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by earbitscom 12y ago
About 80k monthly uniques, streaming 2.7 million songs this month.
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by earbitscom 12y ago
If you're referring to mobile, yeah, we took too long to get email login setup. Chock it up to our cash-strappedness.
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by earbitscom 12y ago
That's right, J. Truth is, with our results, we'd have had the funding we needed in any other space. Music startups are held to a higher standard.
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by earbitscom 12y ago
Thanks, Dueprocess. We most certainly did, which is abundantly clear by the massive number of emails in my inbox from our artists right now. Heart wrenching.
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by earbitscom 12y ago
Thanks, Chanux. If you want to buy $3M worth of Groovies, we should talk. ;) haha
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by earbitscom 12y ago
Indeed, Jonathan. Our big problem was needing to satisfy two sides of a marketplace with half the resources of most startups. I mean, we certainly had other issues, but it was definitely this lack of expected features (due to low tech res
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by earbitscom 12y ago
Thanks, Arram. We need to find our wave to ride. ;)
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by earbitscom 12y ago
Mmmm...we had 3 million people hit our website in the past few years. It wasn't a problem of getting customers, we needed to keep them better.
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by earbitscom 12y ago
Take into consideration that most APIs don't contain primarily data and information about trademarked characters and copyrighted works. They are going to err on the side of being very cautious when opening up an API full of their popu
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by earbitscom 13y ago
I have been using this service since it was launched and it is one of the highlights of my week. Every week, my Grandmother answers random questions and shares some part of her life story with me. A few weeks ago, the question was "W
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by earbitscom 13y ago
For this comparison to be effective you have to measure their net worth, inclusive of their time available to earn an income (which has value), prior to making the movie. If they "spend" that time on being a cameraman in order to
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by earbitscom 13y ago
It says that early on and for extended periods these things cause heart disease and cancer, which would be bad for somebody over the course of 65 years, and the amount of protein is unnecessary. But when you get older and your body starts
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by earbitscom 13y ago
You're talking about the difference in how you feel in the short term, in an uncontrolled "experiment", where you started exercising at the same time, versus an increase in long term disease. Of course you're going to f
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Yeah, I tell people all of the time that I am a non-technical founder. I often do it to explain to other non-technical founders what they can be doing prior to finding a co-founder, because we had achieved a ton before we ever did.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
I started doing this after seeing a guy selling widgets for it on Shark Tank. Though, I followed the shark's advice and just used a post it. But as someone whose laptop is pointed at their bed, this seemed like a necessity.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
I would second webright's comment about raising too early. One other mistake we made was underestimating the number of investors we needed to speak with in order to create momentum and a competitive environment. You definitely do wan
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by earbitscom 13y ago
That is awesome. It blows my mind how stupid humans can be about their and animals' role in the world.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
It takes money to build things at scale. Our company has an awesome mission to empower artists by providing them with high quality exposure. Nobody is donating millions of dollars for us to do this out of the kindness of their hearts and th
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by earbitscom 13y ago
As someone who had no idea who this was based solely on a username, it absolutely came off as a ploy to get blog clicks by trolling.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
This article is just terrible. For absolute certain the entrepreneurial life is an emotionally challenging one and some investors make out better than their founders, but if the difference between a poorly paid coal miner and a funded foun
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by earbitscom 13y ago
In that first graph is says X 4 (Artist's Royalty Rate). So it is based on market share, and some rate, which they would have simply said is Y had it been the same for everyone.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Yeah, there is also a bit of this at play when Spotify talks about what they pay artists. They say they pay an average of 70% of revenues, but they don't explain that major labels get way better rates per stream, not just because of t
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Not only would that be better, but it would be better if it was usage based billing. Why does someone who listens to 10 hours a month pay the same rate as someone who listens to 140 hours? Great analysis, btw.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Yeah, I don't condone it. I was just saying that if there were any reason to share less information it's when you're not a good bet.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
x-post from comments: There is an analogy here but it's not that you're playing poker against investors. As a startup founder, you are the house. You are trying to attract players who will place a bet. If your startup is a good
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by earbitscom 13y ago
You really have no idea what you're talking about. Condoms break. Relationships end. Men abandon their children. Husbands become alcoholics and start hitting people. A million things can lead to a woman being single with child, and
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by earbitscom 13y ago
That you would put single mothers on welfare in a group with drug dealers and muggers, and claim that what this guy does is a lot of work, merits appreciation, and makes him better, is disgusting. I'm going to stop there because I don
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Who said they pay them the same way? Spotify has never said that and it is most certainly not true. They carefully worded that they pay roughly 70% to rights holders, and that it is their percentage of the total streams, times their rate.
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Sort of, yes. He incentivized users to upload popular content for credit on their service knowing full well that the popular content was generally copyrighted. There is a legal difference between letting users upload files for storage, or
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by earbitscom 13y ago
Exchanging value is different than taking value. What is this guy giving to the websites whose ads he's replacing?

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