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What are some challenges the company has overcome?
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One challenge we had to overcome is the perception that iPads are for content consumption and gaming only. FiftyThree’s Paper and Pencil changed that
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We have one designer for every engineer, which lets us prototype aesthetics and functionality rapidly and at great fidelity before we start building.
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Any advice for other startups?
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While building your first product, keep your costs low. Work out of your own apartment.
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"See you there" focuses on the location, while "see you then" references the meeting time.
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If my colleague tends to arrive a few minutes late, I lean towards writing "see you then".
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If my colleague is new to the company, I write "see you there".
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He ate a green apple."Green" does not begin with a vowel sound, so we use "a".
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Peter tasted the wine (that) his mother bought for himPeter tasted the wine that/*() had cost only 12$.
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"That" is a conjunction in this type of sentence. (In "the cat that jumped over the wall", it is a relative pronoun.) It is in general OK to leave out the conjunction "that" now and then, as long as no ambiguity arises.
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The easy way to tell which is technically correct is to substitute he and him for who and whom, then rearrange the word order to see which sounds right.“Who were you speaking to?” becomes “You were speaking to he” — which is clearly incorrect.
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For nouns that are plural, the possessive formed in writing by adding an apostrophe after the plural -s. The boys' books [boys' sounds like boys]
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For singular nouns that end in -s, the possessive is formed by adding -'s, The boss's car. [boss's sounds like bosses]
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John and Marsha's house was robbed last night. / I'm not a fan of 1995 to 2005's music scene at all. / The plants were eaten by the man next door's cat
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If I were you.../ It is technically correct since "the subjunctive mood is used to express a wish or possible situation that is currently not true."
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Madonna has visited Princeton / *Einstein has visited Princeton. /means that X has died is only appropriate at a time when the addressee would not yet know that X is dead./ If it's Hot News, use the Present Perfect; but if it's Old News, simple past.
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Instead of avoiding an issue, Dachis says you should put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
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They’re also afraid of losing their job or of making the situation worse.
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