Today I posted an interview in TechCrunch that I did with Northzone general partner PJ Parson at the SLUSH conference in Helsinki. We talked about the core investment thesis that has guided him for 20 years, how he went from running a fish distribution to running a VC firm, his best practices for effective board […]
Category Archives: Music
What Spotify can learn from Tencent Music
Read my post on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/05/what-spotify-can-learn-from-tencent-music/
The war over music copyrights
Read my post on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/30/the-war-over-music-copyrights/
Spotify starts signing artists directly
The big news today is that Spotify is offering advances (in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range) to select indie musicians and talent managers in exchange for licensing their music directly to Spotify. By direct licensing, they will get up to a 50% share of royalties plus retain all rights to their work. (link) The […]
Business Models for Media Companies
How do media companies make money? There are 5 overarching business models to generate revenue from content your company creates: 1) transactions, 2) subscriptions, 3) licensing, 4) content marketing, and 5) advertising. Let’s review. 1. Transactions Transactional business models are the simplest way to make money off content: slap a price tag on whatever you create […]