Sentences with phrase «points in your story in»

Remember that a reader should be able to sum up the important points in your story in one sentence, such as: «Dr. Anderson, who showed up 5 minutes late and ordered a medium cappuccino, discovered something about cystic fibrosis.

Interesting point in a story in today's NY Times about «purpose built devices» which seem to have the upper hand but become irrelevant much more quickly.

Not exact matches

You begin to relate stories to them that tie into who you are and how you've arrived to this point in your life.

I tell this story to help you know that even when it's the darkest point in your life, you can get through it.

She credits a mentor who gave her a fundraising «compass» — or the four points of one's «story» to keep in mind, and to convey clearly to investors.

Founders and early employees have already cashed out of $ 350 million in equity, the story points out.

You are not looking for a generic story in these points; rather, this should be a story that fits precisely here and shows something you are trying to display.

At best, your sales reps are going into their calls with gaps in the story; at worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single call.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

And Fink points out there are going to be similar U.S. success stories in the future no matter what happens on the macroeconomic level.

The story points to Care - A-Van, a mobile clinic, which recently set up shop in a parking lot among BMWs and Teslas to battle this epidemic of advanced aging in Silicon Valley.

He pointed to success stories such as Cookbiz, a company founded in 2007 that developed a job - search platform aimed at alleviating high turnover and labor shortages in the food industry.

(At one point, the elder sister mentions a documentary that compares P.J.'s succession woes to the story of Job in the Old Testament.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

But in 20 minutes, you can cover all the key points and tell your story from concept and mission statement through financial forecasts.

«In responding to this incident — indeed in responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statemenIn responding to this incident — indeed in responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statemenin responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statemenin a statement.

In some cases, however, these answers are wrong — and not just humorously wrong but dangerously so because they point to inaccurate stories or offensive opinions on important topics.

Too many of the also - rans are already stuck in the proof - point pudding (moving sideways instead of forward) and finding that they can no longer sell the same old «just wait and see» story as easily to the guys that totally fell for it the last time.

When a VC asks a founder why they made that part of the product red, or why this button works in this particular way, that founder has the knowledge of 30 user stories and 10 data points that inform them and have colored all of their decisions.

Even people that are great at telling stories to family and friends somehow in their content marketing don't manage to capture the imagination and attention to get their point across with resonance and impact.

I worked as a journalist for The Financial Times in Silicon Valley and I remember even back then that if you played along and if a story followed a company's talking points you were fine.

The event was a breaking point in the community's resentment of L.A. police chief William Parker «and what they considered his double standard toward [African Americans] and whites,» according to LIFE magazine's editorial prefacing its Aug. 27, 1965, cover story on the riots.

Much like the first Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016, Solo has had some production issues — to the point when Lucasfilm fired the film's original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, for «creative differences.»

As Hitched.com editor Steve Cooper put it in a rebuttal to the Facebook divorce stories, this has been the case since the times of our caveman friend Blaaarggg: «I'm sure at some point during the Stone Age a woman was frustrated because her mate wouldn't step away from the fire and come to bed.

There are many interesting lessons in this story, but one main point that the reader is invited to take away is that part of America's opioid problem has to do with patient expectations.

Yet, however flawed third parties may be as they play their role in regulating the marketplace, the Theranos story points to the value of such institutions.

However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.

Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

As my colleague Matt Heimer, who shepherded this extraordinary package of stories, points out in the guide's introduction, anyone who reviewed a quick B - roll of 2016 would have seen a terrain that looked utterly inhospitable for investors.

Burying the lead means forcing a reader to plow through several paragraphs in an article, post or story before reaching the main point.

Let's just say that in a crowded Fall market for IPOs, a lot of investors are making a point of coming out to hear our story.

«There's no point in really being interested in the story,» he says.

This is the point in the story where I'm supposed to tell you that I've been involved in similar feuds over the decades, but we were always mature enough to work things out before they reached the point of no return.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Neuroeconomics professor Paul Zak explains: «Character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.»

You may wish to do some clean up then as sites such as Bloomberg Business news are pointing directly at your current website and business activities in stories about the bankruptcy filing: http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=146030718 This is what leads people to believe that the current company filed.

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

«A big challenge in PR — and this doesn't happen in every case — is getting a client to understand the story from the audience's point of view,» Philadelphia - based PR agent Alexandra Golaszewska told CareerCast.com in an email.

At this point it is still too early in the investigation to determine where the breach occurred, but as the story developers we will be sure to post it here.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debatIn his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debatin the debate:

«The real story of this memo is that despite our legal restrictions on issuing a blanket ban for all employees, our chairman has made the point that anyone at the agency involved in oversight of bitcoin futures products should not own the underlying asset, bitcoin.»

The story points out that Koum wrote in a blog post after selling WhatsApp in 2014: «Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible.»

This alone doesn't tell the whole story and in order to make the point, it's more helpful to look at the distribution of returns.

In this episode he shares his story of how he got started, landed his first clients, and built his business up to the point where it is today.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this posin the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this posin risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this posIn other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

«The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family,» Denton wrote in a lengthy statement issued on Friday afternoon.

Some point in October 2016: Fox News reporter Diana Falzone filed a story about the relationship between Daniels and Trump, which was confirmed by Daniels's then - manager, Gina Rodriguez.

For example, my experiments show that character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.

This point has been covered in this site, time and time again — and it's the same story regardless of whether you're involved in passive investing with index funds, active investing with mutual funds or ETFs, or even investing in penny stocks.

In this series, we cover stories and provide insightful analysis of the digital currencies such as bitcoin with no central point of control over the money supply.