Sentences with phrase «make your pitch at»

Watch our 2017 finalists make their pitch at last year's Innovation Showdown to learn about the ideas that earned an investment.

The laureates, former Vice President Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan leader of an African movement to curb poverty and advance women's rights through tree planting, made their pitch at a Manhattan meeting on forest conservation, economic development and climate.

That's assuming you can get your foot in the door to make your pitch at all.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.»

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.

Some, too, dangle free accommodations at a luxury hotel to lure you into a high - pressure sales pitch for timeshares or vacation clubs, while others make good on that free cruise for you, but require you to book a second guest at a grossly inflated price.

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.

Other services have made that pitch, of course, but too often they've felt like handicapped versions of cable at a lower price point.

«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.

The mistake a lot of entrepreneurs make is not starting at the top when selling or pitching an idea.

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.

Whether it's selling a pair of sneakers at a store, a new heating system to homeowners or pitching a startup to investors, making that sale depends on the appearance, knowledge and enthusiasm of the salesperson.

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.

Start looking at models online and check pricing before you visit any dealerships so that you know what you want, hopefully you won't make a snap decision based on a slick sales pitch, and won't get swindled.

Write them, tweet at them and pitch a coherent and completely polished story (don't make the reporter or producer work), and you have a good chance — assuming you have established yourself.

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.

At age 15, he began pitching kitchen gadgets at state fairs across the country, making up to $ 8,000 a daAt age 15, he began pitching kitchen gadgets at state fairs across the country, making up to $ 8,000 a daat state fairs across the country, making up to $ 8,000 a day.

Another Super Bowl first - timer, Fiji Water makes its debut at the big game this year with an ad pitching the water as «Nature's Gift» while showing images of the Fiji islands juxtaposed with urban cityscapes.

At the start of the year it launched a new «Strategic plan» to focus on ultra-premium brands pitched at billionaires to make up for slumping Chinese saleAt the start of the year it launched a new «Strategic plan» to focus on ultra-premium brands pitched at billionaires to make up for slumping Chinese saleat billionaires to make up for slumping Chinese sales.

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.

At least that's the pitch Adamson's training company makes.

Step one to making a winning investor pitch is talking a mental seat on the opposite side of the table to look at your company as they will.

Give away something memorable: You only get 60 seconds to impress the open - call directors, so make sure you impress them with something physical or memorable, preferably at the end of the open - call pitch.

From his release, both pitches look identical to batters needing to make the micro-second decisions that go into swinging, but one shoots by them at breakneck speeds, and the other dives out of the zone while still hitting 91 mph on the gun.

The basic pitch goes something like this: With up - to - the - minute information at their fingertips, business owners can make more timely decisions about how to manage their funds.

If you're selling something at the end of your webinar, make your pitch with confidence.

At first he tried a rigid diet plan pitched by an athlete on TV, but it gave him headaches and made him tired and grumpy.

The Inc. + TOMS Pitch for Good is a program created by Inc. and TOMS to identify promising social businesses and invite a few of them to make their cases directly to a panel of judges, including Blake himself, at Inc.'s 2016 Growco Conference on May 17.

But we looked at the behaviors of people making pitches, and categorized them based on the stereotypes around masculinity and femininity — men are assumed to be more confident, aggressive and bold, and women are supposed to be more expressive.

We know nothing about the deals before they walk in and at least 20 percent of the pitches never make it on air.

With promises of more transparent government, better - trained police and improved public schools, four of the leading candidates for Baltimore County executive made their pitch to voters at a forum Saturday in Woodlawn.

His portal, FundFindr, was not geared towards consumers funding frivolous food projects — instead, it's a more serious endeavour, aimed at helping entrepreneurs make pitches to investors.

With that backdrop of doubters and detractors, Noah Kagan, employee # 30 at Facebook, pitched Mark Zuckerberg with what he thought was a genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could make real money.

Or has the act of making a public appearance at which investors are pitched mean you are already necessarily under 506 (c) and, in the immortal interjection of Gov. Perry, whoops, you'd better have filed your Form D 15 days back already?

You are correct that I, ``... don't have to swing at every pitch,» but I have found that remaining consistent with my buys (making at least one buy every month) helps take some of the guesswork out of trying to time the market and find the best possible time to invest.

Finally, they also invest invest their time and efforts in the business, from working long hours or pitching in on duties that don't technically fall under their job responsibilities to occasionally making personal sacrifices when time doesn't permit them to be in two places at once.

At the core of the matter is that a pitch is a pitch, and you'll notice that these investors all mention a few essential points... like how much drive and motivation you and your co-founders have to make your business work.

Their real word business guidance, ability to recognize pitches with potential, and acute investing skills make any one of the Shark Tank sharks a top choice for keynote speakers at nearly any business event.

The DIY - approach is to identify publishers on which you'd like to acquire brand mentions, then identify journalists and editors at each publication, then contact them to make your pitch.

Because they are the people at the receiving end who get pitched all the time from entrepreneurs, here are five top venture capitalists baring all about what will make them sit up and take notice.

Salil's all - around experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, product executive and corporate strategist makes him a sought - after panellist and judge at venture pitch events.

Your pitch should also include one slide that makes your idea visible at once: this involves for example a Twitter - friendly headline, followed by three key benefits to support the headline and a reinforcement through facts, statistics and examples.

The two cities that have been the most successful at luring technology companies to Indiana are making a combined pitch to win Amazon.com Inc.'s prized second headquarters.

Six high school entrepreneurs were announced as winners of this year's Young Entrepreneurs, Make Your Pitch competition at Discovery 2018.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch - and - toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: «Hold on!»

What pitch might you make for pastors and theologians to be educated in philosophy, at least to some degree?

half a man - any man who takes a wife and does not serve as the financial and spiritual head of his home but believes the relationship is 50/50 and she should make half the money and do half of his job at home pitch a tent club - men who allow their wives to nag them so incessantly that they want to sleep on the roof of their own home

United States private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and junior partner Rhone Capital made a higher buyout proposal for Treasury on Monday pitched at $ 5.20 a share, which valued the company at $ 3.4 billion.