We quickly realized we're the first mover in the space.
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In that sense, Singapore has a real first mover advantage.
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There may be a first-mover advantage in passing new laws.
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Wealthfront is the startup with first-mover advantage in this space.
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But they do not solve a second problem: first-mover disadvantage.
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Luckey disagrees that Facebook missed out on a first-mover advantage.
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We think we're a first mover in a lot of places.
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This is one first-mover advantage that may be worth billions.
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Anyone on the over/under that Intercom is the first-mover, here?
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You should register today and take advantage of our first-mover pricing.
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But having Uber as a first mover may be good for workers.
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And their first-mover advantage could dissipate if America clarifies its policy.
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This helps start-ups gain product adoption— and a first-mover advantage.
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Chung said Hyundai would lead the hydrogen society as a "first mover".
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Previously, everyone speculated that which professional league will be the first mover?
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And the first mover will get to set vital international norms and standards.
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Netflix may have such a large first-mover advantage that it doesn't matter.
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And when it comes to streaming, Netflix still has that first-mover advantage.
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PMI is enjoying a first mover advantage, particularly in Western Europe and Japan.
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First mover advantage is challenging to overcome, but at current pace, it's conceivable.
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And the reason is the first-mover advantage, the scale and the pioneering.
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China was a first mover in finally and effectively addressing this deflationary backdrop.
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And perhaps now is the moment to be first mover in that space.
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But we think its first-mover advantages are being eroded as competition intensifies.
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We think the first mover gets the advantage, and we're going to be it.
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It hasn't been discussed as a vulnerability, but rather as a first-mover advantage.
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That could also mean there is a first-mover advantage for banks to act.
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Bankers fear that abandoning distortions that create customer alienation could create "first-mover disadvantage".
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The first mover supplies the proof of concept, but it can't possibly own it.
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"We can be a first mover," said Maria Culp, spokesperson for the sportswear company.
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Policymakers must also consider the importance of the "first mover" advantage in technological development.
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"THE PRD WAS always the first mover in China," explains William Fung of Li & Fung.
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The key question is can Netflix's first-mover advantage/skill be replicated in other markets.
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GM is actually the first mover, launching its all-electric, 238-mile Bolt in December.
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The first-mover OEM could still be KTM and the first electric class the juniors.
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Other countries will capture the first-mover benefits and the spill-on effects of innovation.
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That first-mover advantage helped initiate the so-called cord-cutting and cord-never movements.
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Why it matters: Self-driving technology is not a first-mover, winner-take-all contest.
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And it's better for us to be the first mover than the last in this field.
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Being the first mover in declaring the emergency would give Trump a "tremendous advantage," Ackerman said.
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Although Overtime enjoys some first-mover advantage, it's not alone in satiating Gen Zers' sports appetite.
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First-mover advantage will prove increasingly powerful as this sector of the industry continues to grow.
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First-mover advantage, however, goes to Clare, which debuted last July, four months ahead of Backdrop.
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JPMorgan will have a leg up because of its size — and because it's a first mover.
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Moreover, the first mover has advantages and, all else being equal, their offer is given preference.
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There has always been a first-mover advantage to investors' pulling their money from a fund.
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This could be one reason HomeAway didn't capture more of the market, despite having first-mover advantage.
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"The computers themselves aren't ready, but early adopters are going to have first-mover advantage," he says.
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When it comes to regulating Big Tech, Europe had the "first-mover advantage," and it's keeping it.
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"And Apple is a first mover in taking advantage of these new laws and regulations," he said.
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First mover advantage can increase your odds of investment success — and does not confer an informational edge.
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Biggar said there is a "first-mover advantage" for Schwab in an industry that is fragmented today.
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It was the first mover in video streaming a decade ago and has 100 million global customers.
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As consumer and investor appetite for sustainable business choices increases, first-mover actions provide a commercial advantage.
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Code Commerce sold out last year, so if you're interested, register today, before the first-mover price expires.
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Sovereign investors have flocked to Asian start-ups this year in the hope of gaining first-mover advantage.
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The slow movement by corporate America, whatever the reason, cost the American robotics market its first-mover advantage.
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"Coinbase has a huge first-mover advantage, but you're seeing that these things don't live forever," he said.
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Code Commerce did sell out last year, so I'd recommend registering today before the first-mover price expires.
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For better or worse, other countries will learn from how cryptocurrencies are used in first-mover countries like Venezuela.
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There's the first-mover advantage in an industry that will be important to how we commute in the future.
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And even neat stuff like helping people virtually try on accessories (see: Warby Parker for a first mover there).
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Some qualitative factors are for real: first-mover advantage, products that are loved by consumers, and brand name recognition.
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The pharma industry was one of the earliest tech businesses and is one where first-mover advantage is real.
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In fact, the term used by Laserdisc owners is "laser rot," highlighting its first-mover importance in optical media.
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"Beyond Meat, right now, does have the first mover advantage," said Megan Brantley, vice president of research at LikeFolio.
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In others, the key factor can be first-mover advantages, brand recognition, or costs of entry for potential competitors.
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Heading into the shootout, there is a strong first-mover advantage for kickers, according to mathematical models and observations.
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They may not want to be the first mover, but it's in their interest to move with the herd.
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The addition also continues Amazon's first-mover advantage with the Echo by giving it new capabilities ahead of rivals.
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"Amazon now has a huge first-mover advantage," said Werner Goertz, an analyst at Gartner, the technology research firm.
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According to Kurz: Once an IT monopoly is established, it endows the company with the advantage of first mover.
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Those moves helped to establish Brussels as a global first-mover on tech regulation, as Washington largely stood still.
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BT: Yes, because I think autonomous is not any longer believed to be a market where the first [mover] wins.
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Therefore, first-mover enterprise vendors such as Airware and Kespry built their own hardware in addition to the software ecosystem.
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Some investors had been concerned that Netflix could lose its first-mover advantage in an increasingly competitive digital content market.
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It has a large first mover advantage but it is definitely not as advanced as new technologies that are emerging.
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While there can be value in capturing the "first-mover" label — namely differentiating yourself from competitors — there are also pitfalls.
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He said it is reasonable for GM to take 10 percent share of the market given its "first mover" advantage.
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Remember, too, Colonna added, companies that gain "first mover advantage" don't necessarily succeed long-term (see Myspace, GeoCities and AOL).
