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Startups are always on the brink of death.

This place is a KGB state on the brink of happening.

MS has not been pushed to the brink such that they need to risk it all to survive.

If China had done this, the USA would be at the brink of war right now.

You don't come back from the brink because of life lessons, or essays on the internet, or the love of a small child.

That's because a million bucks in the Bay Area will only buy you a 900 sq. ft. bungalow on the brink of collapse.

"Mr. Jobs leaves behind a dominant Apple, fulfilling his original promise to save the company from the brink when he returned in 1997.

The genesis block contains a headline:> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banksHe made bitcoin public exactly after this.

Flounder around on the brink of bankruptcy until finding runaway success in a totally unrelated market?

The American people deserve to know if the US gov is pissing off China with its hacks, to the brink of war, just like the Chinese people deserve to know if its own government is doing the same with its cyberattacks against US.

In the meantime, Apple went to the brink of ruin and bounced back to usability preeminence using Unix code, but violating -- nay, extravagantly violating -- the Unix philosophy when it comes to user interfaces.

If you're on the brink of homelessness, there's something amiss that's deeper than will be fixed by a "startup accelerator" gig, "crowdfunding campaign", or desperation lowball contract to build an "app MVP".Your resume is scattered in tone and content, and inconsistently formatted: it's a bad audition for a detail-oriented solo-web-dev project.