People don’t know they want it because they don’t know what it is. Same deal with MTV…  Who wants to watch music on television?  Turns out EVERYBODY DOES!  And if you’re a student of history, you know the channel single-handedly pulled the record industry out of a prolonged slump.  Of course MTV became more valuable […]

How did Apple become one of the most valuable companies in America? By doubling down in a recession. Remember the dot com crash?  Everybody in tech pulled back.  Not Apple.  The Cupertino computer company invested.  And then released a product that was supposedly overpriced and undesirable.  That product?  The iPod. Remember when Apple was a […]

There’s got to be a better way to sell music. Think about it, we’re now all connected, worldwide, if the right act were pushed, it could become gargantuan overnight. And that brings us to our first problem…we’re pushing the wrong acts. I just read a fascinating article about Groupon in the "Wall Street Journal".  And […]

Bob – You’re 100% on Laura Nyro. She demands something of the listener; respectful attention to who she is and appreciation for her integrity and risks she takes without thinking about how it may look to others.  Nothing about Laura is "off the rack!" Artists who are totally in their own skins are rare indeed […]