Mr. Holten and Mr. Fulljames are active, hands-on stage directors of some reputation: the former is behind a celebrated Danish "Ring" cycle, the latter established a successful small-scale opera company, The Opera Group, specializing in new works.
Based on her experience with Bioventures, Sherwin suggested that non-profit funds or services might act as an initial hands-on stage to mentor and grow seed ventures, with high-potential ventures which successfully graduate then receiving follow-on investing.
Wurst and several Johnson descendants gathered Friday at a Reno event marking the centennial of the July 4 , 1910 bout and shook hands on stage.
During their encounter Tuesday night, Mr. Cheney said he had never met Mr. Edwards, a Senator from North Carolina, until the two shook hands on stage in Cleveland.
I was prompted to similar thoughts during the Royal Court's current revival of Wallace Shawn's 1990 monologue The Fever, a contemporary ur-text of guilt-laden westerners wringing their hands on stage about the deprivations of the developing world.
It was the first opposition rally in many months, and the first since 1997 that brought together the two rival leaders of the main opposition parties, Vuk Draskovic of the Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic of the Democratic Party, who even shook hands on stage, although gingerly.
So, tonight, as Biden and Ryan shake hands on stage at Centre College, consider joining the conversation at The Civic Commons.
It described his assertive, hands-on style of stage management — "abrupt and ingratiating five times in three minutes" — as a kind of performance in its own right, evoking the manner of "the Hollywood tycoon of the 1930s".
As hands-on early stage investors begin to see "institutional advisors" getting significant equity for services (which they likely consider themselves to be providing, as well), and also see founders raising high-priced, rolling valuation convertible notes, I believe this environment has eroded the "one price, one round" standard.
It's more of a hands-on approach to early stage seed funding, and traditional early stage VCs seem amped about the opportunity.
Britten said he could not conduct in this setup, since he would have no hands-on contact with the stage performance and would have to rely on an army of intermediary technicians.
