In February 2009 I left a promising career in advertising to build a music company. My vision, albeit partially formed, was to offer a new way of serving exciting independent artists by simultaneously growing their prowess and profile across touring, promotion and publishing. We’d do business in unconventional ways, use…
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Could you take a bite out of your own business?
Becoming the cannibal Sketch 3. Image: Cult of Mac Earlier this week an article by Marc Hemeon of Design Inc. popped up on my feed. It’s a quick guide to putting together a logo in 5 minutes, without hiring a designer. Design Inc. is a marketplace for hiring high quality designers. Does…
Overwhelmed by startups? There’s a spreadsheet for that
Clippy in the house with Jeff and Bill. He probably didn’t help Excel’s net promoter score. Image via The Atlantic. In 2011, The prominent Silicon Valley investor and inventor of the Netscape internet browser Marc Andreessen said that ‘software is eating the world’. Over the past five years, this quote…
Where’s the mentoring in the music industry?
Career fuel, career angst and passing the torch this article originally appeared in edition 3 of The Manifesto, a publication for the modern music business. One of my favourite articles from the past eighteen months is a piece in the consistently excellent Fast Company magazine by Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Chairman and CEO…
What have artist managers, football coaches and startup studios got in common?
Two things that are ingrained in many countries’ cultures are football and music. To an extent they go hand in hand — both blend art, commerce, fashion and entertainment, and have huge numbers of passionate fans. In both businesses (and they are businesses, like it or not), there’s often one person in…