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Video: Why Your Web Startup Will Likely Fail
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HypeBot
After seeing The Social Network, some people may have gotten the idea that web startups are easy. It's just a matter of going viral and being really smart. Add in a nice write-up on TechCrunch and soon you're on your way to being a millionaire. Course, things aren't that simple. This short, but funny video highlights some of the flawed thinking behind those who think they want to create a web startup and why it isn't as easy as they ...
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3 Familar Case Studies on the New Music Business
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HypeBot
Time Magazine has conducted a few interviews with David Kuskek at Berklee College of Music. The result is three short case studies on the new music industry. They're familiar stories, but it's nice to see them told. Reporter Jacob Templin has done a great job at putting these pieces together. If extended out, they could make a compelling documentary. It's a reminder that there are still many stories to be told that people don't know. Many of the changes in ...
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Bruce Springsteen: The Promise 3 CD/3 DVD Box Set
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JamBase
INCLUDES REMASTERED ALBUM, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN STUDIO & LIVE FOOTAGE, 80-PAGE NOTEBOOK, 21 PREVIOUSLY-UNRELEASED SONGS, AND FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY On November 16, Columbia records will release The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, a 3 CD/3 DVD box set chronicling the making of Bruce Springsteen's landmark 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. Media contents are packaged within an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen's original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording ...
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Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans
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Jeff Abraham
Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans As Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again New Bing Crosby CD & DVD Releases Set For November 9th From Collectors' Choice Music and Infinity Entertainment Group The Crosby Christmas Sessions (CD) & Bing Sings the Great American Songbook (CD) The Television Specials: Volume 2—The Christmas Specials (DVD) Once again, the Bing Crosby Archive digs deep into the vault to release a treasure trove of rare and unreleased material guaranteed to satisfy ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video clips featuring trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet, who will be in St. Louis on Saturday, November 13 to perform at the 560 Music Center under the auspices of New Music Circle. Given that Smith, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff all are long-established, well-respected performers in the field of creative improvised music, and pianist Vijay Iyer is one of the most talked-about ...
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Weekend Extra: Lagniappe from Art Farmer
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
A year ago almost to the day, a Rifftides post called “The Art Of Art Farmer" featured three videos from Farmer's 1982 concert at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. It also had some of my musings on the great trumpeter and flugelhornist. Two of the videos were later disabled by those mysterious internet forces always patrolling in search of clips to take down for real or imagined violations. Recently, other forces—equally mysterious—restored the clips to YouTube, and now they ...
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Seth Godin: Why Artists Think It's Safer to Fail Small
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HypeBot
Seth Godin gives a speech on how artists sabotage their work. They follow the pattern and attempt to fail small. Why? Their lizard brain tells them to; it's the resistance. The thing that tells them to make it so they don't end up a failure, starving, or worse, dead. At the last minute, most artists will take a half step back and take that compelling elements out of their music because it's safer to fail small. The resistance causes them ...
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