Sentences with phrase «years of pitching»

I've seen that look come over more than a few editors in my years of pitching stories on climate.

It's his blessing, after years of pitching, that he's finally working on the Space Hulk game he's always wanted.

Melinda tells the therapist the story of how she supported Robert through college and 18 years of pitching his invention until Robert bled her dry.

After years of pitching, Hamilton has gotten some bold - faced names in Silicon Valley to pony up a total of around $ 5 million for her two funds over the past couple of years.

Those connections would ordinarily take years of pitching and road shows to put together.

After four years of pitched online aerial battles, Ace Combat Infinity's live servers have been shut down by Bandai Namco.

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We also decided to wind down our activities in the wind pitch control business by year end, resulting in a charge of $ 0.72 per share.

«We keep a calendar of speaking opportunity deadlines and make sure to pitch fresh, relevant session topics every year,» he says.

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.

To realize his vision, Katzenberg has been pitching two different constituencies: myriad tech and telco giants he could partner with to bring the content to the masses and the biggest producers capable of supplying content.When he shared his vision exclusively with Variety last year, he was seeking $ 2 billion to fund the venture.

Called Pulse, this event is YouTube's version of upfronts, that time of year when traditional television networks hold splashy events, trot out their stars and pitch advertisers on upcoming programming.

We think it's a pretty compelling story, and, it turns out, it's one that is consistent with the pitch we made a year and a half ago, when we raised our seed round of funding.

«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.»

Long associated with older industries, Osaka has struggled to get out of the shadow of Tokyo as a start - up hub, but it has upped its game in recent years with new start - up investment funds, downtown university campuses, incubators and pitch events.

Keep in mind companies often communicate with the same investors many times across months and years until they invest, so the first pitch is only the beginning of a long relationship.

I've spent several years listening to entrepreneurs pitch their deals and I've read more than my share of business plans.

Contardi and Mercer spent the next couple of years pitching new show ideas featuring Gampp and her talents, but networks didn't bite.

I see a lot of startup pitches every year.

They're picky about clients, too: potential customers have submitted 30,000 projects in the last two years and Cho says the company turns down 70 % of the projects pitched to it.

The Oracle of Omaha spoke on Thursday afternoon with Dan Gilbert, the Quicken Loans CEO who has bought more than $ 1 billion in Detroit real estate in the last several years and who has pitched Buffett on Detroit before.

«I feel like these worlds are so merged over the past few years,» she said of Hollywood and Silicon Valley while making her pitch for tech investors to hit up her business associates with ideas.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

Criticism of Google's dominance in search — it enjoys a 90 per cent market share in Europe — reached a fever pitch this year, with competing search engines and major publishers attacking the company, and even consumer rights groups piling on.

This year's winners were chosen based on three main factors: originality of idea, pitch (which we left mostly intact, below), and growth potential.

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

Ultraviolet cell phone disinfectants, bloodstain testers, and a brand new use for dry ice are just a few of the pitches at this year's Rice University Business Plan Competition.

Every year, Pace University and the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City host the Annual Pace Pitch Contest, which launched in 2004 and is open to any current or recently graduated college student.

The Omni was pitched on «Shark Tank» a few years ago, but all of the sharks passed on the technology.

Case's Rise of the Rest Tour visited nine Midwestern cities last year to promote entrepreneurship and hold pitch competitions.

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.

About a year ago, I did a pretty comprehensive analysis of every pitch made on the show through the first five seasons.

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 sales.

But lately he's changed his sales pitch to focus a little more on the fact that 100 percent of profits go to charity — the company will surpass more than $ 500 million in total giving this year.

He's vetted thousands of pitches from companies and content marketers over the years at CNN and Al Jazeera America.

White House lawyers and other officials studied the option of overriding the ban but did not develop a strong legal position or an effective political sales pitch in an election year, a source familiar with the discussions said.

With Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's blessing, Metrolinx, the Toronto - area transit authority, is currently pitching a menu of several different road tolls in hopes of raising $ 2 billion a year for transit expansion.

This past year, applicants of the New Venture Pitch Competition include students from over fifteen different majors.

In 2012, the number of startups that participated in startup - management company YouNoodle's pitch competitions and hackathons more than doubled, jumping to 11,000 from 5,000 the year prior.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

It began with founder and chairman Chip Wilson's sense of a market that even after 12 years defies explanation in an elevator pitch: clothing that is functional but also fashionable, designed for athletic use but often worn for other purposes, appealing to a New Age, anti-consumer aesthetic while occupying pricey real estate in shopping meccas, and all the while pushing a potpourri of empowering self - help messages.

Recent years have seen the rise of firms such as Sportvision, which sell data - collecting cameras that track movements on the field imperceptible to the human eye, such as the precise path and velocity of a baseball pitch.

During the end - of - year pitch competition at UConn, she won a $ 1,500 award and promptly founded Diverse IT LLC to provide diversity training and bullying - prevention curricula to K — 12 schools.

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Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we'll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.

In a Power Pitch segment on CNBC's «Power Lunch» program last year, a panel of three investment and home experts gave the technology positive reviews.

Inside Google, Fallows had been the biggest champion of the Google Express project, after coming up with the idea years ago and then pitching it to management, securing what a source previously told Re / code was up to a $ 500 million budget.

It's a business cliche that has reached fever pitch in the past couple of years.

The smart home assistant race has been building to a fever pitch over the course of the last couple of years.

In a new report released today for Sustainable Prosperity (a new research institute), Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler pitch a federal carbon tax constructed by broadening the base of the federal excise tax (which currently raises over $ 5 billion per year based on a tax of 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents -LSB-...]

«It's already fielding pitches from banks to handle an IPO for its music arm that could raise at least $ 1 billion next year,» the report citing people with knowledge of the matter.