Sentences with phrase «focus is on the pitch»

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Instead of pitching Riot as a congenial place to work, hiring managers focus on how new hires can level up — that is, develop and fine - tune skills.

Too many pitches focus on the business and not what potential investors are going to get out of it.

The focus is on educating, entertaining, and delivering value to the consumer, rather than giving a hard pitch for your products or services.

So we want to make whatever we're pitching relevant to what they are focusing on.

Rather than its narrowly - framed focus on wealthy individuals taking unfair tax advantage, people are beginning to wonder whether the proposals will hit more broadly than pitched, and whether that in itself is unfair.

When you're pitching a not fully developed product, focus on your vision and how you're going to be able to make their lives easier.

Therefore, don't make the mistake of focusing your media pitches on why you are an expert.

But instead of focusing on the actual development, we are spending our time cold calling and pitching clients.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

Focus on the follow - up The goal of your elevator pitch is to stimulate enough interest for a follow - up meeting, but you should also try to determine the focus of the inveFocus on the follow - up The goal of your elevator pitch is to stimulate enough interest for a follow - up meeting, but you should also try to determine the focus of the invefocus of the investor.

And the company's emphasis appears to be on bundling wireless service for its TV, phone and Internet service customers instead of focusing on a stand alone mobile pitch.

But lately he's changed his sales pitch to focus a little more on the fact that 100 percent of profits go to charity — the company will surpass more than $ 500 million in total giving this year.

The startup was able to receive the funding after Ajao and co-founder Brendan Wallace pitched the fact that despite LinkedIn and Facebook's fairly sophisticated search tools, «no one had focused on using data to identify what a person actually does,» Ajao says.

Travel is a requirement of the entrepreneurship - focused program Maliondo was pursuing — students leave Canada to refine business plans, pitch to investors and gather information on market opportunities.

Your pitch can always be improved, so focus on refining it every meeting and you'll avoid complacency.

It's certainly easier to get attention for more company - focused initiatives if you've built up your own audience on your own property, as opposed to pitching your story to journalists and hoping one of them bites.

Valarie Fox, executive director of Digital Media Zone (DMZ), an incubator based in Toronto's Ryerson University, has a refreshing perspective: «For the DMZ, the focus is not on the pitch.

Whether you're pitching a new guest post, an idea, an already published piece of great content or making a presentation to a group of investors, focus on how it can benefit the person that you're addressing, not you.

They are totally focused on very early stage and just glad they didn't waste a second of our time for a useless pitch.

I'm sure you've heard by now: Our favorite B2C startup hub Switchyards Downtown Club hosts a monthly pitch event focused on consumer startups — «The Consumer Show» (#theconsumershow).

Focus your pitch on the key questions for your stage and if you keep getting non-key questions, something is wrong with your pitch.

A content strategy must focus on providing content top, middle and bottom of the funnel that is relevant, helpful, informative, and entertaining — not an overt sales pitch.

If the Venture capitalist you are pitching is more interested in the profit potential of the business; focus on that.

When focusing on a niche market, your sales and marketing pitches will be more centered on your ideal customer, which leads to more sales because you are focusing on one need rather than multiple needs.

That means I'm focusing on pitching articles and actions that directly lead to sales.

His role, it seems to me, is essentially that of a sentinel (Ezekiel chapter 33) who foresees approaching events and gives warning before the situation reaches the pitch of tragedy, takes on a massive character or becomes the focus of passions.

Launching at Expo West (and making a splash at this year's Pitch - Slam), Made Of is a line of certified organic baby and home products focused on full product transparency — from what's in the products to where they were made.

Fifteen startups focusing on agriculture, water, and energy technology will be eligible to pitch their ideas to possible investors through the Fresno State Valley Venture Accelerator.

The difference between the two WARs is that FanGraphs attempts to eliminate the defense from the metric, using FIP, which focuses on strikeouts, walks, innings pitched and home runs.

His mind must be focused on the pitch and not social media.

However on the pitch we need someone who sets an example in terms of effort and focus and who can make a difference when things are going against us on the pitch.

