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Wiring up Live Music
Hypebot reports: Technology has changed a lot about how concerts are marketed, ticketed and produced since Woodstock. Recently, the greatest driver of change – particularly from the fan perspective –...
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Ridin’ with Hypebot
My buddy Bruce Houghton at Hypebot, caught me last week for a quick interview before Rethink Music. Here is an except from our discussion: HYPEBOT: Your new focus is on consulting and investing. Are...
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Business Model 101 – Build a business around your personality.
I am often amazed at how much today’s musicians can learn from the past. We all think that we are in the age of digital music and the old rules no longer apply and that there are only new models to...
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New Music Stats – Yearning for Audio Quality
Here are some sobering stats that I found on the Smart Money site and a great infographic that sums them up. The most frustrating thing for everyone in the music industry these days is the reality of...
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Investing in Media and Tech from Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is probably the coolest investor I know. He has called it right so many, many times and just did it again with Facebook. You have to pay attention to him. I have been “schooled” by him...
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Canary in the Coal Mine – What the Video Business can Learn from the Music...
Netflix — the poster child for premium Internet video services — was birthed by iTunes and other online music services before it. Yes, movies and music are fundamentally different forms of media, but...
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The Reality of the New Music Business
The raging debate set off by one Emily White, an NPR intern and the eloquent retort from Dave Lowery about the generational shift in thinking about the music industry has been widely reported this past...
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Digital Music Stats – Infographic
This live infographic from James West and Len Henriksen shows that the consumption of music has come along way since the days of vinyl records. But now with all the digital variants of music available...
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Internet Trends – Re-Imagining Everything
I was reviewing this fascinating data from Mary Meeker over the weekend again, and thought I would share it. Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers describes what she calls “the...
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Digital Lemonade – Part One
As the saying goes – when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. And as we face the reality of the digital music business today, many are finding ways to make digital lemonade. This is the first in...
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I’ve seen fives and I’ve seen tens
Gotta love it. James Taylor is suing Warner Bros over digital royalties seeking $2m in compensatory damages from his former label for past MP3 sales. The Guardian reports that singer-songwriter James...
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Modernizing the Merch Madness
For artists struggling to make a living in the digital age, a strong merch strategy can be the difference between living life as a starving artist and making a comfortable living. Yet compared to the...
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Simple Strategies for Musicians Today
Here is a great infographic from Killer Infographics. Thanks Jessie! If you are a musician starting out, contemplating a career in music, building a team, starting a label, deciding on a marketing...
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Modern Merch: Beyond the Tour T-Shirt – CMJ Panel
Ale Delgado wrote this great recap of our CMJ panel on merchandise last week. Thanks Ale! Here is most of it. Visit her site for more: Considering that I’m always looking for the next big thing, I...
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Join me this Friday at Babson Entrepreneurship Forum
I will be moderating a discussion this Friday at Babson’s Entrepreneurship Forum on Distruption in the Music Industry. This year’s 11th annual forum is following a theme of Celebrating Entrepreneurs of...
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Yep, on the road again. Join me Thursday and Friday at Billboard Futuresound
I will be judging a startup competition at Billboard’s FutureSound conference this Thursday and Friday. Sign up here and use this code SPCOL12 for a discount! bit.ly/WvqcRg. These are the five...
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Deadmau5 talks EDM at Billboard Futuresound
EDM is really just short for “Event Driven Marketing”. At last week’s Billboard Futuresound conference in San Francisco, Deadmau5 aka “Joel Zimmerman” gave a candid interview which you can listen to...
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Grammy Awards for the Inventors of MIDI
After 30 years, the inventors of MIDI are being recognized by the Recording Industry with a pair of Grammy awards. My friends Dave Smith and Ikutaroo Kakehashi are both receiving the awards during...
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The Sad Truth about the Music Business
Music is a much smaller and less significant part of many people’s lives than 10-20 years ago. There is more competition for our attention and the value of music has declined precipitously. This...
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