Sentences with phrase «hundreds of pitch»

So here are some tips to help you do that, based on hundreds of pitch meetings in the past couple of years.

We went through a seed / angel round, five venture capital rounds and three bank loans, and in doing so have gone through hundreds of pitches to prospective investors.

The goal is to be creative and to stand out from the other hundreds of pitches.

I receive hundreds of pitches every week from different brands and nonprofits who want to be featured on this site.

If you have a strong author platform, it can help increase your chances, but remember that national outlets like The New York Times or Publishers Weekly receive hundreds of pitches each day for new books.

He talks with the country's best surgeons; he visits America's elite youth tournaments, where 13 - year - olds are scouted and ranked; he travels to Japan, where youths throw hundreds of pitches a day; and he observes work at labs for the study of pitching mechanics.

They take hundreds and hundreds of pitches in batting practice so when they get in the game, they have confidence and muscle memory to hit the ball.

Every company gets hundreds of pitches for interesting new games and products that never get made.

Influential bloggers and journalists get hundreds of pitches.

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Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

At the conclusion of the program, graduates take the stage at New York City's Webster Hall to pitch their companies to hundreds of reporters and investors.

I've been pitched by hundreds of entrepreneurs who never actually asked me whether I would invest.

I get hundreds of «press release» story pitches every year and I've probably read about 30 of them, and written about maybe five.

Akorbi's staff grew to eight full timers in Dallas, a dozen in Buenos Aires and Medellín, Colombia, and five tech developers in India, as well as a network of hundreds of freelance translators who pitched in on big jobs.

Here's a rough outline of the 15 slides every investment pitch should contain, based on my experience pitching hundreds of investors and ultimately raising over $ 100 million in funding for Kaltura.

We'd watch them get pitched software for hundreds, thousands of dollars, [programs] I knew I could have built overnight.

While you're more than likely to get a heavy sales pitch touting all the benefits when shopping, consumer advocates say these plans, which can cost hundreds of dollars depending on the product you're covering, generally are not worth the money.

The face - to - face comes after Trudeau, whose government is struggling with a pipeline crisis at home, pitched Canada as a great place to invest by telling hundreds of business leaders «that big things can get done in Canada.»

FORTUNE — Hundreds of students, business leaders, and investors crammed into the Shell Auditorium at Rice University on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extravaganza.

Journalists at large publications receive 80 to 100 pitches per day, which doesn't include the hundreds of emails that are sent to general inboxes and forwarded to them.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a group of about a hundred engineers from around the world, have come together via the JumpStartFund crowdsourcing platform to pitch together their ideas for a working Hyperloop system in exchange for potential equity.

The 10 best AI, AR, and VR women - led startup applicants from across the U.S. were selected to pitch their startup on stage in front of a distinguished judging panel of investors and hundreds of attendees at Google in New York City on February 15, 2017.

It holds two pitch series, Spring and Fall, that draw hundreds of applications from women and minority founders across the Southeast.

In Philadelphia, hundreds of Wharton Business School students have a new fall semester assignment: Pitch the city to Amazon.

Hundreds of Kansas Citians trekked to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts to watch 10 startups from around the world deliver pitches on their tech firms.

A long - term - oriented value investor is a batter in a game where no balls or strikes are called, allowing dozens, even hundreds, of pitches to go by, including many at which other batters would swing.

Only a few of the hundreds of businesses we talk to each month get chosen to pitch.

I remember movies like Fever Pitch, Serendipity and literally hundreds more teaching me that all my problems would be solved once I met the right girl, fell head over heels in love, hit a rough patch where we didn't talk for a minute and then came rushing back together to live indefinitely in a state of heavenly bliss.

It's that time of year again, hundreds of youth rugby players lacing up their boots and hitting the pitch to kick off the rugby season.

Since Ryan's second return from the disabled list, Lanier has limited the number of his pitches in a game to «around a hundred.»

The former two are playing anything but ambitious attacking football at the moment, while the latter were extremely defensive before this season, despite the fact that they had hundreds of millions of pounds worth of talent on the pitch.

It's that time of year again, hundreds of youth rugby players lacing up their boots and hitting the pitch to kick...

That'll be apart from being the «biggest club in the world» as they constantly tell everyone, the hundreds of millions spent on the very eleven who were on the pitch last night, and the fact that they were playing a team from League 2 who couldn't even afford to let their players swap shirts at the end unless they bought their own replacements.

BOLTON LANDING — In a pitch for the endorsement of the state's largest business group, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino chided the state's top executives for failing to speak up as its economic climate has declined and promised that he would authorize natural gas hydrofracking and immediately repeal hundreds of state regulations if elected.

With regard to poor throwing technique, we identified a list of 24 variables that constitute «proper» pitching technique, based on previous studies of several hundred elite professional and college players conducted at ASMI.

In the pitch dark, the beam of a head torch illuminates hundreds of bats encircling a silhouetted figure in front of us.

Chances of the World Changing follows the unraveling thread of one man's conservation obsession, begun in his Manhattan penthouse (with hundreds of turtles stacked bin over bin) and leading to a reptile - filled warehouse in New Jersey, outside of which he pitches a tent.

In people who can hear, spiral ganglion neurons in the inner ear allow for the precise discrimination of sound — we can recognize hundreds of people by the sound of their voice and distinguish between thousands of different pitches or frequencies of sound.

Ever the evangelist, he spent one evening between the Google and Clinton announcements pitching his vision to a hundred or so Hollywood heavyweights gathered in the home of the socialite, pundit, and Web media entrepreneur Arianna Huffington.

IN THE pitch dark, the beam of a head torch illuminates hundreds of bats encircling a silhouetted figure.

We have hundreds of examples; one might be that the rainbow used to be a symbol of God's wrath on a decadent society, and another of course would be The Devil himself — once feared by believers and even non-believers alike — but nowdays is consigned along with the Bible and Jesus resurrection to «myth» status and cartoonised as a little man in red pants and a pitch fork.

The online dating site lets users browse through profiles of hundreds of LinkedIn professionals all over the world, send them private smiles (without words), pitches (250 characters) and even presentations (private images and videos).

Add to that the hundreds of millions of potential dollars hanging in the balance and any executive or director would be well within their bounds to either freak out or ask for pitches from various different screenwriters.

Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition is probably the greatest console dungeon crawler since the original Phantasy Star Online — it's a nearly pitch - perfect take on the «kill things and get phat loot» subgenre, an addictive experience that will keep gamers coming back in hopes of finding the next piece of legendary gear hundreds of hours after they've reached max level.

Fever Pitch is the kind of film where the main characters have no purpose outside of providing minor challenges for one another, and its hundreds of minor characters are pastiches to give the main characters a rest.

Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are pitching hugely expensive «free college» plans as a move toward a «new federalism,» in which hundreds of billions in conditional federal outlays would be used to entice states to spend more and obey new federal rules.

One of many success stories is the fact that one of our partner school's sports pitches are now used every weekend by hundreds of people aged seven and upwards playing for a local football team.

«There are hundreds and thousands of kids and teachers that will benefit from our model,» Nathan Currie, superintendent at N.C. Connections Academy, told a committee of influential state lawmakers Tuesday, one day after making a similar pitch to a state charter school oversight panel.

However, when I'm on LPG and go on partial throttle I hear a low - pitch «humming» kind of a low note, must be few hundred Hz.

It could take hundreds, even thousands, of sales pitch letters to even get considered, much less get a contract.