Sentences with phrase «first time of the launching»

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When Microsoft first launched the original Surface products, it pitched an idea that seemed either weirdly unconvincing or just too ahead of its time, which eventually became the device's very marketing tagline: «The tablet that can replace your laptop.»

Grepper had built a version of The Coolest when he launched on Kickstarter that first time, but he wasn't able to fashion all of the features promised.

Grepper's Kickstarter failure the first time worked to his benefit, as he was able to launch his second campaign with support from his initial group of backers.

«We wanted to be the first student group in the world to launch a rocket into space,» Ellis says of the friends» time at the University of Southern California.

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

Elon Musk's new recycled / reusable rockets will cost $ 40 million per launch, 30 percent less than a first - time flight and well below than the industry standard of roughly $ 150 million.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Birthed one of the first female media moguls: In 1988, he turned the Playboy empire over to his daughter, Christine - the first time he wasn't in power since the 1953 launch.

Ride - sharing app Lyft, which has seen its market share surge in the last year as rival Uber has struggled, is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time with plans to launch in Toronto.

That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first - stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

The federal government's disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov is an embarrassingly perfect example of basically everything you shouldn't do when going live with a website for the first time.

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time Tuesday, a major milestone in the company's quest to grow its customer base and fund its vision of making life multiplanetary.

While Time - Life may have been one of the first to try direct sales in the early»90s, brands like Johnson & Johnson, which spent $ 22 million on its DRTV launch of Neutrogena SkinID in 2008, see value in the ad format once reserved for the Shake Weight.

«This was the first time we saw self - publishing turn into an audition for commercial prime time,» says Nathan Maharaj, director of merchandise at Kobo, which recently launched Kobo Writing Life, a self - publishing e-book service for aspiring writers that Maharaj's team closely monitors for «opportunities that are worth mainstream attention.»

In fact, were I a first - time entrepreneur, I'd rather launch my product in a competitive space than shoulder the burden of creating an entirely new one.

Every so often, I hear of first - time entrepreneurs who either rushed through launches to beat their competition or abandoned their launches altogether because a competitor got the jump on the market.

For the first time in its 30 years history, PepsiCo's Naked brand is looking beyond juices and smoothies with the launch this week of Naked - branded fruit, nut, and veggie bars.

At the end of the first week of the company's launch, Instagram had been downloaded 100,000 times.

The news comes as bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, smashed through a new record high price on Wednesday, reaching $ 6,600 for the first time, following news of CME's plan to launch bitcoin futures later this year.

«We made the mistake of launching [the first time] after getting only minimal input,» Hornbuckle said.

Agrawal officially launched Tushy in 2015, and claims that in the first year of business, it saw around one and a half times as much in revenue as Thinx.

If the landing is successful, it will be the first time scientists have landed a probe on a comet, and it will be the completion of a mission that began 10 years ago when the Rosetta spacecraft launched.

AIM, which launched as a standalone service in 1997, introduced many of us to the joys of internet chat for the first time.

The rocket builder's Electron vehicle reached orbit for the first time, deploying a payload of micro-satellites after launching from the company's complex on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.

Ask Scott D. Anthony, author of The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market, and he'll tell you that the heady early days — when an innovation moves from idea to market — are the toughest time for any startup.

The first three games that will arrive on Game Pass at the same time as their global launch dates are «Sea of Thieves,» «Crackdown 3,» and «State of Decay 2» — all Xbox One exclusive games, published by Microsoft.

By the 1980s, however, Canadian Business had direct competition for the first time in its history, in the form of The Financial Post Magazine and Report on Business, which was launched as a give - away insert in the Globe in 1985.

These lines could have been written by one of our students launching a product for the first time.

This year, the office - cleaning startup expanded out of New York City for the first time, launching its operations in Chicago and San Francisco.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Carole James launched her «Axe the Tax» campaign in late June, and by August the provincial NDP was polling (slightly) ahead of Gordon Campbell's Liberals for the first time in almost a decade.

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In its latest effort to reach first - time homebuyers, Freddie Mac is launching a new 3 % down payment program that casts aside a number of restrictions in its existing low down payment offerings.

The launch will involve the Falcon Heavy rocket system, which will be the world's most powerful rocket by the time of its first flight test this summer.

Interest from UK property buyers on Gate-Away.com has overtaken US demand, where one - third of searchers have an Italian surname, on the Gate-Away.com website for the first time since it was launched in 2007

Getting a wide range of feedback on new products and features — whether they are easy to use, whether they are worth developing in the first place, or what should be next in your development queue — helps keep your ear to the ground and get the all - important community buy - in for greater adoption rates at launch time.

The expected launch of the platform in California will be the first time SVX has scaled operations outside of Canada.

The Venezuelan government launched the pre-sale of the world's first national, oil - backed cryptocurrency Petro (PTR), Financial Times reports Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Over time, MFS has been a leading innovator in the asset management industry, including creating one of the first in - house research departments in the mutual fund industry in 1932, launching the first high - yield municipal bond fund and the first global balanced fund, and more recently creating «outcome - oriented» products, such as its line of target - risk, target - date, and other asset allocation strategies.

The company has been busy in the background, launching a beta of its banner sidechains project and announcing its first commercial product, Liquid, which is aimed at speeding up transfer times between bitcoin exchanges, in 2015.

At the end of the countdown, someone presses a button meant to launch the Tamir for the first time, leaving a long white trail behind it.

Capital spending is rebounding, new upstream projects launch weekly and several major integrated oil companies (IOCs) have posted consecutive quarters of profitability for the first time since 2014.

His process is highlighted first by the evaluation of an idea and the timing around its launch.

However, many people complain that fees to use these machines are still high, although these complaints might not be that prominent as they were at the start of first bitcoin ATMs launch times.

«Alibaba Group has been incubating this country pavilion project for some time now,» said Jeff Zhang, president of China retail marketplaces for Alibaba Group, calling the 11 sites launched today the «first fruit of this ongoing project to make global trade easier.»

A new ShotTracker fan app — expected to launch today — will combine real - time analytics with augmented reality for a first - of - its - kind fan engagement opportunity at next week's Division 1 NA... Read more

First - time entrepreneurs intent on launching an online business see Southeast Asia as an ideal place because of the warm climates and extensive network of expatriates already living the region.

In America, for the first time, Christianity and democratic self - government launched themselves together in a kind of double - stranded helix spiraling through time.

Migros, the Swiss food retailer, has launched a range of gluten - free products aimed specifically at coeliacs, the first time the co-operative group has catered for sufferers of the digestive disease.

Bacardi's responses to this variety - seeking culture include its 1995 introduction of Bacardi Limón, the first flavored rum, which when introduced was hailed by the industry as the most successful new spirit launch of all time.