort of ownership with all the advantages of a traditional lease.
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"With the many advantages of the Jelly Bean Android 4.1 operating system, users will enjoy the simplicity and ease of operating Nextbook Google Play tablets, " remarked Jason Liszewski, managing director and VP of sales for E FUN.
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"As the only Ultrabook with an HDD option, the Aspire S3 offers the computing power and storage needs of a notebook, along with the mobile communication advantages of the smartphone and tablet PC, " added Kan.
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"We are extremely dedicated to the future of DVD collections, so much so that we created a new Blu-ray specific club which will provide consumers dedicated to this format with all of the advantages of our club membership, " says Deborah Fine, President and CEO of Direct Brands Inc.
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It has a highly fuel-efficient gasoline engine that gives Volt drivers a peace of mind and a confidence about not being stranded that drivers of Nissan Leaf and other EVs can only envy coupled with most of the advantages of being able to drive Volt in electric-only mode when desired.
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Austin is a remarkably laid-back place, with all the advantages of being a blue city in a red state.
Private farms remained, along with the considerable advantages of individual initiative.
As Delaware was experimenting with the relative advantages of fast incorporation, corporate tax havens, and efficient arbitration, other states like Tennessee or Texas were proving that they could expand real growth by not taxing your most mobile of resources: your personal income.
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With respect to people who have made their lives in this very beautiful area, what would lead people to build a beautiful home in an area where, particularly with all the advantages of modern meteorological science, we know will at some point get hit by a pretty devastating hurricane?
But the biggest winners will be companies that can combine the advantages of scale with the agility to respond to fast-changing market conditions.
With the design changes and the cost advantages of high-volume production, GE improved reliability (uptime) from 85 percent to 97 percent at a price advantage to customers.
Bell, who, along with fellow researcher Jim Gemmell, is the author of a new book called "Total Recall, " talked with CNN about the advantages and drawbacks of recording one's life in painstaking digital detail.
Forbes.com chatted with Hertzke recently about the advantages of knowing everything about the business, including the kitchen sink.
Perhaps one of the many advantages of working with a personal financial planner is simply having someone who will celebrate your successes.
And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.
If a majority of the French people backed equality of treatment and therefore civil union for all, with its strings of fiscal advantages, they did however split on the second part of the bill, and the question of adoption rights and access to IVF for gays and lesbians.
With few of the tax advantages that exist in America, museum sponsorship in Britain has been an uphill struggle.
Mr Omura, less prone to hyperbole, says that all big Japanese cities are in a struggle to compete with the likes of Shanghai, so why should Tokyo have all the advantages?
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It took exactly two stops before we got to the first soccer-themed demonstration: the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits showed off the advantages of embedding chips in soccer balls, along with the shoes of the players.
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When used to process unclassified information, sharing cloud computing resources can nominally provide the operational advantages of a private cloud with a cost closer to that of a public cloud due to the expected economies of scale from combined user communities.
The effect of this new provision, which was strongly pushed by the NFL in its negotiations with the NFLPA, is to create a couple of advantages for NFL teams: (1) the Tag numbers will be lower, pulling from a more dated pool of numbers, and (2) teams can now use the Tag designation as a greater leverage point in negotiations that is stronger than it was previously.
Such "attack the strength" tactics have been a staple of this year's presidential race, with both sides trying to undermine perceived advantages of the other.
While there are other sites out there that will provide low-cost storage in the cloud, Skorny thinks Real has a couple of advantages in its close ties with the carriers (which should help with distribution) and its specific focus on making it easy to collect and then use content from any gadget you happen to use.
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"We are delighted to bring the unique advantages of our technology platform to the world of athletics with Reebok, " said Ben Schlatka, Vice President of Business Development and Co-Founder of MC10.
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"There is opposition everywhere, that is something we have to address and work in a totally transparent manner and bring people along with us and make them realise what the advantages of this are, " he said.
Innovation in government is one of the big advantages of devolution, and some Welsh approaches are watched with interest in Westminster.
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These products require customers to forfeit some of the flexibility and liquidity of mutual funds, but they usually come with tax advantages attached.
But with all this emphasis on doing more, the advantages of doing less are being forgotten.
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