Comments on: Music and Tech Recap – January 2010 Edition http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2010/02/music-and-tech-recap-%e2%80%93-january-2010-edition/ save the music - not the industry. Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gabriel Nijmeh http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2010/02/music-and-tech-recap-%e2%80%93-january-2010-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-7075 Gabriel Nijmeh Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:08:30 +0000 http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/?p=2970#comment-7075 Hey Amy... Thanks for your comments! Investments in the music tech space has always scared away a lot of investors. Before even writing one line of code, you have immediate royalty costs (beyond your control) you have to contend with. And there is also the general legal hangover that lingers making investors extremely scared to invest. Can't blame them, you have to find an competitive edge or two that tips the favor of success your way. I don't think we can really count on one hand a major success. Startups are already challenging and most fail, but in this space, the failure seems to be even greater. What we are seeing is more investments in music services and less so in music downloads/streaming. There will certainly be niche/smaller players but will they have the legs to stand on their own long-term? I think the big guys like Apple, Spotify, MOG may eventually probably sew this part of the market up. I think we are on the right track. There are a lot of passionate and creative innovators. Give them enough runway, and they really could make it fly. Let's see what the next 5-10 years brings. Hey Amy…

Thanks for your comments!

Investments in the music tech space has always scared away a lot of investors. Before even writing one line of code, you have immediate royalty costs (beyond your control) you have to contend with. And there is also the general legal hangover that lingers making investors extremely scared to invest. Can’t blame them, you have to find an competitive edge or two that tips the favor of success your way. I don’t think we can really count on one hand a major success. Startups are already challenging and most fail, but in this space, the failure seems to be even greater.

What we are seeing is more investments in music services and less so in music downloads/streaming. There will certainly be niche/smaller players but will they have the legs to stand on their own long-term? I think the big guys like Apple, Spotify, MOG may eventually probably sew this part of the market up.

I think we are on the right track. There are a lot of passionate and creative innovators. Give them enough runway, and they really could make it fly. Let’s see what the next 5-10 years brings.

]]> By: Amy http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2010/02/music-and-tech-recap-%e2%80%93-january-2010-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-6994 Amy Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:17:12 +0000 http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/?p=2970#comment-6994 It's great to see all those music tech startups getting funding. It wasn't too long ago that all the tech blogs ran headlines like 'Music is Black Plague to Venture Capitalists.' Add to that the context of the still shaky economy in the US and elsewhere and I'd say this is a very good sign for music-loving entrepreneurs. The soundcloud/HypeMachine partnership sounds pretty cool and is something I've been meaning to check out further. Who knows, maybe Creative Deconstruction could use some real independent music... It’s great to see all those music tech startups getting funding. It wasn’t too long ago that all the tech blogs ran headlines like ‘Music is Black Plague to Venture Capitalists.’ Add to that the context of the still shaky economy in the US and elsewhere and I’d say this is a very good sign for music-loving entrepreneurs.

The soundcloud/HypeMachine partnership sounds pretty cool and is something I’ve been meaning to check out further. Who knows, maybe Creative Deconstruction could use some real independent music…

]]> By: Gabriel Nijmeh http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2010/02/music-and-tech-recap-%e2%80%93-january-2010-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-4968 Gabriel Nijmeh Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:22:08 +0000 http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/?p=2970#comment-4968 Well, the year certainly has gotten off to a quick start on the funding side. I was surprised to see that January 2010 investments already matches all investments made in the first three months of 2009. The Guevara funding is very interesting. One one hand we hear that labels are weary of ad-supported models, yet they are putting their money (and/or blessing) behind Guevara and Free All Music. Fot the sake of other start-ups, it might just be good thing if these two start-ups can genuinely succeed but I'm not really sure they will. I hope they prove me wrong. As for the Soundcloud/Hype machine partnership... that's great to see. Soundcloud really seems to get it seeing how developer and artist friendly they are. We already see some amazing music APIs enabling developers to do some cool integrations/mash-ups. Hopefully we start seeing even tighter integration between different but complementary music services that won't require technical expertise to implement. Ideally helping labels/artist better manage their online presence/distribution/marketing etc. Well, the year certainly has gotten off to a quick start on the funding side. I was surprised to see that January 2010 investments already matches all investments made in the first three months of 2009.

The Guevara funding is very interesting. One one hand we hear that labels are weary of ad-supported models, yet they are putting their money (and/or blessing) behind Guevara and Free All Music. Fot the sake of other start-ups, it might just be good thing if these two start-ups can genuinely succeed but I’m not really sure they will. I hope they prove me wrong.

As for the Soundcloud/Hype machine partnership… that’s great to see. Soundcloud really seems to get it seeing how developer and artist friendly they are. We already see some amazing music APIs enabling developers to do some cool integrations/mash-ups. Hopefully we start seeing even tighter integration between different but complementary music services that won’t require technical expertise to implement. Ideally helping labels/artist better manage their online presence/distribution/marketing etc.

]]> By: refe http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/2010/02/music-and-tech-recap-%e2%80%93-january-2010-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-4954 refe Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:27 +0000 http://www.creativedeconstruction.com/?p=2970#comment-4954 It's great to see all those music tech startups getting funding. It wasn't too long ago that all the tech blogs ran headlines like 'Music is Black Plague to Venture Capitalists.' Add to that the context of the still shaky economy in the US and elsewhere and I'd say this is a very good sign for music-loving entrepreneurs. The soundcloud/HypeMachine partnership sounds pretty cool and is something I've been meaning to check out further. Who knows, maybe Creative Deconstruction could use some real independent music... It’s great to see all those music tech startups getting funding. It wasn’t too long ago that all the tech blogs ran headlines like ‘Music is Black Plague to Venture Capitalists.’ Add to that the context of the still shaky economy in the US and elsewhere and I’d say this is a very good sign for music-loving entrepreneurs.

The soundcloud/HypeMachine partnership sounds pretty cool and is something I’ve been meaning to check out further. Who knows, maybe Creative Deconstruction could use some real independent music…

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