I’ve been thinking about retooling our booking agency Skyline Music to better position it and our artists to compete and thrive in the new realities of the music business. The first steps have been about recapturing my own entrepreneurial spirit and then spreading it throughout the company.
First I had to answer the question: "What Is A Music Entrepreneur?" The conclusions I came to are both wonderfully simple and amazingly complex:
- A Music Entrepreneur creates and adds: ideas, systems, jobs, value, profits.
- A Music Entrepreneur only succeeds through focus and execution.
Both are true if you are a musician, starting a company or retooling an old one. CD Baby founder and true music entrepreneur Derek Sivers wrote about the later way back in August of 2005 on Emergic.org in a post “Ideas Are Multiplier Of Execution” . Read it.
– Bruce Houghton
