"The first thing a consumer should do to protect himself when hiring a mover is to make sure that the mover is licensed and insured," said Eddie Dowling, the owner of the Padded Wagon, a Bronx-based moving company (www.paddedwagon.com).
With most products and industries, the settlers enjoy more success than the pioneers because the pioneers have to fight an uphill battle to create the market, whereas the second or third movers have to make the product better.
And Square, like SumUp a startup in the mobile payments space, was seen as an early mover in helping to make ubiquitous the concept of using smartphones to make payments.
Glympse was one of the early movers in trying to make location-based services more social.
A president can lead, but ultimately must have the support of a significant number of congressional lawmakers and Washington Movers and Shakers to make serious waves.
Sochi 2014 also has been stashing snow, and is ready to deploy an army of energy-intensive earth-movers and snow-making systems to make ready for the games.
But this could be one case of when it's not always best to be an early mover — or at least a lesson to early movers that they need to make sure they can change with the times, and in this case the rise of very capable smartphones.
The dancers hurtle through Mr. Preljocaj's tight-bodied, whiplash choreography with impressive precision and clarity, though these terrific movers are seldom able to make much of an individual imprint on what they dance.
Despite the setbacks, E.U. officials maintain that their first-mover strategy encouraged Brazil, Russia, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea to make more ambitious bids than they would have done otherwise ahead of the Copenhagen meeting.
Use old game pieces – Monopoly movers, dice, Scrabble tiles – to make jewelry or to decorate wrapped packages.
