Fred Wilson recently wrote about his experience as a loyal and paying cable TV basketball viewer, and how a lack of options has driven him to consume the pirated product instead. A customer more than willing to pay is being turned away because the product isn’t made available in a customer friendly and convenient manner? Hmm [...]
Fans Would Love To Pay For Music
(Or The Tale Of The Reluctant Pirate)
January 5th, 2012 · 13 Comments
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Music On The Move (Or How We Listen)
January 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Throughout the ups and downs on the music business there is one positive that is always there. The fact that we all listen to music. How we listen is ever-changing. We’ve seen changes in carrier formats, and we’ve seen changes in the publicly available channels. The former has seen us go from vinyl to 8 [...]
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The Artist As An Entrepreneur – Pt. 6 – Team Dynamics
August 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
In my vision of the Music Industry near-future artists will be entrepreneurs, and Major Labels and future music companies will turn into investment companies, and both will relate in a similar way as technology start-ups and venture capitalists do. Paul Graham is a partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, and has funded more than [...]
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