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# Former EXFM CEO Talks Music Startup Challenges
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- Published: 2014-10-31T11:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-31T11:58:00.000Z
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In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we talk with Dan Cantor, who is former CEO and co-founder of exfm, a social music discovery platform that enables people transform music blogs into playable mix. In recent months, his company was acquired by Rhapsody International and he became their VP of product. We talk to Cantor about his company, the music startup space, and Rhapsody’s future.

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