Backblaze will see competition from a number of well established players in this space, including Mozy, Carbonite, and SugarSync.
Gerstmann's experienced team will be facing long odds – the gaming space is very crowded, and is dominated by a number of well established players like Kotaku, IGN, and GameSpot.
And while the company will be taking on some well established players in this space, particularly in academic environments, its simplicity and relatively low cost make it a viable alternative (and it's already profitable).
The dating space is very crowded with some very well established players, but popularity has recently been shifting away from traditional sites towards alternatives, which Ignighter may be able to capitalize on.
One of my concerns with new iPhone-based dating networks like Skout is they they have to face off with huge, well established players like Match.com, which are slowly releasing their own iPhone applications.
In 1996, she entered at a tournament in Austria in which players like Allison Fisher, Gerda Hofstaetter and Franziska Stark participated and placed 4th place behind these three well established players.
Reassuringly, well established players in the master regulatory pathways of senescence (for example p53) have also been identified in these screens [ 24, 25].
While several genes in these pathways are important players in cholesterol metabolism and have a well established role in cholesterol synthesis in liver, little is known of their importance in adipose tissue.
A trained architect, Hardwicke is a well established production designer.
I took that to mean three things: (1) Playing time is often harder to predict than performance; (2) Opportunity often trumps skill; and (3) Performance often begets playing time, so you could infer that a less established player was both playing well and staying healthy if you knew he had 550 at-bats.
