A VC writes on music businesses
Distribution technology and services are just ways of helping someone else sell their valuable assets, and are certainly not a basis for entrepreneurship. It's the control over the assets themselves, and not the pipes to deliver them, that will drive shareholder value in new music companies. The online distribution of music is not about technology. More than enough technology exists to produce any consumer music service you could possibly imagine. The game will really get interesting when the very heart of the music industry--the creation and sourcing of music--is challenged.
It sounds like he is asking for a startup pitch focused on new ways of fleecing musicians, but maybe he just didn't express himself well.
Wednesday 5 June 2002
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