Ellen DeGeneres Teases Beats Music Super Bowl Commercial and Partnership
Yesterday The Ellen Show released a YouTube clip that seems to be from today's yet-to-air show in which she announces that she's partnering with Beats Music and that she's going. Continue reading
Berklee Launches Entrepreneurship Institute Led By Sonicbids Founder Panos Panay
The Berklee College of Music today launched the Institute For Creative Entrepreneurship (ICE), and named Sonicbids founder and Berklee alum Panos Panay as Founding Managing Director. Introductory lectures begin this spring,. Continue reading
Shazam Turns Grammys Into Green Driving 54,000 Music Purchases
Music and sound recognition app Shazam had it biggest night ever during Sunday night's Grammy Awards telecast. The company notifies its 10 million app users to tune in for exclusive. Continue reading
Music Startup Dreams? Learn From These 51 Tech Founders Who Failed
Silicon Valley is said to have a culture that embraces failure as a learning process. But that doesn't mean you have to fail first before you can succeed. A recent. Continue reading
Avoid An Overwhelming Flood Of Fake Fakebook Friending With This Easy Trick
We've previously discussed how services that sell fake Facebook fans have begun clicking Like on other fan pages so that their paid fake activities can elude Facebook's automatic filters. This. Continue reading
Musicians: Skipping Time Management Is A Major Mistake
By Dave Kusek, former President of Berkleeonline and digital media consultant. His latest venture, the New Artist Model, is an impressive online course for musicians and others learning to navigate in the new. Continue reading
CrowdTorch Combines TicketMob and Seed Labs For Live Event, Fan Engagement Platform
TicketMob, a ticketing and social marketing platform for music and comedy, was acquired by Cvent last year during a quiet period before their IPO in August. Cvent also acquired mobile. Continue reading
SoundCloud Launches New Visual Player
Fresh off a $60 million funding round at a valuation of $700 million, SoundCloud has launched a visual player. The new embeddable player adds artwork and launches an improved version of SoundCloud's. Continue reading
Indiegogo Raises $40 Million To Expand Crowdfunding Site
San Francisco based crowdfunding site Indiegogo has raised $40 million in Series B venture funding. from IVP and Kelin Perkins. Previous funding rounds had netter the startup $16.5 million. More. Continue reading
Why Having To Constantly Hustle Is Bad For Artists
Subcribe to the Upward Spiral podcast in iTunes, play recent shows on SoundCloud, or follow us on Twitter. In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we. Continue reading
