We all want to participate, we all want to play. Life is a game, it’s the essence of social. Something that the music business doesn’t understand. The music business holds its audience in contempt. It’s the fans who are stealing, who are taking money from the artists’ pockets, you’ve got to be wary of fans, […]

The inefficiency is you. What private equity does is find businesses, invest in them, and then overpay the executives to help them eradicate inefficiencies in the system, so both can get richer. The executives are beholden to the stakeholders, not those working for them. This is why you’ve worked so hard and lost your job. […]

"They spent the rest of the time talking about where Apple should focus in the future. Jobs’s ambition was to build a company that would endure, and he asked Markkula what the formula for that would be. MARKKULA REPLIED THAT LASTING COMPANIES KNOW HOW TO REINVENT THEMSELVES. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as […]

When you employ a freemium model, a small percentage of your customers will generate a significant part of your revenue. This is why you must offer expensive tickets and merchandise for these diehard fans. Please read this article by Hany Nada on allthingsd: Music for Nothing and the Fans for Free This is why Bon […]