This year, a number of Canadian startups like Mover, which had just raised a $1 million seed round) and BeauCoo, which would go on to win GROW's startup competition, as well as a few Silicon Valley VCs and virtually every well-known startup from Seattle and Portland made the eight-hour trip.
Pirates enjoyed a first mover advantage which has been hard for the copyright owners to reverse, even today.
But it is Qatar's voracious desire to become a political mover and shaker which has propelled it repeatedly into headlines.
However, recent news coming from first-movers like Birchbox, which has reported slumping subscriptions, the $1 billion acquisition of sub-box darling Dollar Shave Club to Unilever, not to mention a 90% drop in venture capital funding for the entire category, are all signaling the end of the subscription box boom.
Or maybe neither - perhaps the big mover will be Major League Baseball, which has just announced that the season-opening series next March, between the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics, will be played in Tokyo.
They are prime movers of the Beveridge group, which has won the support of a majority of new MPs.
He also initiated the Campaign for Human Development, an annual fund-raising drive for the poor and was a prime mover behind the Nehemiah housing project which has built more than 1,000 homes for Brooklyn's poor.
We're running up against all of the back-to-school moves, which has made coordinating movers and utilities tricky.
It is a reversal for Ford, which has been a first-mover with installing mobile-phone-based technologies, voice recognition and touch screens in its vehicles.
Canopy was an early mover in the Canadian and international marijuana market, which has helped it to become the biggest player in this field.
