So here we are at the end of another year. We have had a bumper crop of Innovators and now we must say hail and farewell to three of our favorites. "Hail" as we welcome them to the Hall of Fame and "farewell" as they pass from our annual Innovators issue. To get to the Hall of Fame an Innovator must have been on our radar for some time and in the year-end Innovators issue for three years. That shows us that the innovation is not a flash in the pan and the Innovator is not a one-trick pony. Our long-term Innovators are market-shapers. Much of what they have done has created the de facto standards that have dictated what similar products do. These are the folks everyone else competes with in one way or another. And, as often as not, they are the tail that wags the dog because many of them are very small companies that have devel- oped a great idea, partnered up with some heavy technical hitters or serial entrepreneurs and started a company to exploit their innovative technology.
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