In another instance, REEG collaborated with tattoo artist Tino Gomez to produce a fully-colored tattoo of one of his recognizable figures for a fortunate customer. .
Customers fortunate enough to have found their way to Mosca's, west of New Orleans, and to be sitting at the bar when such a gift arrived knew there was history in that bowl.
One thing venture capitalists look for aside from founders with a good idea is a customer base waiting for a product and Ellis says they were fortunate enough to have customers lined up for the product the week they opened.
When keeping a restaurant, the Carved Angel, in Dartmouth, south Devon, during the 1970s, we were fortunate in having as customers many of the organisers and performers from the summer music school at Dartington Hall not many miles away.
After a week of wearing heavy coats indoors and sleeping on the couches of more fortunate neighbors, about 143,000 customers served by the state's largest electricity carrier, Connecticut Light and Power, were still without power by Saturday evening while the repair work was all but complete in most other states.
At the same time, he said, "We recognize at Microsoft that we do have a special responsibility because of the number of customers we're fortunate enough to have," and so "we're doing our best to live up to that responsibility" by designing systems that will make security updates more automatic.
Y Combinator-backed StatusPage is in the fortunate position of having paying customers like Jawbone, Shopify, New Relic, Parse, Ping Identity and Zendesk, ahead of today's official debut.
David Rees: We are very fortunate to have absolutely amazing customers whose support and appreciation has always been a great influence.
We have had an amazing reaction from our customers and have been fortunate to achieve listings in Sainsbury, Waitrose, and Tesco for a selected range of our coffees.
"In many ways, social is still in its infancy, and we're fortunate to help so many great customers navigate this evolving set of challenges".
