Sentences with phrase «pitches as»

Unlike Price, McCullers is just missing everything instead of every few pitches as he fatigues, and Betts singles to right to put two on when a pitch does make it into the zone.

A pitcher can have too many pitches as well as too few.

The company now pitches itself as a one - stop shop where entrepreneurs can get «Customers, Press, Funding, and Mentors.»

From that perspective, a news organization that pitches itself as a wonkier CNN — passionate, smart, aggressively inoffensive — may well be selling itself out, but it may also be protecting its future.

That realization led to his restarting an apprenticeship program, which he pitches as an alternative to college — especially at a time when the cost of higher education looks increasingly to be a bad deal.

In addition to getting all of the essential points across, it's important that professionals keep their pitches as interesting as possible to avoid losing their audience before they've even started.

Microsoft pitches it as way better than Google's similar solutions for managing Chromebooks.

If markets run on information, then Primer pitches itself as the petrol.

Adblock Plus is pitching this as a great package for publishers that know a lot of their readers are likely to be using ad - blockers — gaming sites, tech sites, and so on.

Apple's pitching it as more of a health - focused device this time around, and to that end it's launching a Nike - themed model as well.

Google debuted the app in May and pitched it as an easy way for people to conduct multiple online conversations based on individual topics like sports and news.

To woo these iconic companies — among them P&G PG, Estée Lauder EL, and Macy's M — Alibaba is pitching itself as a shortcut to the world's most populous market.

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.

The plan is being pitched as a temporary solution to the area's affordable housing crisis.

Xapo's version is for longer - term storage, known as a vault, which lives in offline servers and are pitched as providing a more secure environment for storing big stashes of Bitcoin.

When Microsoft debuted its first Surface device in 2012, it was pitched as the tablet that could replace your laptop.

Microsoft (msft) first detailed its chat app in November, pitching it as a way for employees in companies to better communicate with each other via online conversations.

The device was announced last March and pitched as a «dedicated games platform with a brand - new concept.»

In the days when stocks were hot, VAs were pitched as the ideal way to capture the upside of equities while deferring taxes.

Verizon Wireless built an impressively profitable mobile business by pitching itself as the most reliable high speed network, not the cheapest.

In 2016, the US Treasury Department instituted a new measure that put an end to the $ 160 billion mega-merger between Pfizer and Irish specialty pharma Allergan, a deal that was pitched as a way to help Pfizer cut its tax bill by moving its corporate headquarters to Ireland.

A team including Roderick Swaab, a professor at European business school INSEAD, and Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia recently took the action on the pitch as inspiration and decided to examine how adding more superstars to the mix affected football (aka soccer), basketball, and baseball teams.

It has done so, since the beginning, by pitching itself as having better products than the other discounters, lower prices than the department stores, and a better shopping experience than anyone in the field.

As a marketer, you get to practice your pitch as well as offer insights for your peers on how to pitch their big ideas and create something from nothing.

In today's smartphone wars, you need a good pitch as well as a good product.

If their garage is situated in Silicon Valley, they might get to pitch as many as 15 VCs, but VCs hear 200 pitches for every one we fund, so perhaps 1 in 13 start - ups get VC, and still they face long odds from there.

They'll be at every conference and they'll pitch as many investors as they can.

Pitched as a Klout.com for Pinterest, Pinreach has one main goal: to show companies the correlation between what people are pinning and what they are buying.

Pitched as «economic stimulus,» they were in fact a deliberate strategy to further enrich the already well off, and to starve future governments.

Xiaomi then pitched itself as a Google - style advertising and services company, rather than an Apple-esque hardware play, and was valued at $ 46 billion in 2014, when it raised $ 1.1 billion in venture capital.

Founded by Zooko Wilcox who previously worked on Digicash and PGP, Zcash is pitched as an anonymous bitcoin alternative which boasts improved privacy by giving users the ability to make selectively disclosable transactions.

Activity in the grocery industry is at a fever pitch as more consumers head online to buy food.

But the pitch as a tech company alongside a real estate company may be a bit easier as he says WeWork has a lot of analysis going on behind the scenes to make sure spaces are optimized.

And so today Agolo is pitched as the «world's most advanced summarization software,» connecting news, documents, data, and more to create real - time summaries more quickly.

Why Canada's global sales pitch as a simpler avenue to U.S. consumers may bother the Trump administration

Between Buffett «s dumping of the company's stock and Greenlight's David Einhorn pitching it as an investment short, management at Moody's has decided to play a little offense....

The Bitcoin investment craze - which has seen millions of people buying the cryptocurrency and spawned countless brokers and other related services - is reaching fever pitch as its price rockets ever closer to a landmark $ 10,000.

The proposalwas pitched as a way to ensure director accountability after the boardroom spying fiasco involving former Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and several senior HP employees.

Whereas Abra was initially pitched as an app for permissionless, borderless cash transfers, the startup is now getting into the realm of «crypto banking.»

«Most of the companies over the past eighteen months that have been creating these ICOs have been trying to pitch themselves as, what I would call, utility tokens, which means they're not subject to normal SEC registration or the normal rules that your investments would have to go through if they listed at AngelList for example,» said Barhydt.

It's worth it to pitch as many people as you can, as often as you can.

The most exciting part: the company asked cities around the country to make a pitch as to why they would qualify as the perfect home.

Make no mistake about it, Apple coming to India is a huge win for India and its pitch as a global manufacturing hub.

What's your elevator pitch as to why you're making this career leap and how you're managing it?

While both sides are pitching this as a win, this is certainly a best - case scenario for Uber given the circumstances.

I do a quick sales pitch as to why everyone in the audience should become a subscriber at the beginning and end of every presentation.

Though there has been no public release of a Whitepaper or prospectus, TON is said to be being pitched as a decentralised internet service that will utilise a veritable smorgasbord of blockchain - centred tech.

On the heels of Making a Murderer basically taking over the Internet, ABC has announced that they are making a new crime drama pitched as «12 Angry Men meets the podcast Serial.»

On the heels of Making a Murderer basically taking over the Internet, ABC has announced that they are making a new crime drama pitched as «12 Angry Men meets the...

The reason this is so troubling is because Republicans have long pitched themselves as the party of family values.