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Wendy's may be a first mover in the spicy-chicken-sandwich category, but it hasn't kept up with the times.
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Alongside New York, California is often looked to as a first-mover on measures to ensure equality in the workplace.
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The app ecosystem is still in its infancy stage, which makes it a ripe opportunity to establish first-mover advantage.
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So, having a first mover advantage is beneficial because we hope to become engaged in their lives and business already.
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GM executives have touted a "first-mover advantage" in autonomous vehicles and have made ambitious financial projections for the industry.
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"Nvidia's first-mover advantage coupled with the sheer size of the market will lead to positive EPS revisions," he wrote.
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"If McDonald's eventually launches in the U.S., it does eat away some at Burger King's first-mover advantage," Yarbrough said.
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"The first mover advantage means they've got the bulk of people who are interested in driving a car," he said.
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Two complementary programs — Next Generation 911 (NG21625) and FirstNet — are reaching the implementation stage in "first mover" public safety departments.
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Most probably, these founders are facing more challenges to build their companies and lower odds for success that the first mover.
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Companies that have the first-mover advantage are the ones that can take the leadership and take it to another level.
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When asked if it's a very capital intensive business, Achuthan said they needed the money to get a first-mover advantage.
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The first mover is Britain's Hybrid Air Vehicles, which hopes to fly its Airlander at the Farnborough Air Show in July.
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I think the Lite[coin] market is probably going to be less deep than bitcoin because of the first-mover advantage.
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Yes, it still has the first mover advantage and it still benefits from the unknown identity of its elusive founder, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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As we discussed above, there is huge opportunity to be a first mover in areas like autonomous vehicles and commercial drone usage.
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The NFL's first-mover advantage might soon be enhanced by establishing a permanent team in London, which could be formed by 173.
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Mobileye — The maker of autonomous car technology was rated "buy" at Needham, which said the company has a significant first mover advantage.
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And while first-mover advantage is helpful in the early stages, it usually doesn't mean much in the long run (e.g. Myspace).
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Bitcoin has the first-mover advantage, but that quickly wears off when everyone else is leaner, faster, and more efficient than you.
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Finally, trade associations can keep a check on individual companies trying to attain first mover advantage, at least in a regulatory sense.
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Spotify was a first mover in streaming and now manages a massive cloud-based distribution network that hosts the content from musicians.
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Baader Helvea analysts said winning a "first mover advantage" in the indication would likely eventually add $1.5 billion to Roche's Tecentriq sales.
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Also, a lot of people believe they have to be first to market, but the first-mover advantage is mostly a myth.
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As the first mover in the motorcycle-taxi industry, Pathao quickly gained popularity by allowing people to conveniently and economically beat congestion.
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Winning strategies are adopted by others, market inefficiencies are suddenly the province of late-arriving copycats, and the first-mover advantage disappears.
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Berenberg began coverage of the online home goods retailer and said the company's first-mover advantages are being eroded by intensifying competition.
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The important thing was to avoid a situation in which one side attacked so as to offset the other's perceived first-mover advantage.
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Apple is known to only launch a product when it's good and ready rather than rushing to capitalize on any first-mover advantage.
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One policy adviser notes that GW Pharmaceuticals has an enormous first-mover advantage, having emerged from the process with a number of patents.
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If that happened, no state would want to be the first mover, even if most of the states would prefer to expand coverage.
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Still Cakarel said he is up for the challenge and is hoping its first-mover advantage and exclusive content will put it ahead.
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With the caveat that it "depends on your definition of won," Beck did not shy away from noting the company's first mover advantage.
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Baader Helvea analysts have said a potential "first-mover advantage" in small cell lung cancer could add $1.5 billion to Tecentriq's peak sales.
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My hope is that we will be able to look back on this case as an early, first mover of a changing jurisprudence.
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The first-mover advantage in 28500G will be substantial, positioning the victor to enjoy a decade of technological dominance and rapid economic growth.
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First-mover advantage goes to the mobile app companies that first bundle into a single compelling package information density, content access and mobility.
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"We don't want to make it such a high hurdle," he said, "that our exclusivity prevents us from being a first mover here."
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"We do not need to be the first mover to win," says Wish of the incredible competition from other prescription drug providers online.
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Baader Helvea analysts have said a "first-mover advantage" in small cell lung cancer for Roche could add $1.5 billion to Tecentriq's peak sales.
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GM was able to grab first-mover status when it released the Chevy Bolt, a $23,22016, 235-mile-per-charge, electric vehicle, last December.
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The data shows that Netflix is still holding on to its first-mover advantage in the increasingly competitive subscription video-on-demand service market.
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As its role increases in the years to come, first-mover leagues and teams will generate more revenue and fill more seats than laggards.
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" Sam Jaffe, co-founder and managing director of Cairn Energy Research Advisors, flagged Tesla's powerful first-mover advantage: "Tesla has a lead in technology.
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"They are all gearing up so they have a first-mover advantage once conditions are right," says Kim Byung-yeon of Seoul National University.
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Hellobike remains an underdog in the game, but it has a first-mover advantage in a largely untapped market for aspiring small-town customers.
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But analysts have said China Mobile enjoys first-mover advantage in money-spinning and fast-growing 4G services offering much faster data transmission speeds.
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Uber gained first-mover advantage by introducing its business model, which relies on enlisting drivers to shuttle around passengers, complementing it with big subsidies.
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Meanwhile, Airtel has been trying to take the first mover advantage by luring customers with promises of better call quality and higher data speed.
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"Frankly I don't think we should be the first mover as a nation to do this," Harker said at a community banking conference here.
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Netflix had the first-mover advantage in the industry, with substantial growth in both subscribers and revenue since it rolled out streaming in 2011.
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As a first mover in the development of 4G networks, the United States set the standard and reaped great advantages from that leadership position.
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Savvy outfits, however, will look beyond the current diplomatic imbroglio and consider the first-mover advantage and long-term value of investing in Cuba.
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Amazon, like any good first-mover, reliably delivered more capabilities, at lower prices, in more regions, and just kept gobbling up more of the market.
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With significant footprint and unprecedented ability to inject systems data, they are mighty systems of record (SORs) with first-mover advantage in systems of intelligence.
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We can miss the round of financing, we can start a company a year or two behind someone else and lose the first-mover advantage.
