• An early adopter or lighthouse customer is an early customer of a given company, product, or technology. The term originates from Everett M. Rogers' Diffusion...
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    an innovator, an adopter, or a potential adopter. Potential adopters have a threshold, which is a fraction of his neighbors who adopt the innovation that...
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    Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan. Blain's Farm & Fleet was an early adopter of "buy online, pick up at the store" in which all stores provide a...
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    opinion editor. National Review editor Rich Lowry described Hurt as, "an early adopter of Donald Trump populism." Hurt has written numerous opinion pieces...
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  • are adjacent to the player. The game was written by Ian Andrew, an early adopter of the ZX81 and Spectrum. He learned to program BASIC in his spare time...
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    performance, but is now his favorite part of live concerts. He was an early adopter of the Moog synthesizer, which can be heard on the opening swoop of...
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    the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters. 4. Slope of enlightenment More instances of how the technology can...
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  • 5-log reduction (99.999%) or greater reduction in harmful bacteria. An early adopter of pasteurization was Tropicana Products, which has used the method...
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  • of what the authors refer to as a pragmatic programmer are being an early adopter, to have fast adaptation, inquisitiveness and critical thinking, realism...
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    had 2,048 40-bit words of ferrite core memory. This machine was an early adopter of ferrite core memory.[citation needed] The main assembly of TIFRAC...
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    the Asia/Kia Towner. The Kurogane Baby was the first kei truck and an early adopter of the cab-over design The bonneted Honda T360 was Honda's first automobile...
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  • different innovations—a farmer might be an early adopter of mechanical innovations, but a late majority adopter of biological innovations or VCRs. When graphed...
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    criticised a June 2023 comment piece by Atkinson in the Guardian, who as an early adopter of electric vehicles, described EVs as "fast, quiet and, until recently...
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    the consumer market. CNN was an early adopter of Adobe Premiere Pro. Also, in 2007, certain BBC departments adopted Premiere Pro. It has been used to...
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    gatekeepers in the adoption of a trend: the innovator, the early adopter, the late adopter, the early mainstream, the late mainstream, and finally the conservative...
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    network infrastructure for the health care industry; also, it was an early adopter of technologies like bar-code scanning for distribution, pharmacy robotics...
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    by Goldberg and Lynch, utilizing several loop and effects pedals. An early adopter of the now-defunct Vine app, Goldberg was known for incorporating many...
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  • data integration Customer delight Customer relationship management Early adopter Guided selling Procurement Service level agreement The customer is always...
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    lower part of the touchpad surface acts as a clickable button). Another early adopter of the GlidePoint pointing device was Sharp. Later, Synaptics introduced...
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    Times was Hu Xijin until December 2021, who has been described as an early adopter of the "wolf warrior" communication strategy of loudly denouncing perceived...
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    He was elected captain of the sports club in October 1922. He was an early adopter of starting blocks rather than digging footholds in the cinder tracks...
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  • an American fashion designer and retailer. He is known for being an early adopter of sustainable fashion, and is a co-founder of the eponymous Organic...
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  • and early 1970s, with major contributions by Dijkstra, Robert W. Floyd, Tony Hoare, Ole-Johan Dahl, and David Gries. P. J. Plauger, an early adopter of...
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    Red Letter Days is a UK company which was an early adopter of the concept of giving experience day vouchers as gifts and corporate rewards, based in Farringdon...
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    Electronica 2001 Golden Nica for "Net Vision / Net Excellence”. He was an early adopter of open-source software, offering the source code of the praystation...
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  • A self-described advocate for sustainable design, the firm was an early adopter of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, and an initial signatory to the...
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    Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio. American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV....
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  • Kyung-ja, a well known classical ballerina. She is known for being an early adopter of the miniskirt in South Korea in the 1960s and for her songs "Everyone"...
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    keep the designs of his wares in tune with current fashion. He was an early adopter of transfer printing which gave similar effects to hand-painting for...
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    License Agreement Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition Including License for Early Adopter Versions" [1 or as a Community Edition with an open-source license....
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