Sentences with phrase «early traction in»

Already finding success in St. Louis — and praised as a national model by President Obama — the non-profit is finding early traction in Kansas City.

We're hoping to get some early traction in Austin.

Not exact matches

«If they don't have the product and some early market traction, they're not going to get very far in the funding anyway,» he says, «so the best thing they can do to work on their funding is work on the product.»

In early 2006, just as the concept of cloud computing was gaining traction in tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went livIn early 2006, just as the concept of cloud computing was gaining traction in tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went livin tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went live.

The cause is that you are actually too early, don't have traction, don't necessarily have background in the space, are coming to the investor via a not - so - warm introduction and asking for a lot of time.

After bringing these people on, you still aren't going to have additional dollars in your startup's pocket, but you'll be well - on - your - way to a solid team that's dedicated to gaining your product traction, which is about 80 percent of what most early - stage investors look for in the first place.

The product has already gained traction with in - house legal teams: LawGeex counts Sears, Deloitte, Skyview Capital, and Key Energy among its early clients, and it says that list also includes major banks and insurance companies.

It's still in early alpha release, yet «has already gained traction with enthusiastic users,» according to its creators.

Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

Startups are constantly tackling problems, big and small — determining product - market fit, developing traction and early adopters, hiring the right talent, raising money (and figuring out how to spend that money)-- but the key is figuring out which ones matter most to the company's leaders at any given point in time.

I asked SoundHound VP & GM Katie McMahon earlier why the company was getting traction now in automotive.

Since revamping its investment model in 2014, Brightspark has gained meaningful traction and is now investing in Canadian early - stage companies at the same pace as a traditional $ 100 million VC fund.

The certification group, who denied requests for comment for this story, has been gaining traction since its early adoption by natural retailer Whole Foods Market in 2011.

During practice and qualifying runs earlier in the week, Ferrari's world champion Lauda managed to shear two drive shafts, proving that the highly touted «traction» of the Italian cars was as susceptible to destructive overtorque as any others.

While most think it far too early to be talking about congressional primaries almost 13 months away, Democratic hopefuls have been crisscrossing the sprawling local 19th District in quest of early traction since last spring.

None of this fits terribly well with the usual «family values,» fiscally conservative Republican mold, and yet the freak show is gaining some big traction early in the exploratory cycle for Republican presidential candidates.

Stringer had struggled to gain traction in early polls against a strong field of presumptive mayoral candidates.

Though the governor has taken steps like expanding access to voter registration forms, his proposals to enact automatic registration and early voting that have passed the Democratically controlled Assembly haven't gained traction in the Republican - led Senate.

Although the FDA has not formally proposed any such change, the agency's cancer czar, Richard Pazdur, floated the idea at a public conference on cancer care earlier this month in Washington, D.C., suggesting the idea may be gaining official traction.

In an early primary field crammed with 16 candidates, presidential hopefuls could find traction by attacking Obama's climate policies, said Jeremy Carl, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution who has advised a number of the candidates on energy and climate.

CDI Labs Cites New Research Identifying Early Lung Cancer Autoantibody Biomarkers using HuProt ™ Proteomics company's high - content proteome microarray gaining traction in disease diagnosis and prognosis.

Splenda, also known as sucralose, is another calorie - free artificial sweetener that entered the market in 1999, and gained lots of traction in the early 2000's.

In spite of controversy and a poor ranking earlier this year by the US News and World report Diet rankings (the Paleo diet ranked dead last), the Paleo diet or caveman diet is gaining traction and popularity.

Genius: Picasso is sluggish in the early going before gaining traction in later episodes.

But since the Golden Globes in early January, Janney has run away with every possible award, building up the kind of traction that's difficult to lose, especially when you're a likable industry veteran whom everyone would be happy to see with an Oscar.

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»

You don't jump on the throttle early in the corner because the big rear tyres will push the nose wider still, so you wait until you're past the apex, then you begin straightening the wheel and feeding in the power, using the traction of the rear - biased four - wheel drive to ride the furiously ignited torque.

Slick - tread tires, the ultimate in dry - pavement traction, were invented in the early 1950s by Marvin and Henry Rifchin of M&H Tires.

Other MyKey tricks include a seat belt warning that mutes the radio until both front passengers are buckled in, an early low - fuel indicator, the inability to deactivate safety systems such as Ford's blind - spot monitoring system and traction control, an audio volume limit, and a speed alert chime.

The traction and composure I felt flogging the Lambo around GingerMan Raceway in South Haven, Michigan, earlier this year dulled the ultimate excitement level at the track but no doubt foreshadowed the Huracan's ability to plug through the worst Mother Nature can throw at us.