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First-mover advantage in 25G will have far more dramatic consequences, due to the exponential growth of objects that would be connected to the internet.
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"I think they have a tremendous first-mover advantage," said Mesdag, who thinks iRobot would be a great acquisition for one of the Big Three.
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""The value of bitcoin is related to a narrative that it was the first — first-mover advantage — and something about the genius of Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Xiaomi has also got the first mover advantage that helps its products create a bigger impact than offerings by its rivals like Lenovo and Huawei.
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AWS, for instance, is trying to turn its first-mover advantage into more momentum with those larger customers, which now includes Volkswagen and the NFL.
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Casper may have capitalized early on with its first-mover advantage, but it now has to contend with several competitors with a similar business model.
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Wayfair – Berenberg rates the online home goods retailer as a "sell" in new coverage, saying Wayfair's first-mover advantages are being eroded by intensifying competition.
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That delay erased what would have been a significant first-mover advantage over Disney and others in the race to get 70 million streaming service subscribers.
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" The challenge, says Steven Davidoff Solomon, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, is that "it takes time and you need a first mover.
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Recently, he penned this piece on the first mover advantage in startup fundraising and this one on the best times of year to seek venture capital.
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Though the issue does not hurt Samsungs balance sheet, the postponement damages the firms efforts to portray itself as an innovative first-mover, analysts have said.
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I think we are such leaders as it relates to this space that we've got to make sure that we take advantage of first-mover advantage.
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc, which has a rival drug in late-stage development, now has a substantial first-mover advantage, Chardan Capital Markets' analysts said on Thursday.
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Everybody hates the "service" and "fulfillment" and other fees that get tacked on to ticket prices, but no one can afford to be the first mover.
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Since it's lost the first-mover advantage, the company boasts that it's taking a more thoughtful tack that sets it apart from its better-funded competitors.
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And the company no longer enjoys the kind of first mover advantage it had when it launched with its free-to-use trading platform years ago.
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AmazonThe e-commerce titan had a significant first-mover advantage with the Amazon Echo, which enabled it to set the pace for the smart speaker market.
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Microsoft is hoping Google's first-mover advantage will be nullified by the expected confusion around payments, features, titles and other issues Stadia is still working out.
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Though the issue does not hurt Samsung's balance sheet, the postponement damages the firm's efforts to portray itself as an innovative first-mover, analysts have said.
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So big brands are trying to get first-mover advantage; they're not waiting for shopping to get off the ground before they start their voice strategies.
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The deluge of information gives Wimbledon's digital team of editors insight into how to tune their approach, giving them a first-mover advantage around where to focus.
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You've probably heard about "first mover advantage:" If you're the first entrant into a market, you can capture significant market share while competitors scramble to get started.
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The IRS' decision will likely bring in a flood of new customers to 23andMe, especially since the company enjoys a first-mover advantage in the DTC space.
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"Being first out of the gate may offer some first-mover advantages," said Randy Gerardes, director of municipal securities research for Wells Fargo Securities in New York.
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First-mover advantage, brand recognition and massive content spend on original programming will almost certainly keep Netflix as an essential part of an average consumer's streaming package.
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But Netflix, which is seen as having first-mover advantage, has continued to expand internationally, and this will be the key for it holding its leadership position.
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The Bayer-Monsanto tie-up has sparked criticism from environmentalists and some farming groups concerned about its market power and first mover advantage in digital farming data.
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But as in the case of many prior breakthrough technologies, the transformation will indeed be disruptive and extremely important even if the first mover fails to survive.
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But India also risked losing the advantage of first-mover, letting China and the U.S. set rules with their best interest in mind, according to Hindustan Times.
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Therefore, for the United States, legal sports betting just begun; we can also foresee that there will be more sports leagues to join the first mover team.
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It's not necessarily that bitcoin goes up, it's more just associated with Square being a first mover.... The question is, will they allow merchants to accept it?
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South Korea was the first mover into Vietnam, and has met with success, with investments dating from the 1990s focuing on labor-intensive manufacturing projects, Torné noted.
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The NAWSA had to remain institutionally focused on securing constitutional female suffrage until it was a done deal, ceding first mover advantage to the parties' women's organizations.
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Squad will have to hope first-mover advantage and focus can defeat a screensharing feature bolted on to apps with hundreds of millions or even billions of users.
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"Being a first mover does not constitute a long-term position," he said, pointing to Blue Apron as an example of another hyped startup in the food industry.
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Pandora once had a first-mover advantage, but that decayed when it ignored the competition, letting Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and others develop robust ecosystems of their own.
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Aggressive Medium-Term Expansion: Lippo plans to continue expanding its hospital portfolio outside of Jakarta, in a bid to gain a first-mover advantage in its targeted geographies.
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But BK Asset Management's Boris Schlossberg argues that while Netflix might not have the extensive backlog of content that competitors have, it does have a first-mover advantage.
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The enterprise successes so far have largely benefited from first-mover advantage, and now face increasing competition from new entrants providing incrementally better solutions at slightly lower prices.
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What really matters is generating cash flows in the future, so being the first mover doesn't do you any good if someone else comes along and unseats you.
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Companies with a bias for purpose-driven action are the ones likely to secure the first mover advantage and grasp the greater share of the SDG business opportunity.
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The market winner will go to the first mover that can execute without bumping into numerous challenges that include regulations, pricing wars, maintenance issues, bike theft and vandalism.
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"This may mean that there will be first-mover advantages, or it could mean that the market is so fragmented that there will be many players," Sury added.
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Ofo landed in India earlier this year and local Uber rival Ola started a service on a small scale last year, so Mobike isn't the first mover here.
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FR: The first mover advantage is certainly beneficial because from these warungs' perspective, it's a hassle for them to engage with a lot of people compared to online.
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Lyft was the first in a wave of high-profile tech companies to go public in 232.65, beating even first-mover Uber to market with its March IPO.
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As one of the largest luxury re-sale marketplaces, REAL is a brand destination with numerous first-mover competitive advantages in a large market that exhibits accelerating growth.
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However, the company has ambitious plans to grow its IP portfolio more rapidly to sustain its first-mover advantage of developing malls in newer neighbourhoods and smaller cities.
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It's the now familiar management idea known as "first-mover advantage," which dates from the dot-com gold rush of the late 1990s, and it still works sometimes.
