Sentences with phrase «of being the next big thing»

The reality: while you're at CES with hopes and dreams of being the next big thing, so are hundreds of other companies and entrepreneurs.

Snapchat Geofilters have all the signs of being The Next Big Thing.

Of course hundreds of new mobile dating apps will continue to launch every year in the hopes of being the Next Big Thing.

I'm projecting 6 - 8 months just to break even, but audiobooks seem to be at the cusp of being the next big thing in self publishing.

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Before you spend a lot of time an energy creating the next big thing, use a patent search to make sure it hasn't already been done.

Mauro Porcini, the chief design officer of PepsiCo, argues that true innovation isn't about creating the «next big thing» to capture their fleeting attention.

«These are not sexy markets, but they are representative of large parts of the economy where everyone else isn't climbing over themselves to throw cash at the next big thing.»

Data might add scientific sparkle to the business of finding the next big thing, but there's still an art to telling us what the numbers mean.

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

I wanted to get a sense of whether or not these sneakers were as comfortable and easy to fall in love with as other cult - favorites (Allbirds being the most obvious)-- specifically because the greatest indicator of a shoe becoming «the next big thing» is generally whether or not people actually like wearing them.

The cohort of companies set to attain a billion - dollar valuation — a «unicorn,» or, in Canada, a «narwhal» — has also changed since the days when Shopify was still the next big thing.

Figuring out what customers want is a $ 21 - billion industry in the U.S., according to IBISWorld, and many major brands solicit advice from polling firms such as Ipsos Reid or the legacy research arms of advertising agencies like JWTIntelligence to help them spot the next big thing before it arrives.

Chatbots are the next big thing and it's not just limited to the customer care, marketing, and sales aspects of a business.

Innovation is vitally important to any country's economic health, and Canada has a strong track record of inventing the world's next big things.

One of the next big things as far as O'Reilly is concerned?

Automation, retargeting, social influencers — these are just a few to have laid claim on the title of «The Next Big Thing» in marketing.

Whether it's a new product or something as benign as a store layout, you don't have to look hard to find examples of (largely white) men at tech companies siloing themselves off to develop The Next Big Thing, only to discover a major, avoidable flaw after the fact.

In our world of trying to make everything bigger and faster, the challenge for companies ranging from SAP to Google (GOOGL) has been how to get more information into the DRAM, because if you want real - time data processing (for example, the Internet of things or for business transactions) you want jobs performed right next to the computer processor.

These are called disruptive technologies or the next big thing, in the sense that existing markets or economies of scale are disrupted by the scope of change.

If you end up among the many who decide to begin a job search in 2018 in pursuit of your next big thing, here are two important but simple things you should make sure you do that will not only significantly increase your chances of finding a great new job but will also help you land one that you can feel good about long after the «new company halo effect» has worn off.

If your startup has been tagged as «the next big thing,» the adrenalin rush that comes with building buzz can lead to impetuous decisions and a loss of a sense of purpose.

Being all things to all people required money, and there were plenty of eager investors who wanted in on Ev's next big thing.

Better known as a home for looping GIFs, the social blogging service, owned by ailing tech giant Yahoo, is clearly playing a bit of catch - up by getting onboard with what its bigger competitors have tabbed as the Next Big Thing.

All of this is being done while trying to simultaneously educate clients on both sides of its business about why anyone should get excited about yet another «paradigm shift» in an online space where someone's almost always hawking the next big thing.

VR has a bright future, to be sure, but if there's one thing that we've learned from the last five years of VR being «The Next Big Thing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, othing that we've learned from the last five years of VR being «The Next Big Thing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, oThing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, or AR.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

One way to be the next big thing is to get the attention of the people who are looking to introduce the next big thing to the world.

The virtual reality market has been loaded with false promises of the «next big thing» for years.

In a world where apps like Snapchat (whose founder is the ripe old age of 26) and Uber (whose No. 2 executive is all of 33) can achieve seemingly overnight success, what's to stop someone in the ranks of Gen Z from creating the next big thing?

In a world that's become downright obsessed with technology and the next big thing, Shavitz is something of a technology anti-hero.

But what if the next big thing isn't so much a technology as it is a way of thinking about business — an angle of vision that promises to create new kinds of markets entirely?

It seems like everyone has an idea that they think is the next big thing, yet very few of those people ever take the steps to execute on it.

What kind of energy was required to turn on a dime and create a new approach to your product, or to let go of all the investment and attachment you had to your product's success and starting planning your next big thing?

The gist of the 50 - page The Wearable Future report: Wearables will be «the next big thing,» with some 130 million wearable devices expected to ship by 2018 — and the wearables industry on the whole forecast to gross nearly $ 6 billion, also by 2018.

While they search for the next big thing, one argument television manufacturers must confront is whether there's a future for big - screen TVs, given the growing preference of millennials to watch programming on their PC or tablets.

The Kickstarter - originated Oculus Rift has been generating buzz as the next big thing in gaming for a while now, while Sony has a habit of, shall we say, doing what the other guys are doing (PlayStation Move, anyone?).

While Google Glass is being touted as the next big thing in technology and much of the media has pulled out their pom - poms, here are a few reasons young entrepreneurs should wait to purchase the devic...

Will today's smartphone shoppers — ever in pursuit of the next big thing — be enticed by a product harkening back to the primitive devices of yore?

You've seen thousands of unreplaceable jobs lost, but you were lucky enough to note the next big thing and take action.

Universities are a great source of hungry and passionate people looking to get involved with the next big thing, or an opportunity to change the world.

In which case, get your fill of Netflix U.S. now because Unblock Us isn't going to be the next big thing.

No longer solely the purview of makers, technological tinkerers, expensive laboratories and tech geeks, 3 - D printing is quickly becoming the next big thing in technology, finding a significant foothold and making itself indispensible in industries ranging from medicine to tech accessories to farming.

Disruptive tech startups are being acquired at incredible rates — companies want to own a piece of the «next big thing» and they are throwing a lot of money around hoping to be part of the next big tech play.

I was asked to speak about the topic of «what is going on in the venture capital world and what is the next big thing after social networking?»

Not only does he have a keen ability to discover the «next big thing» before the rest of us would see it coming; more importantly, it's his approach to humanizing even the slightest of these technological advances that I feel truly sets him apart.

The next big thing may be a service that comes across as a bit unusual at first, but these are the kind of «brave new world» business proposals that we want to see.

The Creative Destruction Lab Rockies (CDL - Rockies) in the Haskayne School of Business wants to talk to researchers and graduate students who are working on potential «next big things» in science and technology that could be commercialized.

The pace of tech innovation is such that people often speculate on what The Next Big Thing will be.

But it's the absence, to this point, of a «next big thing» that has industry watchers questioning how Apple plans to continue its profitability streak.

I'm my happiest self when I have big stretches of time to spend on whatever I want without rushing to the next thing, so I stopped scheduling meetings outside of Mondays and Tuesdays.