Sentences with phrase «starting in a difficult environment»

Three of us started the company, we were first time software entrepreneurs, we were starting in a difficult environment in late 2000 when the Internet bubble had burst, we couldn't get funding, we were working without salaries and having no financial cushion... but almost in a linear fashion it just got better and better: more momentum, more customers, better culture, better technology.

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Starting up in challenging environments is obviously difficult, but the opportunities are often plentiful too.

The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.

The lack of touch pad implementation is surprising as the Vita's touch screen control scheme was pretty much perfected as it saw the cursor being replaced with icons and consisted of tapping on an icon to perform a particular action, interact with an object, start a conversation with a person in your group or to choose a response in a conversation, while dragging your finger around the touch screen would move Clementine around cover or exploring the environment as you search for supplies and people, so it is difficult to understand why such functionality could not have made the transition from the Vita to the DualShock 4 controller.

The lack of touch pad implementation is surprising as the Vita's touch screen control scheme was pretty much perfected as it saw the cursor being replaced with icons and consisted of tapping on an icon to perform a particular action, interact with an object, start a conversation with a person in your group or to choose a response in a conversation, while dragging your finger around the touch screen would move Lee around cover or exploring the environment and finding people, so it is difficult to understand why such functionality could not have made the transition from the Vita to the DualShock 4 controller.

«The Everything series is a project I started working on in 2003 when things in the United States for me personally, in my community and my social environment, were just extremely difficult.

But, for all of their inadequacies, the carbon and complementary policies are a start in a difficult political environment, one in which rising electricity prices (due mainly to over-investment in poles and wires) are the source of public angst.

This, said PwC, means firms will have to start make difficult choices about their futures now to ensure they remain relevant in a rapidly changing environment.

You may be asking yourself, why start in such a difficult and cluttered environment?

In a crowded or noisy environment, it's difficult to hear the person on the other line unless they start yelling — and even that's not enough sometimes.