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Crothers also sees a first-mover advantage domestically on labor costs, noting that a construction slowdown in Alberta's oil sands is allowing LNG Canada good access to skilled workers.
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Pinduoduo, an emerging e-commerce startup that's close on the heels of Alibaba and JD, gained a first-mover advantage in these less-developed regions by touting cheap goods.
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While Twitch also has a first-mover advantage as the most popular streaming site in the world, it also needs to convince consumers that it's for more than games.
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Given their reputation as the "bad boys" of the on-demand economy, Uber is a somewhat surprising first mover on supporting worker organizations paving the way for portable benefits.
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"Hybrid" became a household word, and as gas prices rose in the 2000s and SUVs slipped in popularity, the Prius had the first-mover advantage to end them all.
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Additionally, all the First Mover firms said their top business priority was advancing women to leadership positions, compared to only 9 percent of other companies that said the same.
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"Apple's first-mover advantage and "easy growth" from new smartphone adopters is over, but the company appears likely to retain its existing premium customer base," analysts at Morningstar said.
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Firms that apply the EU standards in other markets, like North America, could position themselves with a first-mover advantage in adopting global best practices for data privacy standards.
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Though the issue does not hurt Samsung's balance sheet, the postponement damages the firm's effort to showcase itself as an innovative first mover, not a fast follower, analysts said.
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The IBM study found these so-called "First Mover" organizations had four things in common: They created career planning targeted to women's requirements and aspirations, which include family commitments.
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CBOE already accounts for about a fifth of share trading in EU shares, and Haynes said he was not worried that the U.S. rival will gain first mover advantage.
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Pattern bargaining conveys 'first-mover advantages' to the lead company where they can craft an agreement that is advantageous to them but more difficult for one of their competitors.
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While Tesla faces a lot of challenges, investor and early Facebook employee Chamath Palihapitiya said the company's first-mover advantage in electric cars will give it a long-term advantage.
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TIM has long been seen as a takeover target because it is smaller than many of its European rivals and it has first-mover advantage in Italy's ultrafast broadband market.
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Still, Alibaba's first mover advantage means it has better understanding of the demands and buying behaviour of local customers, as well as its existing relationships with logistics vendors, she said.
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That mirrors the struggles of ClassPass, which pioneered this model, certainly shows that it isn't easy to succeed in with fitness subscriptions, even with a brand and first-mover advantage.
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A similar concept is the "first-mover advantage, " a market strategy term defined as the advantage gained when an organization is the first to market in a new product category.
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The auto industry is changing at an unprecedented pace right now, and if CES has taught me anything over the years, it's that the first-mover advantage doesn't mean much.
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After launching its first service a decade ago, AWS has dominated by virtue of being a first mover, but competition has toughened recently as Microsoft and Google strengthen their offerings.
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We believe that TSLA should have raised capital in the 33H18 and eschewed near-profitability to press its first-mover advantage & grow as quickly as possible in 19 and 20.
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While a U.S. approval would have given BioMarin first-mover advantage in the market, a European approval is perhaps more significant as the drug will target a larger patient population.
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Those global firms bring some services to the table that no Indian company rivals, but they're even gaining traction in categories in which domestic firms had a first-mover advantage.
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"Roku had first mover advantage, the channels like them and they are a very lean company, all positive," Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, wrote in an email.
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It suggests that Amazon's first-mover advantage may be finally coming to end after originally holding a two-year lead over Google, which launched the original Google Home in late 2016.
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MGX seeks to keep capital expenditure low and to maximize what Lazerson says is first-mover advantage by using small nanofiltration units that can be moved to wherever the brine is.
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Telecom Italia has long been seen as a takeover target because it is smaller than many of its European rivals and it has first-mover advantage in Italy's ultrafast broadband market.
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Two years may seem like a while, but the Zoomcar CEO is confident that building a business in India stands Zoomcar in good stead even if others take first mover advantage.
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It won't be the only mass-market, all-electric, 2215-mile sedan on the market — GM grabbed first-mover status in December, when it began selling its 20-mile Chevy Bolt.
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The first-mover advantage in this space is mind-bogglingly large, as these firms effectively compete to own what will be the most important infrastructure in the 21st-century global economy.
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The shipping channel that straddles the Texas-Louisiana border is already home to the Sabine Pass LNG terminal operated by Cheniere, the first mover in the emerging Gulf Coast export hub.
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Even though deals are most likely years away, said the first source, "first mover advantage allows you to lock up the relationship, lock up the contracts, lock up the supply chains".
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She started six years ago and believed she had a first-mover advantage, "I definitely think it'd be really hard to break in now, because it's so saturated," she told CNBC.
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Up until the second quarter of last year, those firms had relatively uninterrupted access to capital, leading to unfettered growth and acquisitions with the aim of securing a first-mover advantage.
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We believe that the company has a first-mover advantage in a highly regulated market environment, especially as it is the only German manufacturing and trading company in the European market.
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"Excitement around iQOS continues to be a hallmark of the PM story, as the company continues to capitalize on their first-mover advantage in Heat-Not-Burn," wrote Azer last month.
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"Despite increasing competition in the space, I feel PayPal [has] the first-mover advantage and that should be enough for them to remain relevant for a long long time," he said.
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Investors should buy Grubhub due its market dominance, first-mover advantage and future growth potential, according to Wedbush Securities, which initiated coverage of the internet food ordering company with an outperform rating.
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Crop dusting alone is a $1.5 billion business in the US. But with employees from Zee airplanes and Google's Waymo, Pyka aims to become a first-mover in self-flying personal planes.
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It also says it wants to "minimize the risk of excessive first-mover advantage" — arguing this benefits large companies — by "requiring a more transparent process for the establishment of public-private arrangements".
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But as the clock ticks down, she said Canadian companies are losing whatever first-mover advantage they may have had because of strict rules limiting brands from touting their advantages over rivals.
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The move was a success and the company decided last year to roll out cash across Asia and Latin America as Uber raced to make the most of a first-mover advantage.
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LIUZHOU, China (Reuters) - General Motors has enjoyed first-mover advantage in China's cheap, no-frills car market as foreign rivals focused on selling higher-end cars in the country's wealthier mega-cities.
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Some of Home Depot's key advantages include its "favourable store footprint and differentiated supply chain, as well as its first-mover advantages in key growth areas (omni-channel, Pro customer)," Hudson added.
