December 2010
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Midemnet Lab unveils International and Innovative...
This is wonderful news. Just last year, Next Big Sound was a young, up and coming TechStars company. Now with Midem’s announcement, they’ve begun to find a place on the world stage.This line-up, which brings together some of the most promising digital innovations of the moment, covers every aspect of the music sector and forms a palette of services responding to the music industry’s...
TechCrunch: World-Map of Social Networks Shows...
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Aspen Live! Day 2. Google and Facebook and Apple,...
Yesterday, at Aspen Live Day 2, we talked about MTV doing things online again. Innovative, interesting things. Some of the thoughts expressed at the meeting: If you’re good, really good, people will find you wherever you are Fans have to have someplace where they can talk about the problems they’re having with you or your service Some of marketing services - Constant Contact was...
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Venture Money Flows to Games and Gamification
VentureBeat’s “GamesBeat” featured a post today by Gabe Zichermann, the author of Game-Based Marketing and organizer of Gamification Summit 2011. Gabe had this to say: In the last twelve months alone, over $10 million in seed capital has flowed into a series of disruptive, gamification-centric startups, over $25 million additional capital has gone to businesses betting big...
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Music? It's alive and well at Aspen Live
See and download the full gallery on posterous See and download the full gallery on posterousEvery year a small group of music business people get together up in Aspen. It’s more conversation than conference, and it’s rarely dull. [Images: Don Strasburg, MGMT, Skrillex, Bob Lefsetz, Jamie Loeb.] Some may come to Aspen Live just for the skiing. But most come for the give and take...
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Fun Inc.
“One of the most profound transformations we can learn from games is how to turn the sense that someone has failed into the sense that they ‘haven’t succeeded yet.’” Tom Chatifield, author of Fun, Inc.
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Mr. Anonymous Addresses Growing Attention Deficit... →
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Mr. Anonymous Addresses Growing Attention Deficit...
This morning I invited Mr. Anonymous, AKA “Jeep” from The Samples, to talk with me about Mr. Anonymous, attention and promotion. First, an introduction from his website: Mr. Anonymous is a.k.a. Jeep Macnichol. Jeep started his music career as founding member and drummer of the Colorado based pop/jam band The Samples. For a decade, his musical journey included 6 national album...
A plug for Steven Blank and His Blog
I’m a Steven Gary Blank fanboy. Why? Because so much of what he describes in his book The Four Steps to the Ephiphany and writes about in his blog rings true with my experience as an entrepreneur. Check out Creating Startup Success - Customer Development + Business Model Design.