And it's not just the pitches down the middle we should focus on, either.

obviously I would prefer to have a much more suitable alternative in the defensive midfielder positions but if they focused more on defensive end and the occasional long - ball, this would allow Bellerin and Sead ample opportunities to bomb forward on their respective wings while still having enough cover to maintain their defensive shape... it would likewise allow for overlapping runs on both wings, thereby letting both Sanchez and Perez to cut inside and get shots away in and around the top of the box with their most dominant feet... if goals were needed I would sub Bellerin for OX and bring Ramsey in for Elneny then switch to a 3 -2-4-1 (more of a 3 -1-5-1 with Ramsey playing higher up the pitch) and I would only use Giroud as a sub when the game dictated it for tactical reasons... this would allow us to be a high energy team with incredible link - up play and a much more direct approach in the offensive end

Given that his previous deal was set to expire in 2017, it will be a welcome boost for Monreal to have now secured his future at the club which in turn will allow him to focus on matters on the pitch.

His physical capabilities on the pitch are only going to grow worse and with the professional game in England so heavily focused around pace and physicality, Per could soon see himself very out of favour.

Individual battles both on and off the pitch between the likes of Mourinho and Guardiola will add further sub-plots, but they will all be focused on their own ambitions and limitations, and will be desperate to live up to expectations.

It has to be a day of work and focus on what happens on the pitch.

United spent heavily on attacking players over the summer, and while this list is not made up entirely of defenders, it is clear that van Gaal now feels he needs to switch his focus to that part of the pitch.

Allow the Braves to focus on 3b / C to be addressed for future considerations and shake out all pitching specs for trading chips to fill out needs in 19».

The way he could change a pitcher's entire career with 1 pitch deep dives and his dedication to the minor leagues with player interviews (I'm still a part of the «Gomber Pyle» fan club) got me so focused on baseball minutia you could have swore he miscounted my Ritalin.

Now that the Yankees have moved Chase Headley's salary, they might be interested, and the Nationals are still pitching greedy, but the Cubs might be focused on other additions now.

I'd have focused more on Torres (which I did), the lack of CB depth (I'd prefer to have two quality CBs to back up a 3 back rather than just one with one of the starters being a converted CDM), the lack of players who fit the outside mid role well in this formation (which, hey, maybe that's part of what you were referring to), and the fact that when you play more attackers higher up the pitch, it often requires a team to be able to implement a high pressuring defensive line (Dempsey and Bruin are not suited for that).

«Arteta is an extremely intelligent player, focused and committed.These three qualities together make him an exceptional player and he understands everything that is going on on the pitch».

All this family strife can hardly be conducive to focusing on your job, whatever it is, so I wonder if this might explain a little bit about why Ozil has not looked as happy as he might on the pitch.

«He wants to give all of himself on the pitch but sometimes you need to be calmer, be focused on you position and on the pitch with your team - mates.

wow are we sterile up top, goals need to come from defense again, ozil & cech were great, mert once again taking the brunt of bad comments meanwhile a clean sheet and did nothing wrong, open goal that was saved was kos out of position and monreal caught up the pitch too high, giroud has great ball skills, issue is his position on the pitch, watched the match again focused on giroud, he tends to camp behind the defender from the ball, this only works when you have the quickness to break, he does nt, I have screen shots where ozil is 25 yrds farther up the pitch then giroud, thisis the problem, he is rendered useless unless ozil holds up, and thats not ozils strength, thus very few sog's from giroud on the run, when giroud gets lucky w space in front of the defender, he is lethal, but needs to get into that space,

Conte will undoubtedly be pleased with what he saw from his players in general as opposed to focusing on the goals though, as there were impressive performances across the pitch.

Teams can focus on Sanchez there is threat on the other side of the pitch requiring a defense attention.

We proved it on the pitch today and when we look at training sessions everyone is focused on what is coming up.»

«I was a little bit emotional before the game, but then when you step onto the pitch you just focus on the game,» he added.