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"The first-mover advantage for (Amgen and Novartis) will allow for them to frame the payer discussions and gain initial traction in the marketplace," Vamil Divan of Credit Suisse wrote to investors.
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A first-mover advantage will help, but it's easy to see a lot of other services integrating Slack into their core processes themselves, or other copycat bots emerging on the Slack platform.
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She has pledged to mobilise 1 trillion euros in investments over the next decade to help EU firms cut emissions while boosting jobs and gaining a first-mover advantage in new technologies.
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Investors have been placing a higher stock valuation on Amazon as the first mover, early patent holder, but their patent is based upon getting products to staging points like warehouses or trucks.
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Going forward, management intends to continue to focus on the three investment segments in which it has a competitive/first-mover advantage and developed an investment track-record, which Fitch views positively.
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"Infrastructure links, close banking ties and established working relationships mean that South African businesses recognize their unique first-mover advantage over Western competitors in capitalizing on early entry into Zimbabwe," Laurie detailed.
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"This could provide them with a strong perspective on Africa, and a first-mover advantage in a market that will likely be very dominant in payments over the next decades," Dolev said.
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As a pioneer in the space, Sidecar had the first-mover advantage, but Uber ended up being the dominant player in the category by using what are now euphemistically called "aggressive" tactics.
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It does much better when it comes to coverage (subscribers get an LTE signal 81 percent of the time — seventh best in the world), but it's still suffering from the first mover disadvantage.
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Adelson, the first mover into Macau's Cotai strip - once a dusty stretch of reclaimed land which now teems with glitz and cavernous gambling halls - said the market in Macau was continuing to recover.
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While Uber has pursued a strategy of global domination and (over the years) spending and launching aggressively to gain first-mover advantage in a number of markets, Bolt has done nearly the opposite.
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Venmo is capitalizing on their first-mover advantage in P2P payments to expand to merchant services, and Klarna is growing steadily through the promise of frictionless and smooth payments — both online and offline.
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Other schools can try to replicate Harbaugh's strategy, but Michigan has the first-mover advantage and seems to have snagged an optimal spot in sunny Florida, near a lot of high-end recruits.
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Sydbank analyst Mikkel Emil Jensen, who said the bank's results were in line with expectations, foresaw a "new wave" of rate policies in the Danish finance sector spurred by first mover Jyske Bank.
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Western policymakers have warned that if China wins the race to fully deploy next-generation wireless technology nationwide, it would have first-mover advantage to exert influence over the broader global 25G industry.
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The US will be a late mover, not a first mover, which is actually, I think, unfortunate because it means that people in the US government are less influential in the global conversation.
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But, while Amazon is one of the most visible programs, Loop said Alphabet's Wing unit has a first mover advantage and international experience, already working with retailers in the U.S., Australia and Finland.
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"Washington and Lee has a direct tie and they have a responsibility to be the first mover when it comes to addressing history and figure out ways to better contextualize it," Stroud said.
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It gives the company a first-mover advantage in being present on the most popular social messaging app in China, amid a steady push of foreign financial firms into the world's second-largest economy.
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"We're obviously trying to get first-mover advantage," Constellation Chief Executive Rob Sands told the Wall Street Journal, adding that he expects cannabis to be legalized nationwide in the United States in coming years.
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Polis told CNBC's Scott Cohn that its first mover advantage in the cannabis business will be key to developing a much broader economic engine for the state than just tax revenue on marijuana sales.
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For one, Pinduoduo has something of a first-mover advantage - its scale, critical to secure good discounts, plus existing partnerships with the likes of Tencent and its WeChat messaging network, are hard to replicate.
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Whereas his trials with academy teams have shown that the new method narrows the first-mover advantage to 54%, the fairest option is the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence (ABBABAAB), which cuts it to 51%.
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Amazon's cloud business is already more than a $10 billion business annually, and that first-mover advantage has served it well as it began a huge shift to how businesses operate on cloud servers.
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"While STZ (Constellation) is paying a rich premium ... we believe this was the right move and further solidifies STZ's first-mover advantage ...," Bonnie Herzog, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo, said in a note.
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None seemed particularly consequential on its own, but with a real estate deal last week, Amazon appears to have captured first-mover advantage in one of the most important new industries on the planet.
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AWS still has the advantage of being the first-mover in the market, given that in its early days, it was the only choice for large companies that wanted to move to the cloud.
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"Separately we note NVDA's first mover advantage and growing influence in the multi trillion $ healthcare industry where AI/deep learning is being used for predictive analytics, image scanning and pathology assessments," the analyst wrote.
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"We think GM's ability to integrate an autonomous electric vehicle into a ride hailing fleetand/or shared fleet, with the overlay of OnStar, puts the company in a uniquecompetitive first mover position, " he wrote.
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"With this approval, Celltrion has entered the United States, the world's biggest Rituxan market, as the first mover and expects to gain a fairly early edge in the market," Celltrion said in a statement.
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WhatsApp benefited from being a first mover — all the other early leaders in Western markets are nowhere to be seen today — and Facebook Messenger is built on top of the world's most popular social network.
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Renault, a first-mover in the current generation of electric cars with alliance partner Nissan, has its own prototype two-stroke range extender and no intention of using it, according to a senior alliance engineer.
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It was the first mover in the business of selling data storage and computing power in the cloud, a bet that continues to reap rewards and give it the leeway to invest in grand projects.
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It was the first mover in this regard amongst the new crop of "fee-free" trading apps in the U.K., though others, including Netherlands-based Bux and now Robinhood, have since taken the same path.
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In other words, although the likes of Google, Microsoft, Apple and maybe more also want to flood our homes with voice-powered speakers, the first mover is still bringing in its own tsunami of buyers.
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AND WE CONTINUE TO SEE THAT GROWTH, AND I THINK WE'RE NOT ONLY A FIRST MOVER IN A LOT OF AREAS, AND INNOVATOR IN A LOT OF AREAS, BUT ALSO WE HAVE THE BEST EXPERIENCE.
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Tech investors and entrepreneurs talk a lot about the so-called first-mover advantage — the idea that startups can get a leg up on the competition by launching their product or service before their rivals.
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This year, they have also stepped up pitching their businesses to European funds at conferences and road shows, betting their size and first-mover advantage will help replace fickle retail investors with more stable institutions.
