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The Music Business' Only Hope is Transparency

Paul Graham is the founder of Y-Combinator. If you're unfamiliar with Y-Combinator, it's a sort of combination boot camp/mentor program/seed investment firm. It selects a small number of early-stage companies/entrepreneurs from a vast amount of...

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Artists and Brands Make Their Fans/Customers Teachers

The impulse to teach is a powerful one. For me, it provides me with my Joseph Cambell "bliss."

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Joint Venture to Generate Brand Opportunities for Artists

Universal Music Group (UMG) and Havas just announced a joint venture they are calling the "Global Music Data Alliance". This initiative is intended...

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Where Do We Go From Here

It’s New Years Eve, and I’m in a bit of a reflective mood. When I think back on this year, I realize that the question I get asked the most — both...

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Forbes Profile on New Platform for Brand/Artist Partnerships

Forbes recently published both parts one and two of a two-part series profiling Music Audience Exchange and our TuneLaunch platform.

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Nick Messitte at Forbes Weighs In On Payola Laws

A couple weeks back I wrote a piece here explaining why Payola Laws distort the market in the music industry ensuring that independent artists are...

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Fixing Radio

I’ve written at some length about the difficulties surrounding getting your music played on radio. The bottom line is that unless you’re an artist...

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Payola Laws & The Greatest Music You’ve Never Heard

The laws and regulations our politicians and governmental agencies put into place can distort markets and restrict our options as consumers. Lately...

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Taylor Swift & The Streaming Debate: Why Everyone’s Got it All Wrong

The recent firestorm of controversy over Taylor Swift’s decision to pull her catalogue from Spotify (the ramifications of this covered nicely by...

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