Tag: entrepreneurship in music

  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Diggers Factory

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Diggers Factory

        Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 013     DIGGERS FACTORY Founder Alexis Castiel Diggers Factory is an online vinyl pre-order and production service built like a crowdfunding platform and with an international network of digital “crate-diggers” to back it up. Founder Alexis Castiel actually calls it “a community platform,” as it offers fans and professionals a chance to work…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Mideast Tunes

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Mideast Tunes

        Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 012     MIDEAST TUNES Founder Esra’a Al-Shafei We want our humanity and our futures in our own hands and we use the internet and other forms of technology to fight for those rights.  — Esra’a Al-Shafei Mideast Tunes is a music streaming platform promoting social change and cultural dialogue by promoting the…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Songtradr

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Songtradr

    Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 011      SONGTRADR CEO & Founder Paul Wiltshire Songtradr is a brand new marketplace platform for trading and licensing music rights. They only officially launched in March and are working to connect artists, labels, and rights-holders directly with production libraries and talent buyers across industries in a clean and simplified way. They’ve removed the…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Tom Tom Magazine

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Tom Tom Magazine

          Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 010 TOM TOM MAGAZINE Founder and Publisher Mindy Seegal Abovitz Tom Tom is, to the best of my knowledge, the only print magazine in the world focusing solely on women drummers and female drumming culture. It was founded in Brooklyn in 2009, and somehow in this age of dying…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Gramovox

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Gramovox

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 008        GRAMOVOX Co-Founder and CEO, Pavan Bapu Gramovox is an American nostalgia lifestyle brand born, based, and built in Chicago, Illinois, that reimagines vintage design with modern technology. Their debut product is the wireless Bluetooth Gramophone. Its bold design and vintage sound are inspired by the 1920s Magnavox…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Third Side Music

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Third Side Music

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 007        THIRD SIDE MUSIC Founder, A&R, and VP Finance Jeff Waye Splitting his time between Los Angeles and Montréal, Jeff Waye started Third Side Music (TSM) after years of running the famed independent electronic music label, Ninja Tune. Third Side Music is now celebrating its tenth year and…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: ENVELOP

    Entrepreneurship in Music: ENVELOP

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 006        ENVELOP Co-Founder, Christopher Willits, with help from Alingo Loh ENVELOP is both an immersive media space in San Francisco (featuring 28.4 channels of audio, HD video projection and synchronized LED lighting) and a software toolkit that will provide listeners with a next-level experience of music and give…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Muzeek

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Muzeek

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 005        MUZEEK Co-Founder/Managing Director, Danny Fiorentini Sometimes the only difference between a locally-unknown band and a nationally-recognized band is the quality of shows they’re playing. Streamlining and professionalizing the booking process, and being wholly available to live opportunities is just the beginning. Building a better band…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: LANDR

    Entrepreneurship in Music: LANDR

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 004        LANDR Founder, Justin Evans Landr is computerized track-by-track mastering. The team that built MixGenius years ago is back with a new identity and a bold new take on audio with a self-learning algorithmic program that works off of an enormous bank of references, and is trained to…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: Hum

    Entrepreneurship in Music: Hum

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 003        Hum Co-founder and Designer Aaron Shekey Hum is the simple-to-use, intuitive, and aesthetically brilliant app that is currently taking the entire songwriting (or “song-jotting”) world by storm. If you’re an urban-dwelling songwriter, perpetually on the go, and can’t sit still on your commute without those inspiration…

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