pitches

As a young know-nothing developer, a few years ago, their NoSQL Web-DB of the future elevator pitches seemed amazing.

Most VC firms that make seed investments will hear pitches from founders who just have an idea.

Tech reporters, as you can imagine, are overwhelmed with pitches, with tons of startups fighting for the same oxygen.

It's the inclusion of Xamarin in Oracle sales pitches delivered by their well connected sales force to corporate clients.

Finally, here's the challenge from an investor's point of view: you see 1500 pitches per year.

It's too easy to make something look too good to be true in an age of CGI and clever pitches.

The pitches must damn near printing money kind of stuff made of magic Mike XXL and pixie dust to stick.

Heck, MS has been using their personal computing market share in their business sales pitches.

Does anyone know whether it was the same words, and they just changed the name, or if they actually composed different pitches?

The unstable pitches do tend to develop a young musician's ear mightily though.

One of his friends runs off and pitches the idea to another guy, who co-opts it and decides to build a business around it.

When someone pitches a piece of tech, people now immediately think of how that tech can be used by Bad People to do Bad Things.

Male-narrated pitches were rated as more persuasive, logical and fact-based than were the same pitches narrated by a female voice.”" They leave out all details on how the study was conducted.

While Kickstarter clearly need to get sharper about identifying fraudulent pitches, I think as a whole Kickstarter is a "hate the player, not the game".

Pinboard actually pitches itself as "Antisocial Bookmarking".

I think we've been conditioned to expect a CTA at the end of many "articles" which has made many of them into pitches rather than articles.