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Snap has held advanced talks to open an office in Saudi Arabia, positioning the social media company to be a first-mover in the country among its peers, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
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"While Merck is unlikely to durably penetrate this entire population, especially with multiple competing regimens on the horizon, an approval in May would give them a significant first-mover advantage," said Evercore analyst John Scotti.
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That indicates both the limits of what China can do on a global level, and how its first-mover status in a highly uncertain pandemic may offer a blueprint for the rest of the world.
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Any first-mover advantage Pandora once had has long since dwindled, as rivals including Spotify and Apple Music have become the dominant forces in an industry where consumer habits change faster than the Billboard charts.
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Competition in the sector has become less cut-throat as companies roll back profit-damaging subsidies, which in turn has allowed Meituan to capitalise on its first-mover advantage over rivals in China's smaller cities.
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Didi has proven to be a formidable opponent for Uber in the past, but Uber has the first-mover advantage and a lot to lose in Latin America especially as it prepares to go public.
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Because they had the infrastructure in place, the re-fueling infrastructure in place and this is kind of a first mover advantage to do it – to having it because you're not going to overbuild their infrastructure.
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Notably, some technological fields give a "first-mover advantage" that offers huge rewards to countries or businesses that take an early lead, allowing them to set standards that later entrants have little choice but to follow.
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First-movers may have a low MAP to enter a new category, but once they have created a category and lead it, the minimum bar for future entrants is to equal or exceed the first mover.
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The camera is aimed at professional content makers such as filmmakers and broadcasters wanting to expand their output into a nascent format — with Nokia pushing for a first mover advantage in the professional production VR space.
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Whether it's due to first-mover influence or the fact that Hollywood settles on its favorites earlier than the Oscars want you to believe, the Golden Globes have become a remarkable bellwether for the Academy Awards.
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We use Uber because of pure inertia, because of its first mover status, because its app is slightly less clunky than its local competitors, because it has substantial political clout, because its rides are (temporarily) subsidized.
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The CME has first-mover advantage, but the LME is the generator of the underlying aluminium price, making it a logical one-stop market for those wanting to trade both components of the "all-in" price.
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"The U.S. will likely not be the first mover on a centralized digital currency, but will want to have the tech ready once the kinks and pitfalls have been worked out by someone else," he added.
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It seems inconceivable that AWS can continue to hold sway over such a large market for so long, but as we've pointed out before, it has been able to maintain its position through true first-mover advantage.
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If they are not bought into submission by the first mover, some of the most famous copycats reinvented the original and made it better: Mercado Libre is much more relevant in the e-commerce space than eBay .
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"Now that Netflix has got more and more into this [content production] and away from being a content distributor — and they were a first mover and had some advantages — it gets more and more difficult," he said.
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"While Paddy Power Betfair has significant first mover advantage in the US, we caution that, especially post the recent re-rating, it is very much a long-term value driven strategy," said Investec analysts in a note.
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But Uber today also represents the worst of Silicon Valley, modern business, and capitalism: Its first mover status has conferred it a too-big-to-fail status that it doesn't deserve and that we no longer need.
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Gogo – Raymond James began coverage on the in-flight internet service company with an "outperform" rating, pointing to its growth prospects, move to positive free cash flow, its first-mover advantage, and reasonable valuation, among other factors.
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CME had first-mover status in the ferrous space but its hot-rolled coil contract saw volumes slide 8 percent last year, while its scrap contract saw only minimal activity and its billet contract none at all.
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The company already has $300,000 in backing from private investors, according to its Crowdfunder page, but is looking for $1 million to $2 million more to meet market demand and keep its first-mover advantage, Matthews said.
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Containers were barely a thing back then, but the founders had a vision of what was coming down the pike and their bet has paid off in a big way as the company now has first-mover advantage.
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The world of cryptocurrencies is a completely new market that doesn't adhere to rules that apply to other markets, but I don't recall a case where a disruptive first mover came ahead by being slower than everyone else.
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"Our concern is that, of course, if China is the first mover in 5G that they will be able to draw some of that capital, some of that talent and ultimately some of that innovation to their shores."
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Its name has become synonymous with ride-hailing thanks to rapid expansion that its advocates put down to "first-mover advantage" and network effects, or the belief that it will become more valuable as more people use it.
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But while most say fully self-driving cars are still a decade away, Musk is telling investors they'll be here by next year and that Tesla will have first mover advantage with a million robotaxis on the road.
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Competition in China's food delivery sector has become less cut-throat as companies roll back profit-damaging subsidies, which in turn has allowed Meituan to capitalise on its first-mover advantage over rivals in the country's smaller cities.
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Competition in China's food delivery sector has become less cut-throat as companies roll back profit-damaging subsidies, which in turn has allowed Meituan to capitalise on its first-mover advantage over rivals in the country's smaller cities.
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"AWS has benefited from a first-mover advantage in the cloud market and has sustained growth at scale over the last two years," KeyBanc Capital Markets analysts led by Edward Yruma wrote in a note to clients on Monday.
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Why it matters: Those findings, according to a report out today by research firm Analysys Mason, will give some comfort to those who've been wringing their hands about falling behind China in the competition for the first-mover advantage.
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It has the first-mover advantage and an air of mystery due to its creator's anonymity, but it sorely needs movement on the development front or some good news from regulators for the price to start moving upwards again.
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So that really means I always want to be a first mover in anything I do, and for this particular case as you just stated a lot of these brands are used to doing mega mansions or mega museums.
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And as long as we can stay ahead, we have technology ahead, we're first mover, we get launched ... You'll hear us announce next year, our goal next year is to be in 20 countries before the end of '19.
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Evolving landscapeWall Street's largest banks are starting to figure out how to develop relationships within the nascent — but expanding — industry in a bid for first-mover advantage if or when US federal law prompts the market to open up.
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In addition to the raft of take private deals, add-on deals and refinancings are also on the menu, and bankers are ready to act fast to secure a first mover advantage for their deals to avoid market congestion.
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With today's announcement, the EU has scored the first-mover advantage, says Chris Padilla, IBM's VP for government and regulatory affairs, as it did with GDPR, the landmark privacy bill that has changed the way Big Tech does business in Europe.
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"Even if technical hurdles can be overcome, Tesla has significant first-mover advantage, especially in terms of branding and share of mind as an innovator in the industry," said James Chao, Asia-Pacific managing director of consulting firm IHS Automotive.
