Sentences with phrase «in making the pitch»

«There are two key mistakes in making a pitch to investors.

In making his pitch to the Development Committee, Luetkehans acknowledged that one year ago he was arguing against building in the park.

In making his pitch to GOP leaders, he is stressing the importance of «electability.»

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

The party is calling in all the help it can get in making this pitch, inundating potential supporters with an email from Moveon.org, an impassioned plea by actress - activist Cynthia Nixon, an email from Kirsten Gillibrand urging voters to help W.F.P. elect a State Senate, a video by Whoopi Goldberg, and an appeal by Gloria Steinem designed to counteract the Women's Equality Party (which was started by men, and has few women candidates or downballot Democrats on its line).

In making the pitch for additional toll relief on the Verrazano, the governor said it «will allow Staten Islanders to keep more of their money on the island.»

They've likely reviewed your resume and cover letter (if you sent it), or have reviewed your LinkedIn profile (if they are recruiting you more proactively), have seen what you have to offer, and are interested in making the pitch for why their company is the best place for you to move your career.

In making a pitch for flexibility in the workplace, it's essential that you have a strategy for making your plea.

Not exact matches

In the category of epic role reversals, the New York Daily News makes big companies pitch to startups and other need - to - know stories from this week.

• China Sinochem Group, a Beijing oil producer, is calling for banks to make pitches ahead of a potential $ 2 billion IPO in Hong Kong of key oil assets, Reuters reports citing sources.

It was O'Malley who made the strongest pitch to tackle immigration reform and to find a path forward to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., though he was short on details.

In this period of peak startup funding — and competition for capital, don't make the pitch mistakes I did.

If you are going to invest in a trade show make sure you are patent pending, have a sellable product, a one - page sales sheet, a strong elevator pitch and you can communicate your cost breakdown,» says Bill McHenry with ESM Sales and advisor to the Entrepreneurial Center of the University of Illinois and Entrepreneur Center at DePaul University.

The Pitch will feature five companies making 5 - minute presentations in Aspen to a panel of judges, with the audience choosing a winner.

They let you make your pitch even if they have no interest in buying.

Like every company making a pitch, we'll tell that tale in about 20 slides and 20 minutes.

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

To making your pitch memorable, get your participant involved in a dialogue.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Trump at length about the issue during a meeting in Brussels, and even at the Vatican, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin made his own pro-Paris pitch to Trump and his advisers.

If you have made it to the stage where you have convinced investors to take a look at your pitch, you are already deep in the investment process.

Rotem's sales pitch is that while owners may lose a small margin on sales, the new customers that come in should more than make up for it.

The Information published a story in which six women, including Niniane Wang, Susan Ho, and Leiti Hsu, accused Binary Capital Partner Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances while they were pitching him for a potential investment.

As she made a pitch to the audience to invest in her business, Critters and Conservation, she lured Togi, a Congo African gray parrot with a stunning red tail, out of his cage to perform a head - bobbing dance on her hand and then moved Señor Lagarto, a three - foot - plus - long Colombian Tegu lizard, onto her shoulder.

«Let's just say they made a home - run swing in Canada and they missed the pitch,» says Alex Arifuzzaman, a retail analyst at InterStratics Consultants in Toronto.

It was slick, it made Facebook look like rock stars, and judging from the sheer amount of pitches in my inbox for in - person F8 meetings, it left those developers feeling a little left out from the spotlight.

Because they must have an all - hands - on - deck mentality, start - up CEOs are often in «player» mode, pitching in here and there to write code, make a sale, or develop marketing plans.

For example, in an October interview with industry trade publication Digiday, media consultant Aram Zucker - Scharff compared the project to Facebook's Instant Articles project, which is pitched as making news articles easier to read by hosting them directly on the social network's site.

Whether that means doling out mouthwatering samples from behind the counter, creating interactive games to play on the web or offering online courses that teach people how to make their own pasta, today's marketers need to deliver more than slick sales pitches and rock - bottom prices — or risk getting left in the dust.

According to a 2013 study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, minority entrepreneurs accounted for just 7 percent of pitches made to angel investors (13 percent resulted in an investment).

This was made even clearer to me recently while I watched startup pitches in Charleston, South Carolina, at Dig South, a conference combining great entertainment, cutting - edge technology, pitch events, and fantastic networking.

BHP Billiton bosses have made a strong sales pitch regarding the company's proposed demerger, telling shareholders in London they'd benefit from the next step in the big miner's «evolution».

This made me think of a brilliant phrase from Alex White, the CEO of Next Big Sound, in his TechStars Demo Day pitch.

The legal dispute follows a confession from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a profile for Vanity Fair that when Lyft was making the rounds raising money from venture capitalists, Uber was unapologetically going back to the same VCs to pitch Uber.

If I start suggesting that I will only purchase goods and services from a Democrat or a Republican, or only listen to your pitch if you agree with my political view, I have draw a line in the sand that doesn't really make sense.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

The idea of a group of people pitching in to make something come to fruition is hardly novel, but the way the Kickstarter team leveraged the internet to pitch to millions of people simultaneously — as opposed to a coterie of traditional investors — certainly was.

In the beginning, I used to make a huge list of journalists and send a common mail to all the them without taking time to personalize the pitch.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

I should have done a photography shoot with my products in July so I could have pitched them to magazines in August to make it into their gift guides.

, and had previously pitched each other on the idea of an app for making hospital stays suck less,» Skiff told Business Insider in an email.

I secured press on CNBC by pitching how to make millions in ecommerce.

Here are seven pitch strategies that will make your prospects nod in agreement instead of nodding off.

You are now a judge on Gimlet Media's «The Pitch,» making investments in Shift and LiquiGlide.

Last fall, the government narrowed a field of about 50 applicants to nine finalists that are made up of groups pitching projects in many different areas, including advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and clean technology.

From Martha Stewart's American Made event to Entrepreneur magazine's recent spread on the theme, the obsession with the Made in America label has reached a fever pitch.

If listicles don't fit your marketing strategy, you can go in a different direction by stringing together testimonials or benefits or any stand - alone elements that, when combined, make for an overwhelmingly persuasive pitch.

When pitching your product in the market, make sure people know what it is and how it works.

Every statement you make in emails, pitch decks, videos or online advertisements must be factual and may not be misleading.

He wore his pants hiked up high and had a high pitched voice and was skinny, according to the 1993 biography «Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America» by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews.

Using these tips to pitch our startup at GrowFashion got us the attention of Fortune 500 companies and taught us how to make a valuable connection with our audience and leave a lasting impression in less than five minutes.