Sentences with phrase «creating barriers to entry»

As Colorado's Governor John Hickenlooper declared, «rules designed to protect consumers should not burden businesses with unnecessary red tape or stifle competition by creating barriers to entry.»

In oligopoly publishing markets, or markets with «dominant» publishers, such practices by publishers at least raise a credible appearance of creating barriers to entry by lower - priced competitors.

Creating barriers to entry through complexity is not a viable strategy.

In content - based industries, that is what is creating barriers to entry for people to come in.

Competitive advantages can protect a company by creating barriers to entry for potential competitors.

The online retailer «threatened the long - term, overall health of the book publishing industry,» said Penguin, «by creating barriers to entry, undercutting the margins and incentives of other sellers, fostering a perception of ebooks as lowcost commodities, and threatening the viability of book publishers and authors, as well as other book selling outlets vital to the marketing and promotion of books».

Hopefully, the governments will get out of the way and stop creating barriers to entry and expansion.

«Infrastructure that is not replicable — that ultimately creates a barrier to entry.»

Finally, it could be argued the MasterCard intends to create a barrier to entry for competing networks through regulation — but the purpose of regulation is to protect consumers, not the competitive advantage of corporations.

Other approaches that can create a barrier to entry like economies of scale, regulatory expertise, intellectual property and brand still matter, but they are relatively less important than they once were, especially in the case of software startups.

The good news is the same thing, since that difficulty can create barriers to entry.

The monthly subscription creates a barrier to entry and ensures that everyone you are interested in on their sites are also looking to date other people.

However, it would also add complication, create a barrier to entry, and even $ 2 / month could be 20 % of the total after - tax royalty a self - published author generates.

From Wikipedia: «Predatory pricing (also undercutting) is a pricing strategy where a product or service is set at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors.»

I don't think the DRM issue is important for consumers and James isn't saying it is, rather it creates barriers to entry for new innovative retailers and helps create the lock in that publishers might seek to avoid.

The Kindle becoming the standard handheld reader creates another barrier to entry, because it is designed for use with the Amazon interface.

Creating a barrier to entry and competition in the e-book reader market.

They invest in IT and customer relationships to create barriers to entry that are difficult to reverse engineer.

It creates a barrier to entry for new players.

Once a company is big and successful, it can use its money to promote a system that favors retention of its power and profitability, and without even meaning to do so can help create barriers to entry of competing technologies.

He didn't want to create a barrier to entry, but wanted the Center to be a space where people would feel welcome walking in from the street.

While the SNFs have higher operating risk profiles, many states have CONs that create barriers to entry, which is important given that we like to hold our loans on the balance sheet.

«It kind of creates barriers to entry to putting out good disclosure,» according to McTiernan.

Not exact matches

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

Meanwhile, the barrier for entry to learn skills needed to create an excellent product has lowered.

«If the barrier to entry is that everyone really likes having their insurer and their provider integrated together that it creates a much more attractive insurance class, then we should allow that activity to happen and we should regulate it,» he explained.

A high barrier to entry increases the time that the first group to create ASICs will monopolize the market.

What's interesting is that the barriers to entry in video have never been better... but yet it's harder for people to create.

Simply having «a head start on the competition» isn't usually considered significant — unless you can create what are known as «barriers to entry,» which make it difficult for new competitors to imitate your offering.

You had to invest money in equipment, rent and utilities — these upfront costs created serious barriers to entry.

Moreover, the barriers to entry for creating other cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technology are evidently very low.

Other factors can create moats and sometime it is the combination of factors that produces the barrier to entry.

If you have extensive knowledge of how to write codes and create apps, it is much more advisable to start your business from the scratch since the barriers to entry in the industry and startup costs are moderately low.

But Representative Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, said regulation «could create a harmful barrier to entry for some startups, particularly ones that might want to compete with you.»

The internet has reduced many of the traditional barriers to entry that protect companies from competition and created a race to the bottom for prices in a number of categories.

«Art breaks down the barriers between people and creates an easy entry point to important topics.

The pay walls create a nice barrier to entry to keep a lot of the riff - raff out and we're happy for that.

Even if a reduced feature - set compared to traditional Learning Management Systems may take eLearning professionals some getting used to, there is plenty of opportunity for creating online training courses using these platforms and, thus, inviting groups to the world of online learning who previously found the entry barrier too high.

This removes another small, but important, barrier to entry, and lets potential paid users register and check - out your eLearning offerings without having to create yet another web account.

Second, and even more plausible perhaps, is that the emergence of the edXs of the world is systematically lowering the barriers of entry for other entrepreneurs, such as Gene Wade of UniversityNow, to create their own low - cost universities with low - cost degrees and add value by enhancing the educational process in other ways.

Suggesting the ebook retailers clearly differentiate between self - published titles and those that come from an actual multi-author small press doesn't create «artificial barriers to entry.»

If HP can create a compelling tablet offering that people are willing to buy, the barriers to entry might be fairly minimal.»

Barrier to entry may be low, but creating a book that looks professional and is indistinguishable from a book published by a «real» publishing house is very difficult and requires a minimum investment of a few thousand dollars (when all was said and done, I'd put in around $ 7,500, which included about $ 2,500 in marketing costs).

The fact that a self - published title sits adjacent to traditionally - published products on Amazon completely obliterates the barriers to entry BigPub has spent billions to create.

There are significant barriers to entry for creating an author - marketing tool.

With a history of experience from traditional publishing companies and houses, this has helped us create packages that rival these publishing companies due to the difficulty and barriers to entry getting a big publishing deal, we've brought together key points that have worked for traditional publishing and and moulded them to our self - publishing packages.

Second, there are barriers to entry; creating a new title insurer would involve creating or purchasing new databases of property records, which would be prohibitively costly.

In contrast, the barrier to entry for creating software is low.

CMP's primary advantages are its mineral production sites and logistical networks, which create meaningful barriers to entry and pricing power.

This age old philosophy translated to the world's largest marketplace has created a huge opportunity for profit, with low barriers to entry.