For a moment I also thought that Australian Chess Grandmaster Ian Rogers decided to take on Internet business after his premature retirement from competitive chess. But after seeing the photo, I realized that TechCrunch tricked us, chess addicts.
Here's what this is all about: "Ian Rogers, the...
Professional boxer and business man Winky Wright took the time out to talk to the.LIFE Files from his 7,000 + square foot home in St. Petersburg, Florida. It’s not all boxing when it comes to...
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Digital Daily this morning is running a report on how Itunes has now killed off the music business, First it was piracy, then it was bittorrent, then it was P2P, then it was Microsoft, then it was DRM, then it was something else. The music industry excels at putting the blame on everything around them, other than themselves.
It is a sad state of affairs when an entire industry needs to blame someone else for their current woes, facing reality is one of the hallmarks of a good business, a good manager, and a good leader. They know the issue is internal, and they come up with a good plan on how to fix the problem. They learn to move with the ebb and flow of how customers do things, and they come up with ways to profit from where business is going.
They do not whine, they do not point fingers, they do take action.
Many people have told the music industry in one form or another than the way to deal with the new world of music is to go on line, they were saying this as far back as 1999.
SellaBand.com — By deferring the cost and talent of scouting to a crowd of music lovers, SellaBand puts powerful marketing and production tools into the hands of those with a personal interest in the music. It
??s one of several examples of crowdfunding — and it could change how the music business is organized.
I really hope this succeeds.
But if it does, some BMG/UMG/RIAA-esque organization will just buy it out.
The real question, is that can an investment based on pure opinion, not numbers, yield a return?
Younger brother Pusha T says, “I don’t like hip-hop no more and I don’t like the music business. No ethics, no code, no morals. It’s worse than drug dealing. No one works on...
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In a post on a message board, Patrick seemed very distraught -- tired of the pressure, of fame, of having to craft a personae. As such, he has announced his last show will be in November of this year, citing a need to do something else.
