Every new product goes through a shaky stage on its way to commercial readiness.
While criticized early on for shaky stage performances, the Texas-reared dancer-turned-pop-star can now boast a multi-platinum album, a steady rocker boyfriend (Pete Wentz) and a stint in Broadway's Chicago.
They really seemed to stick in place well, and actually worked in person better than the shaky on stage demo would've led me to believe.
This week, we caught up with DFJ Growth cofounder Randy Glein to understand how closely related or not the two remain, how the firm is feeling about the shaky late-stage market, and whether his team of five general partners is ready to raise their own, third, fund from investors.
At "We Are Plastic Ono Band," mixing concert and tribute at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, her voice could be shaky and her stage patter giggly and unplanned.
Cinema attendances nosedived with TV's ascendancy in the late 1940s, and only staged a shaky recovery in the 1990s.
A proud, new African country is about to be born, but it will step onto the world stage with shaky legs.
A jury ruled on Friday in favor of shareholders who said the French media group Vivendi lied to the public about its shaky finances, setting the stage for a possible distribution of billions of dollars in damages to investors.
McCarthy gets off to a shaky start with a stage-setting reference to Central Park as the "city's largest park" (Pelham Bay Park is three times the size), then struggles to find a story line in all the fascinating facts, a great many of which have ended up in a note at the back of the book.
But all the pool winners had one shaky moment in the group stages - apart from Ulster, who did superbly well to win every game in a tough group and finish as top seeds.