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It has dominated the market for so long partly because it had first-mover advantage and schools are "unsophisticated buyers", says Jonathan Simons of Policy Exchange, a think-tank, and because plenty of schools are not ambitious with their data.
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"The day reinforced to us GM's first-mover advantage and the opportunity ahead in mobility — leading us to reiterate our view that GM is due for a multiple re-rating," analyst Brian Johnson wrote in a note to clients Friday.
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"The U.S. hasn't really been paying attention to sustainable sources of superiority in AI, so China could develop a first-mover advantage that would be sustainable," Gregory Allen, a senior fellow at CNAS and co-author of the report, tells Axios.
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Read More: The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money But PEI Green Party leader Peter Bevan-Baker, first mover on the motion, has ideas for basic income that differ substantially from the planned trial in Ontario, and others around the world.
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Samsung (SSNLF) has first mover advantage when it comes to smartphones that run on the new high-speed networks, beating its rivals to the punch when it rolled out the Galaxy S25 25G for Verizon customers in May last year.
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"Many Tesla owners may never return to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars and while many would consider other competitive electric vehicle (EV) offerings, most appear to be relatively loyal to Tesla, underscoring Tesla's first mover advantage," Sacconaghi said in the note.
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Just Eat said the higher Prosus offer failed to reflect the quality of the company, the benefits of first mover advantage in a consolidating sector and the upside available to shareholders through remaining invested in Just Eat and the Takeaway.
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Just Eat said the higher Prosus offer failed to reflect the quality of the company, the benefits of first mover advantage in a consolidating sector and the upside available to shareholders through remaining invested in Just Eat and the Takeaway.
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In 1986, Nucor's CEO Kenneth Iverson had to make a critical decision on whether or not to adopt a new steel casting technology that would allow the company to gain significant first-mover advantage and reduce costs in the long run.
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"What it could allow is just the folks who got rich off of private prisons to just roll over and then get even richer on the legalization of marijuana by getting a first mover advantage with their existing capital," she said.
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Johnson, who replaced Howard Schultz as Starbucks chief executive in April 2017, said he expects the company to be able to repeat last quarter's growth in China due to what he described as "a first-mover advantage" in the Asian giant.
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It's a complicated landscape for consumers right now, as reflected by the features chosen as "very important" when picking a voice-controlled smart speaker: Obviously price is king, which partly explains why Amazon is doing so well, outside its first-mover advantage.
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When new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi last week told the troops not to expect an IPO until at least 18 months from now, it sparked an interesting question: Should Lyft accelerate its own IPO plans, in order to gain a first-mover advantage?
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Samsung has first mover advantage when it comes to smartphones that run on the new high-speed networks, beating its rivals to the punch when it rolled out the Galaxy S10 5G for Verizon customers in the United States in May last year.
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Ask yourself whether your product solves a real problem faced by millions of people (the market size); whether people or companies will pay to use it (your business model); and whether you are the first-mover or have proprietary technology (competitive advantage).
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Put in context, those numbers alone don't have a significant bearing on the Lyft-Uber battle for New York, but it's a clear indicator that New York riders and drivers have warmed up to the pink-mustachioed ride-hailing company despite Uber's first-mover advantage.
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"To me, this is an important strategic alliance for the Mahindra Group, one that I believe will change the contours of our industry, while giving us the first mover advantage in the fast growing Sharing Economy of India," said Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group.
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Kasikorn, which was founded in 1945 and is one of Thailand's major banks, is calling the fund Beacon — think lights on top of lighthouses — and it is aimed at giving the firm first-mover advantage on global tech through startups based in Thailand and overseas.
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J.P Morgan is betting that its first-mover status and large market share in corporate payments — it banks 80 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 — will give its technology a good chance of getting adopted, even if other banks create their own coins.
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"New Jersey has a incredible opportunity to have a first-mover advantage in the Northeast, particularly the overflow they would likely experience from New York because of the extremely restrictive medical market there," said Derek Peterson, CEO of Terra Tech, a marijuana agriculture company.
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Though Bird and Lime compete neck-and-neck, largely using scooters from the same China-based manufacturing company, Bird's first-mover advantage, plus VanderZanden's history with the company, may be enough to seal the deal in this case — at least as of this moment.
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While PokitDok is a 6-year old startup with over $48 million in funding, Tanner believes his company can drive this technology, partly because of the consortium of powerful companies it's built behind it, but also because it's a first mover with an operating solution.
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But with rival plant-based meat producers - from Impossible Foods, to Kellogg Co's Morningstar Farms, or Nestle SA's Sweet Earth - vying for shelf space at retailers and deals with food service outlets, analysts say the company is at risk of losing its first mover advantage.
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The long-awaited FDA decision is a shot in the arm to Roche's aspirations of boosting Tecentriq sales in earlier lines of lung cancer treatment, but first-mover advantage of Merck's Keytruda has dented the medicine's prospects in one of cancer treatment's most-lucrative segments.
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"Chattanooga and other cities were perhaps wise to get a first-mover advantage in stealing businesses from other cities, but as the deployment of fiber networks becomes more pervasive the first- or early-mover advantages of cities with municipal broadband networks is diminished," he wrote.
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"The opportunity to be the first mover in creating super premium short form content made exclusively for mobile, and to do it at this type of scale with this type of partner ... I can't tell you how excited we are about the possibilities," Robbins told Mashable.
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Maybe it should have been a sign that the competition was going to be tough and first-mover advantage might not matter all that much: During the roadshow for meal-kit delivery service Blue Apron's IPO in June 2017, Amazon announced it was acquiring Whole Foods Market.
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I think a good example of that is a company like Google, they got in, they started winning and they took it to another level, and the complete opposite is MySpace in social media — had the first-mover advantage but they totally screwed it up, right?
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Beyond a possible first-mover advantage in the U.K., he says it will all come down to who provides the best user experience and unlocks the most value for customers, value that currently resides in a customer's own financial data spread across a growing number of apps.
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But although the Ford Motor Co. successfully created a mass market for automobiles in the early 20th century, the company's reluctance to embrace consumer choice allowed General Motors and its numerous brands to overtake Ford and relegate the first mover to subsequent decades in second place.
