(Disclosure: I’ve been a user since [almost] day one and have contributed to the Tunecore blog) Here's my comment (#209) on the original thread: I would love

(Disclosure: I’ve been a user since [almost] day one and have contributed to the Tunecore blog) Here's my comment (#209) on the original thread: I would love it if we could start hearing about more businesses that are growing out of existing industries that are leveraging the Net (rather than SV startups leveraging the Net to get into existing industries). Another example in the music domain would be SonicBids. Concentrating so much on SV just leads to too much irony: TuneCore is probably THE most revolutionary music-focused web service (esp in terms of business model innovation) and they’ve been pulling in real revenue with a real, sustainable revenue stream that solves extreme problems for its customers for years. To top it off, they have probably THE most intelligent strategic partnership (w/ Guitar Center) of any web-based business. I agree that a) there’s only so many hours in the day, b) the Valley is the most important place in the world for software innovation, and c) much of the work TechCrunch does is very valuable, but it would be nice to see more “worldly” coverage [for lack of a better term].