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# Union Square Venture’s Partner Andy Weissman Talks Music Startups
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- Published: 2014-02-06T13:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-06T13:28:00.000Z
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In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we talk to **Andy Weissman**, who is a partner at [Union Square Ventures](http://www.usv.com/?ref=hypebot.com). Prior to USV, Andy co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real time applications and services. We ask him about how he thinks about the music startup landscape and why people choose one service over the other.

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