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Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular mu

by scribu 10y ago

Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.

mathgeek 10y ago
Which translates to "after years of work to establish a brand, this founder turned that brand into a successful business opportunity." A great story and excellent business sense, to be sure. The "10 months" part is typical headline speak.
- cantbecool 10y ago
  Right, and it doesn't hurt to say he worked for Google either.
  - dwightgunning 10y ago
    On the contrary, I thought this was a strange and irrelevant fact to include in the article. There's no indication that his role at Google had any bearing on the success of the business. Perhaps if he'd worked on Google Music (or other music related area of the business) or the referenced exposure to "top brass" opened some doors... but it seems unlikely this is the case. There's certainly correlation between Google employees and successful initiatives... but not much beyond that.
    - edoceo 10y ago
      After working at BigCo and saving steady pay while nurturing your startup at night for a few years. You have a visibility to traction. And a cushion against failure. So you can take the "risk". It's easy to take a "risk" when it's not really there. It's not like this founder started with $100 and made an ongoing business employing a few others. Started on second, scored on as RBI and media talks about your Grand Slam.
      - nickpsecurity 10y ago
        That's actually a really good point if it's what he did. The common approach to employment is placing it safe using one job's revenue to get to higher-paying one. Or even savings. Many startups or bootstrappers go all in with different incentives and cost structure. Plus time available. So, it's worth learning things like that in these stories in tracing the bigger picture of how the success story played out with what ingredients that might work next time.
- Delmania 10y ago
  It's almost like creating a successful business is something that takes a few years of focused effort as opposed to something you can do on the side.
  - jason-grishkoff 10y ago
    Almost. I built Indie Shuffle on the side, so it applies for business #1 :) I think building a business is always going to take a lot of focused effort. That said, I also think that getting an early start -- doing it on the side -- is a much smarter idea than quitting everything you have and launching into it head on.
trymas 10y ago
It reminds me of a story how Red Digital Cinema Camera Company was born. Few years ago I've found a motivational article that everyone can make a successful business out of their garage even in the field of high end technology. I googled RED camera's founders name - multi-billionaire founder of Oakley. Probably his garage looked like a high tech version of Jay Leno's car garage and not like the Jobs' and Wozniak's garage. Dude have been building his blog business/image/trademark for many years and successfully capitalised on that. Kudos to him. We do not say that Apple successfully reached 1 million dollars in phone sales in 10 minutes. No - it took them 30 years to reach that point.

by scribu 10y ago

Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.

mathgeek 10y ago

Which translates to "after years of work to establish a brand, this founder turned that brand into a successful business opportunity." A great story and excellent business sense, to be sure. The "10 months" part is typical headline speak.

cantbecool 10y ago
Right, and it doesn't hurt to say he worked for Google either.
- dwightgunning 10y ago
  On the contrary, I thought this was a strange and irrelevant fact to include in the article. There's no indication that his role at Google had any bearing on the success of the business. Perhaps if he'd worked on Google Music (or other music related area of the business) or the referenced exposure to "top brass" opened some doors... but it seems unlikely this is the case. There's certainly correlation between Google employees and successful initiatives... but not much beyond that.
  - edoceo 10y ago
    After working at BigCo and saving steady pay while nurturing your startup at night for a few years. You have a visibility to traction. And a cushion against failure. So you can take the "risk". It's easy to take a "risk" when it's not really there. It's not like this founder started with $100 and made an ongoing business employing a few others. Started on second, scored on as RBI and media talks about your Grand Slam.
    - nickpsecurity 10y ago
      That's actually a really good point if it's what he did. The common approach to employment is placing it safe using one job's revenue to get to higher-paying one. Or even savings. Many startups or bootstrappers go all in with different incentives and cost structure. Plus time available. So, it's worth learning things like that in these stories in tracing the bigger picture of how the success story played out with what ingredients that might work next time.
Delmania 10y ago
It's almost like creating a successful business is something that takes a few years of focused effort as opposed to something you can do on the side.
- jason-grishkoff 10y ago
  Almost. I built Indie Shuffle on the side, so it applies for business #1 :) I think building a business is always going to take a lot of focused effort. That said, I also think that getting an early start -- doing it on the side -- is a much smarter idea than quitting everything you have and launching into it head on.

trymas 10y ago

It reminds me of a story how Red Digital Cinema Camera Company was born. Few years ago I've found a motivational article that everyone can make a successful business out of their garage even in the field of high end technology. I googled RED camera's founders name - multi-billionaire founder of Oakley. Probably his garage looked like a high tech version of Jay Leno's car garage and not like the Jobs' and Wozniak's garage. Dude have been building his blog business/image/trademark for many years and successfully capitalised on that. Kudos to him. We do not say that Apple successfully reached 1 million dollars in phone sales in 10 minutes. No - it took them 30 years to reach that point.