The purpose of this story is rather simple:
First, let’s treat the music industry like a “freemium” music service with both paid…
Let’s just be honest. If there were any industry that prefers to deny reality it is the music industry.
According to Billboard, SONGS Publishing CEO Matt Pincus provided some mathematical evidence before members of…
Spotify recently announced another solid uptick in subscriber numbers, growing from 12.5 million subscribers back in November of 2014 to 15 million as of January, 2015. In response, folks like Mark…
If you are not a copyright nerd, you won’t really be motived by the following analysis of iTunes Radio. However, if you are such a nerd, then you will likely and quickly realize what Apple obtained…
Earlier today, the rumor mill milled out a rumor that Clear Channel and Warner Music inked a deal covering royalties related to the performance of sound recordings on Clear…
Now that some version of Apple’s iRadio contract terms are available online, we can begin to do some comparisons between the effective rates contained in these terms and those…
Churn is a topic in its cooling off period at the moment, with Mulligan, Resnikoff, Peoples, Dredge and others contributing a short time ago to…
While I do not have formal data on the subject, my sense of the historic landscape would be that university incubators, accelerators, and even…
What if startup success might be best modeled and even navigated if it were imagined to be akin to a random walk down Sandhill Road? This question is the one that has recaptured my interest lately.
