Leapfrog
verb
To bypass or avoid something by taking an indirect route.
The company decided to leapfrog over the competition by developing a revolutionary product.
Often appears as...
- leapfrog the competition
- leapfrog over hurdles
noun
A children's game in which one player bends down and others jump over them.
The kids are outside playing leapfrog.
Often appears as...
- play leapfrog
- game of leapfrog
verb
To advance or progress beyond (someone or something) by doing something unusual or innovative.
She managed to leapfrog ahead of others in the promotion race.
Often appears as...
- leapfrog ahead
- leapfrog into leadership
verb
To bypass or avoid something by taking an indirect route.
The company decided to leapfrog over the competition by developing a revolutionary product.
Often appears as...
- leapfrog the competition
- leapfrog over hurdles
noun
A children's game in which one player bends down and others jump over them.
The kids are outside playing leapfrog.
Often appears as...
- play leapfrog
- game of leapfrog
verb
To advance or progress beyond (someone or something) by doing something unusual or innovative.
She managed to leapfrog ahead of others in the promotion race.
Often appears as...
- leapfrog ahead
- leapfrog into leadership
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Pro Tip 1/3Business Strategy
Often used to describe strategic moves in business that outsmart competitors.
The new startup leapfrogged the industry giants by innovating.
Pro Tip 2/3Indirect Approach
Implies using unconventional methods to achieve a goal.
Rather than taking exams, he leapfrogged to qualification through experience.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Obstacles
Can be used when someone bypasses challenges to reach an objective faster.
Our team leapfrogged over budget constraints with creative solutions.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Strategy
Often used to describe strategic moves in business that outsmart competitors.
The new startup leapfrogged the industry giants by innovating.
Pro Tip 2/3Indirect Approach
Implies using unconventional methods to achieve a goal.
Rather than taking exams, he leapfrogged to qualification through experience.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Obstacles
Can be used when someone bypasses challenges to reach an objective faster.
Our team leapfrogged over budget constraints with creative solutions.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Strategy
Often used to describe strategic moves in business that outsmart competitors.
The new startup leapfrogged the industry giants by innovating.
Pro Tip 2/3Indirect Approach
Implies using unconventional methods to achieve a goal.
Rather than taking exams, he leapfrogged to qualification through experience.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Obstacles
Can be used when someone bypasses challenges to reach an objective faster.
Our team leapfrogged over budget constraints with creative solutions.
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How we're using drones...
or advanced technology not working here or needing aid is so totally wrong. Africa can be the disrupter. These small, agile, developing economies can out-innovate large, rich ones. And they can totally leapfrog over the absence of legacy infrastructure to go straight to newer and better systems.
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Before Avatar ... a...
that we would leapfrog past the analog processes of optical printers and so on, and we would go right to digital production. And we actually did that and it gave us a competitive advantage for a while. But we found ourselves lagging in the mid '90s in the creature and character design stuff
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The case for collaborativ...
seismic shift from individual getting a spending towards a rediscovery of collective good I'm on a mission I'm on a mission to make sharing cool I'm on a mission to make sharing hip because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business help us leapfrog over
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Doesn't everyone deserve...
This is urgent. Aspirations are going up. Everywhere aspirations are going up. You folks in this room, work with us. We know that we can find those Zipline-type solutions and help the poor leapfrog into a better world, but it won't happen until we work together.
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Rachel Botsman: The case...
from individual getting and spending towards a rediscovery of collective good. I'm on a mission to make sharing cool. I'm on a mission to make sharing hip. Because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business, help us leapfrog
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Andreas Raptopoulos: No...
with a huge ecological footprint, and yet, very often, congested. So we saw this and we thought, can there be a better way? Can we create a system using today's most advanced technologies that can allow this part of the world to leapfrog
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See Elephants at Their...
us on the sighting you have to make sure that they can their guests can see as well and so we're just gonna work and leapfrog and come around each other viewers keep thinking let me know I'm pretty sure I'm gonna but again Rosetta cats
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The new American Dream PIPE...
This is true of rich and poor, men and women. Now, some of you might hear this and feel sad. After all, America is deeply invested in this idea of economic transcendence, that every generation kind of leapfrogs the one before it,
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Richard Ledgett: The NSA...
so basically, foreign countries going in, stealing companies' secrets, and then providing that information to state-owned enterprises or companies connected to the government to help them leapfrog technology
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Empowering the next...
Africa's youth for this future we want to leapfrog them into the quantum world so that they can use all their creativity their inventiveness their initiative their ideas to access the
Video examples
How we're using drones...
or advanced technology not working here or needing aid is so totally wrong. Africa can be the disrupter. These small, agile, developing economies can out-innovate large, rich ones. And they can totally leapfrog over the absence of legacy infrastructure to go straight to newer and better systems.
Video examples
Before Avatar ... a...
that we would leapfrog past the analog processes of optical printers and so on, and we would go right to digital production. And we actually did that and it gave us a competitive advantage for a while. But we found ourselves lagging in the mid '90s in the creature and character design stuff
Video examples
The case for collaborativ...
seismic shift from individual getting a spending towards a rediscovery of collective good I'm on a mission I'm on a mission to make sharing cool I'm on a mission to make sharing hip because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business help us leapfrog over
Video examples
Doesn't everyone deserve...
This is urgent. Aspirations are going up. Everywhere aspirations are going up. You folks in this room, work with us. We know that we can find those Zipline-type solutions and help the poor leapfrog into a better world, but it won't happen until we work together.
Video examples
Rachel Botsman: The case...
from individual getting and spending towards a rediscovery of collective good. I'm on a mission to make sharing cool. I'm on a mission to make sharing hip. Because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business, help us leapfrog
Video examples
Andreas Raptopoulos: No...
with a huge ecological footprint, and yet, very often, congested. So we saw this and we thought, can there be a better way? Can we create a system using today's most advanced technologies that can allow this part of the world to leapfrog
Video examples
See Elephants at Their...
us on the sighting you have to make sure that they can their guests can see as well and so we're just gonna work and leapfrog and come around each other viewers keep thinking let me know I'm pretty sure I'm gonna but again Rosetta cats
Video examples
The new American Dream PIPE...
This is true of rich and poor, men and women. Now, some of you might hear this and feel sad. After all, America is deeply invested in this idea of economic transcendence, that every generation kind of leapfrogs the one before it,
Video examples
Richard Ledgett: The NSA...
so basically, foreign countries going in, stealing companies' secrets, and then providing that information to state-owned enterprises or companies connected to the government to help them leapfrog technology
Video examples
Empowering the next...
Africa's youth for this future we want to leapfrog them into the quantum world so that they can use all their creativity their inventiveness their initiative their ideas to access the
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Ashton Kutcher
American Actor
Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.
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Marvin Ammori
American Lawyer
In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
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Claire Fox
British Writer
Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks - one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.
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Alex Honnold
American Athlete
Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
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Becky Lynch
Irish Athlete
I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
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Safra A. Catz
American Businesswoman
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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James Chanos
American Businessman
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
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Oscar Munoz
American Businessman
Everyone eventually matches or leapfrogs everyone else.
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Ashton Kutcher
American Actor
Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.
Quote examples
Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.
Quote examples
Marvin Ammori
American Lawyer
In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
Quote examples
Claire Fox
British Writer
Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks - one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.
Quote examples
Alex Honnold
American Athlete
Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
Quote examples
Becky Lynch
Irish Athlete
I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.
Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
Quote examples
Safra A. Catz
American Businesswoman
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
Quote examples
James Chanos
American Businessman
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
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Oscar Munoz
American Businessman
Everyone eventually matches or leapfrogs everyone else.
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