After a stellar launch, in which the first two movies broke opening-weekend records in 1979 and 1982, the "Star Trek" series slowed down, puttering along for much of the nineteen-nineties.
It even had a stellar launch team in Philip Wilkinson (founder of the UK's first price comparison engine which later became Kelkoo), Glen Drury (ex-MD Kelkoo Europe and VP Yahoo), and Jan Riem.
When Nokia launched its Ovi Store for mobile applications a month ago, it was clear that – despite its less than stellar launch – it would be a mistake to simply dismiss the Finnish mobile juggernaut's efforts as meaningless.
Torchwood's stellar launch ratings boosted BBC3 to a 3.5% share of multichannel viewing yesterday, compared to the network's three month Sunday average of 0.9%.
Maybe after a stellar iPad 14 launch, Apple secedes, and they'll be neck-and-neck — if the U.S. exists at that point.
Born 29 April 1854, in Nancy, France, he was a precocious child and had a stellar university career, launching into mathematical research of extraordinary originality.
This year's exhibition and associated conference, which begins on January 7th, is not expected to launch a stellar new product category.
Director Joss Whedon (he of Buffy fame) did an admirable job adapting the popular comic series for the big screen, ably supported by a stellar cast, who helped launch the film to universally laudatory reviews.
From ideation to innovation to impish execution, they are doing almost everything right and studying them offers more lessons in how to launch a stellar brand than shelves of marketing theory and brand guides.
After serving in the Navy in World War II, Sandy launched a stellar career as a manager and financial executive at Scientific Data Systems, Xerox, and Intel, on whose boards he later served for many years.
The son of a Petaluma chicken farmer, Gerson earned a degree in business administration from Berkeley in 1948 and launched a stellar career as a Bay Area real estate developer, counting San Mateo's Woodlake housing development and San Francisco's Levi's Plaza among his most notable projects.
