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Coursera is experimenting with a monetization and retention strategy, which offers students “Signature Tracks” that lead to verified completion certificates. The vast majority of users are just dropping in to take free courses, but the company introduced a “Signature Track” to try to put more weight behind the end-of-course awards issued by universities that […]
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 finalists that will be competing. http://www.getmixxd.com http://www.playground.fm http://swarm.fm http://www.tixie.com http://www.tunezy.com This looks like it could be a pretty exciting conference with keynote speakers including VC […]
Last month I had the pleasure of traveling to Austin, TX and working with the fine folks there – brainstorming on the future of music and in particular, the future of the live music business. Here is an updated version of my Global Music Business presentation that I gave at their incredible new City Hall. […]
My friend Roger McNamee, a founding Partner and Managing Director of Elevation Partners has been getting some great press lately on his thoughts on the new music business, investing in technology, Apple, Google, Facebook and much more. Here is the transcript of a speech he gave at NARM earlier this summer, a must read. “Our […]
If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention. F.B.T. Productions in Detroit, the producers who helped Eminem achieve his success are paving the way via a lawsuit against Universal Music and others, to larger payouts […]
Our dynamic industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and Rethink Music will give you access to critical thinkers looking to explore problems and find solutions for tomorrow’s music industry. Presented by Berklee College of Music and MIDEM, in association with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Business School. Rethink […]
In the face of insurmountable odds I feel a competition is in order. Here’s a pretty telling graph – Recorded music sales over time since 1999. This is the truth. If you are trying to make money selling recordings, or producing them you are selling into a market that is auguring into the earth. If […]
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