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But considering the first mover advantage NVDA has in AI coupled with the CUDA ecosystem that is becoming the defacto standard for AI globally, we suspect that the company's multiple will be elevated for some time as growth investors will be willing to project beyond 2020-2022.
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SmileDirectClub – The maker of home teeth straightening kits is the subject of multiple analyst reports, with ratings of "buy" (Stifel Nicolaus, Jefferies), "overweight" (JPMorgan Chase), and "buy/high risk" (Citi), with most of the analyst comment centering on the company's first-mover advantage in an underserved market.
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Eric Landheer, Summit Ascent's director for corporate finance and strategy in Hong Kong, said that his company had "first mover advantage and a monopoly," but that it did not want to be alone in the forest for long because gamblers preferred a more vibrant cluster of casinos.
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In its one-on-one tournament against Stockfish 8, AlphaZero won 25 games and tied 25 when it played as white, while winning three and drawing 72 games when playing as black—a fascinating result for chess theorists who have long known about white's supreme first mover advantage.
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Wells Fargo Asset Management, Neuberger Berman, Fidelity International and Robeco are among fund houses sharpening their stock-picking skills in mainland "A" shares and hiring staff in China to get a first-mover advantage before the rebalancing triggers a flood of passive index-tracking funds to that market.
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Whoever gets the first mover, whatever that is — that three-screen, one-screen, OTT, different programing day and day scale, monetized, having the brands, native that can't be ad-blocked, all that stuff, get away from programatic up to premium — whoever wins that algorithm, wins everything, wins the race.
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Perhaps most importantly, startups seeking to take advantage of the machine learning revolution should move quickly, because many top technology entrepreneurs have woken up to the scale of the business opportunities this revolution creates, and there is a significant first-mover advantage to get access to the most attractive data sets.
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Tesla's battery business does appear to have both cost and first-mover advantages, but with competitors on the horizon such as the Chinese company BYD, which, like Tesla, also makes batteries and cars, it remains to be seen how long Tesla can hold on to its advantage in that area.
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"In some ways, we believe CEO Musk's recent focus on profitability each quarter may have been misplaced – and that Tesla might be best served by looking to press its brand and first mover advantage by aggressively making and distributing its cars – which yesterday's move appears to be doing," he said.
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Philip Morris International already sells IQOS in key cities in 31 markets outside the U.S. "IQOS is a unique product, protected by intellectual property, and will provide significant first-mover advantage to Altria with the world's leading heated tobacco product," Altria CEO Marty Barrington said Thursday at the company's investor day.
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Squad is the new screensharing chat app everyone will copy The question is whether Squad's first-mover advantage and option to screenshare from any app will let it hold its own, or if Instagram Co-Watching will just popularize the concept and send users searching for more flexible options like Squad.
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YouTube star Michelle Phan didn't have first-mover advantage, but she leveraged her online celebrity (26.43 million+ YouTube subscribers), relationships with cosmetics brands and <$500,000 in seed funding to build a subscription box startup that generated $150 million in revenue before raising $100 million in VC. Capital won't make your company insightful.
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Though common sense would tell you that Google/DeepMind believes there is a profitable business to be built off of free access to millions of NHS patient's health data and the first mover advantage that gives them — including the chance to embed themselves into healthcare service delivery via control of an access infrastructure.
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Mahathir characterized the event, rather dismissively, as a "simple case of murder," and appears eager to burnish his reputation as a champion of sovereignty among developing countries; his eagerness to befriend Pyongyang may also stem from a desire for first-mover advantage in a country he believes is on the brink of opening up.
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Despite Cardano's potential technical and other advantages over both Bitcoin and Ethereum, the fact remains that Bitcoin is extremely well known outside cryptocurrency circles and has the first-mover advantage, while Ethereum has thousands of decentralized apps already running on it, with dozens of ICOs (initial coin offerings) lined up in the near future.
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We have a free newsletter called the Extra Crunch Roundup (example issue) that summarizes the pieces we've published on EC. Top VCs in Edtech, Dropbox, first mover advantage, India's Netflix, scooters, and more Here is something crazy: we have about a 4:1 ratio of free users to paid users subscribing to the newsletter.
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I talk about things all the way from clinical trial management, where there's just such a mess of fragmentation in that space, and people that can bring together some really interesting capabilities for the pharma-based businesses probably will have first mover advantage, so I think that there's going to be a lot of work in the healthcare space.
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Read more: PE firms are hiring more undergrads and casting a wider net — here are the new schools where top shops like KKR and Blackstone are scouting future starsIt could not be determined which firm may have sparked the September frenzy, but one source familiar with the matter pointed at TA Associates as the first mover.
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And we outlined that China right now is in a different stage market development than the U.S. China is all about store expansion and new unit growth so we can create a first mover advantage and establish the Starbucks brand in more points of presence in the cities that we are in, and in more cities that we are not in in.
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Keep reading for more deep dives: we talked with six former colleagues of WeWork's incoming CEO to learn more about his leadership style; delved into the murky world of litigation finance; asked a Goldman psychologist about the stickiness factor when it comes to fintechs; and chatted with Interactive Brokers insiders to understand the firm's strategy when it comes to being a first mover.
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"The fear is that other people are trying to launch satellites to produce (a) global network – but saying one thing, having the capital to do it and having the timeframe to do it, means that Inmarsat have got the first-mover advantage in terms of their global infrastructure," said David Smith, who manages the Henderson High Income Trust, which holds Inmarsat shares.
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The $23 billion public company, a third the size of Charles Schwab's market capitalization and 2-½ times larger than E-Trade, had put itself out there as a first-mover — at least among incumbent firms — in offering commission-free trades, a feature of modern finance that a younger set of traders and investors with money on startup brokerage apps has come to see as a given.
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Being a first-mover to disrupt a sector is big, "but the bigger thing is, these are the companies that have taken the time and effort to make sure — before they raise their hand to say they've got a business opportunity to put out there — they've ring-fenced it with some proprietary rights that make their value higher," MCAM founder David Martin said during a recent CNBC appearance.
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TC Sessions: Enterprise We covered a lot of ground with the investors — Jason Green of Emergence Capital, Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures and Maha Ibrahim of Canaan Partners — who told us, among other things, that startups shouldn't expect a big M&A event right now, that there's no first-mover advantage in the enterprise realm and why grit may be the quality that ends up keeping a startup afloat.
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