Wesley Verhoeve

Via Bryce. Related Reading: Creative Advice From Ira Glass (Or It Takes A While) (read)

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When artists approach me to listen to their music I always request a stream. I can deal with a download too, but prefer the effortless of a stream. What I can’t deal with anymore is a CD. And I don’t mean this ideologically, but practically. I do not own a single device that plays CD’s [...]

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Bryce wrote two great posts on start-ups and their choice of financing and perspective. An excerpt: “Businesses that historically would have raised venture capital, but were deciding to forgo funding and blaze their own trail independent of the pressure and expectations that come with outside investment. [...] I think we’re entering a golden age for [...]

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Ira Glass is one of the greatest story-tellers and radio men of his generation. His NPR show “This American Life” is not only one of my personal top favorites, it’s one of the most listened to podcasts in the world. In summary, Ira is both great and successful. He has some invaluable, albeit simple, advice [...]

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WNBA player Skyler Diggins comments on her motivation in last week’s New York Times magazine. Related Reading: Why We Do What We Do (Or Why Music) (read) Stay In Your Basement (Or How To Deal With Success) (read) The Reward Is In The Work (Or What You Can Learn From George Clooney) (read) Lessons Learned [...]

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Seth Godin compares two marketing models in a recent post that distinguishes between products marketed horizontally and ones marketed vertically. The models are general and work for most any product, from soda to consumer electronics, and yes even music. There’s a very clean cut way to apply the vertical/horizontal layer to the music business. See [...]

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News stories about Facebook’s IPO were hard to avoid yesterday. Most of it had to do with how much everyone was set to make, down to the guy who painted the murals in their original office. The most interesting part to me was Zuckerberg’s letter to his investors in which he outlines his vision for [...]

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In the 1930′s writer Will Durant wrote a book called “On The Meaning Of Life”. Letters Of Note, one of my favorite new blog discoveries, shared the letter that journalist and critic H. L. Mencken wrote in response to Durant’s inquiry. It’s well worth reading the full letter, but I thought I’d highlight a specific section [...]

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