I don't understand why we don't see the MR2 Spyder on these lists more?!? I know the earlier ones were plagued with oil / engine - eating problems, but the later models are reliable to 100k + miles and cost similar to the same aged Smart Roadster above... but compared to the Smart, for your # 2k - # 5k you get a 6 speed manual gearbox, over 70 % more power (~ 20 % more weight) but this is packaged in a mid-engined, rear wheel drive, normally aspirated car with no traction control and a LSD as standard:)

You can play the hooligan in the CS if you wish, the engine is certainly strong enough to break rear traction, but it's so much more rewarding and satisfying to be able to open the throttle earlier in the corner and drive through the exit, feeling the diff hooking up and the chassis working the load with new found precision.

Dennis Harrison reports / A tale of two 1930s MGs — An M - type Midget and a J2 compared by Zoe Harrison / Memories of Brooklands — Charles Mortimer recreates the atmosphere and excitement of Brooklands in the 30s / A negative start — A collection of fascinating early glass - plate negatives of Veteran Cars described by D. R. Tubbs / Talbot 110 — with a unique body The Editor drives — and is greatly impressed by a 1934 George Roesche Talbot / 1929 Citroen C6F David Hawtin describes — Brian Barry's beautifully restored rare Citroen / 24th Astle Park traction engine rally — Many pre-1950 cars attended too.

The only available electronic antidote is traction control, which cuts in too early and hangs in longer than necessary.

In road 1 the RP1 still feels nut - case fast but also quite reassuring inasmuch as the traction control comes in quite early, and the boost is wound down a bit to provide a more manageable flow of torque, and therefore thrusIn road 1 the RP1 still feels nut - case fast but also quite reassuring inasmuch as the traction control comes in quite early, and the boost is wound down a bit to provide a more manageable flow of torque, and therefore thrusin quite early, and the boost is wound down a bit to provide a more manageable flow of torque, and therefore thrust.

This means being confident and positive, getting the car set up early for a corner, trail braking, even backing it in a touch (something helped by a lot of rear brake bias on this car) so that you oversteer slightly before the apex and then drive through using the huge traction of the four - wheel drive (split 50:50).

The torque gets to work early in the rev range and in the first couple of gears it's easy to start breaking traction on a dry road.

Benetton introduced their own active suspension and traction control early in the season, last of the frontrunning teams to do so.

Whereas the earlier Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), Automatic Stability Control (ASC) and Automatic Stability Control Plus Traction (ASC+T) improve longitudinal stability during braking and acceleration, the Active Rear Axle Kinematics system improves lateral stability in high - speed maneuvers.

If you do get on the throttle early you'll also find plenty of traction, but even in Sport + mode the car's traction and stability systems are fairly eager to cut in, so you'll need to disengage them to coerce the SLC into adopting any sort of angle from the rear.

With such power and torque and only the rear wheels to transmit it to the tarmac, traction can be at a premium in the Jag if you get back on the gas early.

Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) with Traction Control (TRAC) were optional in earlier models; standard from 2010.

Thanks to this superior traction, Lamborghini drivers can accelerate earlier out of a curve than those in rear - wheel drive cars.

As good as the LR4 was on the trail, it had a tougher time in sand, where the traction control cut in a little too early to realize the potential of the sweet 5.0 L V - 8.

Infinitrak, the US - based joint venture company owned by transmission innovation specialist Torotrak and outdoor power equipment (OPE) market leader MTD (earlier post), has developed a new epicyclic drive that replaces gears with traction spheres running in prescribed tracks, combining the functionality of a thrust bearing and an epicyclic drive stage.

Torotrak, a developer of full - toroidal traction drive technology (earlier post), and Optare UK, one of Europe's largest bus manufacturers, have recently achieved a 19 % improvement in fuel economy in an Optare Solo Bus by replacing the standard fit 5 - speed automatic transmission with... Read more →

At Agritechnica, Carraro DriveTech previewed the VaryT range of transaxles (combining a stepless transmission and the vehicle axle in one unit) incorporating Torotrak's full - toroidal traction drive (earlier post).

The dual - mode exhaust is sweet, though it gets loud pretty early in the rev range, and a quick double tap on the traction control button will allow short drifts before yanking you back in place.

In 1971, Buick introduced MaxTrac, which used an early computer system to detect rear wheel spin and modulate engine power to those wheels to provide the most traction.

Early the following afternoon, I set traction control to Sport 1, turn on the built - in lap timer, and confirm what the Corvette team had demonstrated at Virginia International Raceway a few months prior: This is almost certainly the fastest street - stock car money can buy.