Q: What’s your best tip for other entrepreneurs? A: It’s not about starting a business. It’s about solving problems. That’s what being an entrepreneur is. Find a problem that there’s a better way to solve. Get a vision of how it could work better, and stick with it. Ron Shaich, Chairman of Panera Bread, in […]

Everybody wants to be rich. Ever wonder why Bono joined forces with wannabe musician Roger McNamee in Elevation Partners?  Believe me, it wasn’t to shepherd the birth of the unnecessary Palm Pre, it was to get rich.  Because you just can’t make enough money in the music business anymore. Bon Jovi had the top tour […]

Johnny Weir’s single is at #22 in the iTunes Japan Dance chart, and not charting at all on main chart. Keith CahoonHotwire Japan What, they think we don’t have the Internet? Then again, the right wingers spout inaccuracies and even though they’re debunked online they end up permeating the public consciousness. But music ain’t politics. […]

The major labels steal.  That’s their business model.  Do you think those interminable contracts are about protecting your rights?  What are the odds the same team is gonna be involved when you finally have some success and start questioning your royalty statements?  Which is why in the nineties, when recorded music revenues were still high, […]