It was the day before a high-stakes sales pitch. I was a consultant working with a sales rep, who was sweating it — literally. His manager and I watched him practice his presentation a final time — in ...

Valley CEO Clate Mask is helping Arizona entrepreneurs sharpen their pitches through PHX FWD’s “Pitch Practice,” preparing the Valley’s next generation of tech leaders PHOENIX — It looks a little like ...

It was a Tuesday afternoon seven years ago when I had my first investors meeting. A recent university graduate, I had no clue how to persuade investors or raise money. All I knew was that I needed to ...

Perfect pitch is a superpower. For those of you who didn’t grow up theater kids, perfect pitch is the ability to sing any note dead on with just a prompt. For instance, someone says, “sing an A flat” ...