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David S. Rose on pitching to VCs

You can't be a star in a cemetery. Stop pitching!

The Americans have formed quite a wedge.

As their opening wedge in a planned campaign...

I'm sitting at the front of the class, and they're actually pitching their ideas.

We'll make a wedge here, which must stand until tomorrow.

We'll drive a wedge along the shore and keep his forces split.

So I think it's safe to say I know a little bit about the process of pitching.

Take ten minutes to get myself a kingsized Coke and a wedge of pie.

That colt was buckjumping and pitching and tried to scrape me off against the fence, but I stayed with him.

The good news about this is that the global community again, my Brazilian friends tell me is pitching in to help out.

Scherzer, who would be making his 34th start, threw a bullpen session on Thursday and would be pitching on his normal rest Sunday.

And by the use of pitching PowerPoints to VCs, I have personally raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs through PowerPoint pitches.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

The Financial Services Act of 1986 put an end to the pure self regulation regime. Financial interests opposed it vigorously at the time, viewing it as the thin end of a dangerous wedge, though they could not have guessed just how thick that wedge would eventually become.

A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a deal, and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture.

And then, turning round to the other side of the equation, I have personally supervised the investment of tens of millions of dollars into companies who have been pitching me with PowerPoint presentations.

Our strategic withdrawal from SaintLô has made it possible, my Führer, for us to drive a wedge into the enemy front right here, in the vicinity of Mortain.

The Bush administration distinguished itself by driving a wedge between old Europe and new Europe. It is to be hoped that the Obama administration will adopt the opposite course.

So, the very first question that you've all got to figure out is what is the single most important thing that a VC is looking for when you come to them pitching your new business idea?

And probably the best part of this piece is at dusk and dawn when the twilight wedge has fallen and the ground's dark, but there's still the light above, bright above.

Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself and prove to a VC before you fire up your slideshow.

He came up with this Bowden wedge heel that has to be made out of steel or titanium if you make it from some sort of cheaper material, it'll actually crack in two.

Third, domestic macroprudential and microprudential policies increase resilience. These policies should aim at reducing or eliminating the wedge between activities that are good for individuals, banks, and firms, and those that benefit society as a whole.

They stood with and for their judges, making it virtually impossible for judges willing to take Musharraf s oath of allegiance to operate. The lawyer s movement, it seems, drove a historic wedge between the judiciary and the executive.

The issue of whether or not the instrument should be legally binding should not be a wedge issue anymore, taking into account the fact that the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons is already criminalized in many jurisdictions.

On November 23, 2004, an article in the Shanghai Party Committee s orthodox Liberation Daily disagreed. It attacked the concept of public intellectuals, claiming that their independence drives a wedge between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.

Neither side of the Atlantic is immune to the threat, despite the efforts of Osama bin Laden to drive a wedge between Europe and America. Transnational terrorism can only be confronted by close civilian cooperation such as intelligence sharing, police work across borders, and tracing financial flows.

Israel should play an active role in the fall of Assad as a way to undermine the region s Shia crescent and isolate its leader, Iran. Assad s defeat would break the axis of resistance, choke off Hezbollah s arms supplies, and drive a permanent wedge between Turkey and Iran.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

And Allah hath given you in your houses an abode, and hath given you (also), of the hides of cattle, houses which ye find light (to carry) on the day of migration and on the day of pitching camp and of their wool and their fur and their hair, caparison and comfort for a while.

And Allah hath given you in your houses an abode, and hath given you (also), of the hides of cattle, houses which ye find light (to carry) on the day of migration and on the day of pitching camp and of their wool and their fur and their hair, caparison and comfort for a while.

Renewables at the current levels of technological efficiency can make this much difference, and with what Vinod, and John Doerr, and others, many of you here a lot of people directly involved in this this wedge is going to grow much more rapidly than the current projection shows it.

In the end, it is the crippled financial system that is driving the wedge between China s large surplus of capital and formal financing for the country s SMEs. Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

The most realistic scenario is now a three front war pitting Israel against Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah. But a Syrian Israeli peace would drive a wedge between Syria and Iran, thereby cutting off Hezbollah s lines of arms supply while allowing the vital task of stabilizing Lebanon to succeed.

When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.

When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.

At such a sensitive time, it is no surprise to hear politicians pitching the idea of tax reform suggesting that they can simplify the system, close loopholes, and use the proceeds to reduce tax rates. The allure of such appeals is that a crackdown on others tax avoidance will mean that you personally will pay less in taxes.

Holes in the social safety net have led to high and rising levels of precautionary saving driving a wedge between increases in labor income and any impetus to discretionary purchasing power. Significantly, there were strong hints from senior Chinese leaders at the Forum that hukou reform is now under active consideration.

Xi seized the opportunity to drive a wedge between America s two main Asian allies, and built a memorial to Ahn. Japan responded by blasting China for glorifying a terrorist and propagating a one sided view of history a move that, Japan asserted, was not conducive to building peace and stability.

Leaders in the North may mistakenly believe that they can circumvent or outmaneuver the South the so called strategy of driving a wedge between the Republic of Korea and the US. But in the end, South Korea is the neighbor whom the North can truly trust and rely on the most.