Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Slow

Have you seen the Mary Meeker slides? She showed them at last week’s D Conference. But a tech entrepreneur friend of mine tweeted about them today, a week later. Or how about David Lowery’s screed about the new boss being worse than the old boss? That was posted on April 15th, but almost ever day […]

Sillerman

A Concert Mogul Is Betting on Electronic Dance Music You’ve got to sell to somebody. Just ask Zappos. Or Groupon! Zappos sold to Amazon, otherwise the online retail giant would have gone into competition with the sassy shoe sales site. As for Groupon… It should have sold to Google. It made the mistake of believing […]

Joe Walsh On Howard Stern

Howard Stern interviews Joe Walsh (06/04/12) I play "So What" all the time. I know, I know, you’re supposed to play "The Smoker You Drink" or "But Seriously Folks", not the disappointing follow-up to the hit. But I drop the proverbial needle and it makes me feel so good! Now I was there at the […]

The Power Of One

Now that Steve Jobs is dead, are we going to enter the dark ages of user interfaces? Pick up an Apple product. Usability is intuitive. You don’t need to employ a manual, it just works. But even though Apple has been making products like this for over a decade, no other company has mastered this […]