Trump had already leveraged his fame so far beyond his actual status as a second ― or third-tier ― New York real estate developer and soon-to-be-bankrupt casino operator, that the idea of basing a Saturday morning cartoon on his public persona must have seemed like the absurd end point.
There are a variety of ideas on how to leverage the fund, but so far they have run into problems with existing treaties, and the European Central Bank has opposed the idea that it should guarantee loans made by the fund.
So far, leverage is coming in the form of high-profile bookings, two YouTube music videos with around 100,000 views each, more than 10,000 Facebook fans and a sold-out show at the Metro in Chicago in February.
They believe it would be downright foolish for Democrats to give up their best leverage when Republicans have so far shown little inclination to cooperate with them or Mr. Obama on major legislation.
While many types of shared economy scenarios are proliferating, few of them, so far, leverage the Internet of Things and blockchain as technologies to build distributed applications.
To the best of our knowledge, no efficient and distributed solution leveraging mobility was proposed so far to cope with the node capture detection problem in Mobile Ad Hoc Network.
So far, he's leveraged the faith the public has put in him to address issues that proved too daunting to some of his predecessors.
Wong tells me that there currently is no mobile ad network that focuses on games, "Game mechanics are what makes games, and there has not been an ad network so far that leverages those mechanics to engage users at the same time".
When Kiip emerged out of stealth mode just over a year ago, it based its business around rewards in games — "Game mechanics are what makes games, and there has not been an ad network so far that leverages those mechanics to engage users at the same time," Wong told TechCrunch last year.
Some of those who do see opportunity in the shutdown, meanwhile, admit they have been more successful so far at leveraging free media exposure than securing actual business.
