grooming

Go to every coffee shop or dog grooming business or what have you in your area and talk to anyone you can.

Working like this, it's not geeks vs suits; the suits channel their schedule pressure into productive work: grooming the backlog.

The bees, once dusted, trigger their cleaning behaviour - they begin grooming themselves to get rid of the sugar.

Most farmers create scarcity across almost all resources, from food to grooming space, to running and flying room, to pasture time, and so on.

Imagine growing up with TV cartoons grooming you to become a princess, a fashion model or, if you failed at that, a housewife.

The female body is a thing of beauty - it's delicately crafted, given form by years of grooming and attention.

A scrawny fourteen-year-old, after two hours with this game, will be grooming his muttonchops and ready to ship off on the next boat to fight the Kaiser.

Researchers counted every instance of maternal licking and grooming.

People shouldn't worry about tidiness, which, like shaving and personal grooming, isn't intrinsically very important.

At best, a person with a demonstrated history of building and grooming an article over a year or so might expect some deference when newcomer attempts a dramatic change.

"Before I started a startup, I was a software engineer at a large firm, and it was clear they were grooming me for management because I was a strong individual contributor and had "put in my time": 3 years as an engineer.

What seemed like a tiny variation in early mothering style, so small that decades of researchers hadn’t noticed it, created huge behavioral differences in mature rats, months after the licking and grooming had taken place.

When a pup received the comforting experience of licking and grooming as an infant, it grew up to be braver and bolder and better adjusted than a pup who hadn't, whether or not its biological mother was the one who had done the licking and grooming.

So they kept watching the rats, spending long days and nights with their faces pressed up against the Plexiglas, and after many weeks of careful observation, they made an additional discovery: different mother rats had different patterns of licking and grooming, even in the absence of their pups' being handled.

How is the YC model sustainable without existing large corporations like Google or Yahoo or Linkedin waiting to buy out the startups?YC is about grooming startups ready to be bought out in talent acquisitions after a period of rapid growth, not about creating sustainable businesses with viable products.