Compete in a sentence as a verb

We > can't compete with being a founder on equity.

For starters, Jobs is trying to coerce a non-compete clause out of Colligan.

The result of this was a huge loss of Swiss watch companies as they struggled to compete.

You have to compete with every 13 year old kid who wants to buy a new playstation game and will wash cars for $5.

If they did need them, they wouldn't be saying things like > We can't compete with Google or Facebook on salary.

He is not trying to compete and is not negatively affecting your business.

You will also have to compete with every other joe who will basically wash a car for a couple of bucks.

In the end, enforcing a non-compete is like erecting a Berlin Wall: if you feel you need it, you have much deeper problems...

People from other provinces can rarely compete on even ground with locals- both for legal and cultural reasons.

However, there is no shared code, a different architecture, and the two don't even compete against one another.

People from Shanghai or Beijing rarely immigrate to Shenzhen because they lose that advantage and are forced to compete with what they would consider the rabble.

That's a big deal, because while everyone expected Drive to offer features that compete with Dropbox, this feature competes with operating systems.

In doing this, they would probably learn both how profound the trust issue is -- and at the same time learn any remaining technical hurdles that they need to clear to really compete with AWS.

This is a pattern for Amazon: I work for a competitor to Amazon, and they went after us for violating a non-compete after we hired an AWS engineer.

This is classic entrepreneurship and there is nothing more sinister about JPMorgan having to compete with a star player launching their own fund than there is Google having to pay out to top performers who may otherwise do well launching a start-up.

In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn't like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare.

"Which is bad news if your strength is that you are a good programmer, because in this kind of environment games become a commodity, so you have to compete with hundreds of thousands of other game developers who also don't have to be as briliant as Carmack.

Our counsel had reviewed the non-compete before we hired the engineer, and concluded that the non-compete didn't actually prevent an engineer from working for a competitor, but rather prevented much narrower activity like poaching customer lists or supplier relationships.

You've gotta wait until you can hold a bat mitzvah to hand it off to her?This kind of chicanery is why I can only chuckle when Google announces new initiatives that require significant customer service, like selling telephones or providing a fulfillment system to compete with Amazon Prime.

Compete definitions

verb

compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

See also: contend