Sentences with phrase «hit their stride in»

While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.

But the fact is that most companies need 5 - 10 years to hit their stride in terms of identifying the right market, product, and marketing strategy.

They are hitting their stride in the earnings years, but spending it as fast or faster than it comes in.

She hit her stride in the mid-1990s after becoming head of Morgan Stanley's technology banking team, just as Wall Street was growing infatuated with the shiny new Internet.

The first hit its stride in the 1920s and the second had its biggest impact in the 1990s.

B2B Marketers are experiencing on evolving as well as new challenges as we start to hit stride in 2013.

Once a luxury item, sugar really hit its stride in the 18th century when a process was developed to extract sugar from beets, which grow in a wider variety of climates than sugarcane.

That was all the practice they needed though as the Offense really hit its stride in Game 2 v. Team Massel..

Team Rijos certainly hit their stride in the League's final Weeks and used that momentum to win a close Game in the Opening Round w / Team Rubin and knock the # 2 overall Seed — Team Valvassori from the Playoffs..

They tend to start hitting their stride in the second half of the season.

To win a title you need to hit your stride in March, have a great team dynamic, a set of guys that would do anything for one another and luck...

This group really hit their stride in the middle of the Season and never looked back.

Team Abramson led by brothers Daniel and Ryan hit their stride in the second half winning an extremely defensive battle.

However, they hit their stride in mid-July and were humming coming into the Playoffs..

There are some places that really hit their stride in a certain season.

But some mindful adjustments can help you truly hit your stride in high heels.

The brand is hitting its stride in its fourth year under Creative Director Amy Powney — and U.S. buyers are taking note.

Can you imagine, just when you're hitting your stride in a career, you're all of a sudden deemed «too old» because of a completely natural, inevitable, unavoidable biological process?

The series hits its stride in episode two when Sam speaks at her middle daughter's school about female empowerment.

Fortunately, employing its tried - and - true aesthetic — a docudrama visual approach; portentous narration; real - life documentary footage inserted into key moments — it hits its stride in Episode 4.

And while the first season was popular, the comedy really hit its stride in the second season, among both men and women (including «Which character are you?»

After breaking out in the 1980s and hitting his stride in the 1990s, Liam Neeson has enjoyed a renaissance over the past six years.

Designer eyewear really hit its stride in the eighties, with movies such as American Gigolo and Tom Cruise's breakthrough Risky Business (1985) selling the attitude that built the decade: conspicuous consumption was nothing to be ashamed of.

After three decades as a scene - stealing character actor, Ben Mendelsohn seems to be hitting his stride in 2015.

Despite its many problems, Monkeybone somehow manages to hit a stride in its final third with the arrival of Chris Kattan as a reanimated corpse; to say anything more would rob some of the enjoyment of his manic, lunatic performance.

Beginning his career as one of Takashi Miike's go - tos in films like The Way to Fight and The Man in White, hitting his stride in Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi and Godzilla: Final Wars, and even turning up as one of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, actor Kazuki Kitamura is one of Japan's most recognizable faces.

Exploitation movies hit their stride in the decade, boldly flouting moral conventions with graphic sex («I Spit on Your Grave,» «Vampyros Lesbos») and violence -LRB-» The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» «The Hills Have Eyes»), the latter reflected particularly in a spate of zombie movies («Dawn of the Dead») and cannibal films («The Man From Deep River»).

Peter and Bobby Farrelly hit their stride in the mid-to-late»90s with the one - two punch of Kingpin and There's Something About Mary, and that's really about it.

Eventually, I hit a stride in my teaching.

A versatile alternative to the traditional station wagon, minivans have hit their stride in America, and there are plenty of offerings to keep you busy shopping for the right one.

In the 1980's Toyota really hit its stride in the United States, with a nearly full line of new Toyota cars trucks and SUVs.

After this she wrote a number of stand - alone novels dipping into a variety of genres leaning to romance before truly hitting her stride in 2001 with the publication of The Other Boleyn Girl,...

However, she not only did but she actually got better as she hit her stride in the second half (fortunately so, as otherwise I might not have stayed the course).

One Piece is a series that starts out good, but really hits its stride in the mid thirties, and has recent sales records has shown just keeps getting better.

Mobile reading hit its stride in 2012, with total revenues of 6.89 billion Yuan (# 656 million), with the number of cumulative users that year surpassing 600 million.

Like the stock market, these deals really hit their stride in the 1990's.

That fallout from the housing bubble is just beginning to hit its stride in terms of mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures.

In addition to the above reasons to choose natural cat litter over clay cat litter, Jackson Galaxy adds, «In my experience, natural litters, while going through the fits and starts of any innovative product, has hit its stride in terms of the cats themselves.»

Dr. Mina Youssef, DVM, of the North Star Animal Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., and Jennifer Scruggs, MSW, of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, also point out that the game is hitting its stride in the summer months, a dangerous time for dogs.

One of New York's notorious Bronx Boys, Tim hit his stride in the early seventies and just kept going.

Once you hit your stride in Light Fall, you'll have an absolute blast with it.

The system has really begun to hit its stride in its second year, and its record - breaking sales pace continues to trend ahead of even the mighty PS2.

Facebook games are still hitting their stride in finding the way to do this.

The PSP seems to finally be hitting its stride in terms of game releases, so I'd actually think it has another year or so left in it, if Sony continues pushing production on it.

Experimental movies were just hitting their stride in 1963, well before Paul Sharits or Michael Snow and Wavelength, and not one of Hollis Frampton's from those years survives.

The school hit its stride in the1970s when it brought on staff like Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, and Allan Kaprow.

When the Peninsula Fine Arts Center's old annual juried exhibition hit its stride in the early 1990s, it regularly attracted as many as 900 entries and twice exceeded 1,000.

I was especially moved by the four - panel piece by Joan Mitchell [Salut Tom, 1979], right at the end of the exhibition — this massive, positive, explosion of energy as the artist hits her stride in middle age.

I mention these three artists because each of them hit their stride in the 1970s, or, after the «1960s,» when, according to Douglas Crimp, in his essay «The End Of Painting» (1981), «painting's terminal condition finally seemed impossible to ignore.

Correction: Diesel trucks were first introduced in the 1930s, hit their stride in the 1950s, and now move roughly half of land freight.