Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Change

1 I read a "BusinessWeek" article about selling shoes at Nordstrom. Used to be if they didn’t have your size, the salesman would get on the phone and call other stores. How eighties you say! And that’s what Nordstrom realized, they were losing sales. So they put the chain’s entire inventory at the salesmen’s fingertips. […]

Adelemania

We own this. I just got off the phone with Jim Guerinot, he saw Adele last night in San Diego, he needed to share. Remember when we were a tribe, when we all went to Woodstock to hear the elixir of music and bond with one another? That era is back. You see this is […]

Emotional Content

We all remember seeing the "Sledgehammer" video for the very first time…how’d they do that! That was the essence of success in the MTV era, pushing technological limits to wow the passive end user, whether it be Michael Jackson morphing into a panther or Ric Ocasek battling an insect. But we’re no longer passive and […]

webOS Dies

Huh? What’s that? And why is this important to me? I’ll speak English. webOS is Palm. Which failed in its last iteration as a handset manufacturer and ran HP’s tablet until today, when both were killed. The reason this is important is because in tech, we’ve only got one winner. Everybody gravitates to one platform […]