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Serial entrepreneur and fellow New Yorker Chris Dixon wrote about an interesting facet of being an entrepreneur in his post “Otherwise Do Something Else”. As always it’s quite easy to translate lessons from the world of entrepreneurs to the realm of the artist. “I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said [...]

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Charlamagne is a radio DJ and the sentiment echoed below is not a new one. At Family Records we’re always trying to think ahead of the curve of mainstream music consumption behavior and as we prepare for the future I think that the updated version of this statement will look like this: If I like [...]

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Back in the 70′s and 80′s a product war was waged between JVC and Sony over whose format would become the market standard. JVC created the VHS format and Sony the Betamax one. Betamax in many ways was the better format in terms of technical features and usability, but through a few smart maneuvers on [...]

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The quote below is from a Vanity Fair article on how the “The Art of Fielding” came to be a best-selling book after more than ten years of writing. Talk about wanting it badly and really committing to one’s craft! Inside this very long article the quote is merely an after-thought, but isolated and on [...]

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It takes a certain type of person to pursue being an artist, an entrepreneur, an actor or an athlete. One has to be able to handle putting in many years of dedicated hard work before you get your shot at “making it”, which can have different meanings for different people. Below is a video of [...]

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“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best [...]

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In my previous post I spoke on the importance of breaking down your big goals into smaller ones to help maintain ones focus and motivation throughout longer stretches of time. And the stretches of time until you achieve your goals will be long, because everything worth achieving takes time. Even an “overnight success” is often [...]

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As a small business owner at the beginning of your career, which is what every up-and-coming musician essentially is, it’s very exciting to think of the grand visions only. Ah to play stadiums, to put that gold album on the wall of your big house, to sign all your friends and make them famous, to [...]

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A while back I wrote about the difference between operating a transaction-driven business and a relationship-driven business, and how this is a vital distinction to take into account for music as well. Today I wanted to share a video with some thoughts by Peter Guber of the Mandalay Entertainment Group that relate to this same [...]

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While I’m at SxSW it gets a little hectic, so unfortunately I didn’t have time to do a full post. Instead I wanted to share the wise words J. Cole shared on a SxSW panel today. Many musicians still live in the mind state where they complain about lesser talents being more famous than they [...]

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