Founder Tom Bunchman started out as a franchisee himself, having managed and maintained a business for over
a decade before launching the JumpBunch concept in 1997.
Planning for the Hubble Space Telescope began in the 1970s, two
decades before its launch.
Not exact matches
Almost a
decade ago —
before Twitter even existed,
before Facebook hit the mainstream,
before Snapchat and Instagram and Vine — CNN
launched an ambitious venture called iReport.
Before Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first of what would become hundreds of Macy's stores, he spent more than a
decade launching four dry goods stores that would eventually go bust.
Over the following
decades, Adelson dabbled in the retail and tourism industries
before launching the computer trade show COMDEX in 1979.
Best Buy began opening these stores more than a
decade ago,
before Apple Inc's iPhone was
launched and when margins in the business were high, Best Buy Chief Executive Hubert Joly told employees in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
Angell founder and mechanical engineer Paul Angell spent two
decades designing big - brand tennis rackets
before launching his own business to custom - make them.
-- Ed Thorp In the
decade after Ed thorp
launched Princeton Newport Partners, the fund gained 409 %, annualizing at 17.7 %
before fees and 14.1 % after.
This self - driving technology is anticipated to be
launched before the
decade ends, according to Volvo.
The company
launched a gluten - free menu more than a
decade ago —
before there were many options for people with celiac disease or people began adopting it as their diet.
Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute spent nearly a
decade searching for a second destination for New Horizons after Pluto, starting two years
before the spacecraft
launched in 2006.
Just north of the planet's equator, researchers have found a rare wave structure, of a type that has been spotted on the planet only once
before,
decades ago by the Voyager 2 mission, which was
launched in 1977.
Ruslan Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, two scientists at NASA Ames Research Center, have outlined innovative plans for a small space telescope with a half - meter mirror that could
launch before the end of the
decade on a dedicated mission to obtain basic images of any Alpha Centauri planets.
Under an agreement that should be finalised by the end of the month, the US will allow the Russians to
launch eight commercial communications satellites into high Earth orbit
before the end of the
decade.
And he points out that very few multi-agency missions are smooth; for instance, the $ 700 - million Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, with contributions from the DOE and NASA, went through a difficult birthing process for more than a
decade before being
launched last year.
An unmanned «demonstration flight» would be
launched before the end of the
decade to study atmosphere re-entry problems.
In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission — a billion - dollar,
decade - in - the - making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just
before it was scheduled to go into orbit around the planet — NASA administrator Daniel Goldin decided to shift to smaller, less expensive spacecraft and create a sustained exploration campaign by sending one or two probes to Mars at every
launch opportunity.
ELIZABETH DEHN, Healers Podcast, Writer, speaker, space - holder, healer - curator Writer and lifestyle editor Elizabeth Dehn spent more than a
decade creating content for Fortune 100 companies, popular publications, and her award - winning blog, Beauty Bets,
before launching HEALERS podcast in 2017 to support others on their healing journey.
Just over a
decade ago, bulletin boards and newsgroups played host to a variety of dating activities,
before the first major Internet dating site, Match.com,
launched in 1995.
The film A
decade before «Basic Instinct»
launched the era of the mainstream erotic thriller, Lawrence Kasdan reinvented film noir for a sophisticated modern audience with this sweaty tale of scheming femmes fatales.
For Clouds of Sils Maria, Assayas brings on Juliette Binoche as Maria Enders, an actress at the peak of her career who has been asked to appear in a revival of the play which
launched her career
decades before.
Deerin earned
decades of experience as a marketing executive and professional fundraiser
before launching the after - school program in Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1990s.
In fact, the nation's first educational - voucher program was
launched a
decade before massive resistance.
It will
launch a new plug - in hybrid Outlander based on the current CUV, and then an all - new Outlander and an all - new Outlander Sport
before the end of the
decade.
The 2017 Nissan GT - R is the final update to the car
before the next generation model is
launched by the end of the
decade.
The Q8 is one of seven new SUV models currently under development at Audi and scheduled for
launch before the end of the
decade.
The Q8, one of seven new SUV models currently under development at Audi and scheduled for
launch before the end of the
decade, will join the Q2 (pictured).
People forget that Cornwell was on the forefront, one of the people most credited for
launching the interest in forensic research, about a
decade before the -LSB-...]
After flirting with it for
decades, Sex Criminals publisher Image has had a continued open door policy to more racy material; Fraction and Howard Chaykin's Satellite Sam,
launched several months
before this, explores the sexual indiscretions of a 1960s TV show host, and the reprinting of Chaykin's Black Kiss (and then an original sequel) shows some bold moves by Image to push into new territory for a mainstream direct market publisher.
-- Ed Thorp In the
decade after Ed thorp
launched Princeton Newport Partners, the fund gained 409 %, annualizing at 17.7 %
before fees and 14.1 % after.
Of course, the same reaction happened over a
decade before with the
launch of the Nintendo -LSB-...]
Of course, the same reaction happened over a
decade before with the
launch of the Nintendo Wii.
For unlike some of the locales where Asian biennials were
launched in the 1990s, the Kochi - Muziris Biennale happened in the context of an Indian contemporary art world that had enjoyed a dramatic commercial boom in the first
decade of the 21st century
before levelling off from 2008.
About a
decade ago I estimated a probable warming bias in Hadcrut3 of about 0.07 C per
decade, based on satellite temperatures This warming bias probably extends back
before the satellites were
launched, to about 1940.
After a
decade of uncertainty, while new procedural and funding systems have become established, we need time to reflect
before launching into yet further reforms, with the risk of making changes almost just for the sake of change.
Pat has worked in voice technology for a
decade and co-founded XAPP in 2012, well
before Amazon Echo
launched.
However, it's difficult to imagine the creation of bitcoin, let alone the hundreds of other digital currencies which have since
launched, without the earlier attempts at cryptocurrencies and electronic cash in the
decades before bitcoin was
launched.