Carly, George, and Dan are joined by Berklee College of Music student Adam Saah. Adam recently wrote two articles on the B-Certification process (To "B" or Not To "B" and To Care More) and has been helping GHStrategic (George's consulting firm) become B-certified. The group discusses what that process has been like and how ethics can be a competitive advantage.
Comedians' works are streamed and broadcast across Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, SiriusXM, and more. However, unlike music where royalties are paid for two copyrights (composition and master recording), Comedians have only ever been paid royalties on the recording of their performance, not on the underlying literary work (equivalent of a composition). Jeff Price, founder of Word Collections and previous founder of Tunecore, Audiam, and more is setting out to fix that by helping comedians license and collect royalties owed to them for their unlicensed literary works.
Learn more about Word Collections: https://www.wordcollections.com
Follow Jeff Price's blog: https://medium.com/@JPriceOfMusic
Dan, George, and Carly talk about what life post-COVID may look like. Will conferences stay virtual? What about livestreams and concerts? Is it finally VR’s time to shine?
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Dan, Carly, and George talk about what it means to be an industry plant, if that matters, and how it impacts people’s perception of your talent or art. They also touch on the complexity of separating great art from bad people, and what it means to be privileged. George learns about papayas.
Full show notes: https://www.entrepreneurshipandart.com
Mat Dryhurst joins George, Carly and Dan this week to answer all sorts of important questions. Is New Zealand the best place to live? Are we living in a sim? Is post-modernism the metaverse? They also talk about the future of Web 3.0, the major flaw of pay-per-stream models, and the similarities between NFTs, the music industry, the art world, venture capitalists, and sex work.
Misogyny is everywhere, including the E&A community. Carly, George, and Dan devote some of this episode to explore a recent experience Carly endured, compounded by the disappearance and murder of Sarah Everard, and what can be done to prevent it from happening in the future to create safe spaces for women. They’re also saying goodbye to Slack. Carly has a new podcast (don’t worry, she will not be leaving E&A).
In true George, Dan and Carly fashion, things get started with the smell of Scholastic book fairs and taxi cabs (aka Carly’s new favorite adjective: redolent), before diving in to data. The three get into how the new Apple updates will impact data collection, privacy, and the customization of different tools, and what this means for both companies and consumers. Data leads to NFTs, the Most Passionate Percentile, and marketing theatre. Dan makes a sandwich.
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George, Dan and Carly discuss the much-discussed Phoebe Bridgers guitar smash on SNL and the different standards women and men are held to in the music industry. They also get into Sony’s purchase of AWAL and, while unsurprising, what it means for musicians and the publishing space.
Read the show notes: www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/phoebe-bridgers-and-sonys-acquisition-of-awal
George, Dan and Carly talk about how the rebellious nature of movements like Occupy Wall Street led to the GameStop trading frenzy. The three also share their first impressions of Clubhouse and talk through how they intend to use it — in real time! Some other exciting announcements are made like the new Female Founders branch that Carly will be spearheading.
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George, Dan, and Carly talk about why Spotify may never make a profit with their business model, how smart contracts could be the key to social media moderation at scale, and the importance of imbuing ethics into your business proactively versus reactively. Carly forgets how many weeks are in a year.
Read the show notes: www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/keytars-spotifys-big-bet-and-value-statements
Carly, Dan and George look back at the year and have compiled their collective top three things for different categories. If you ask George, which no one did, 2020 was the year of reflection, of getting to it, of George’s confusion, of not making much money, of pleasure, of notebooks, of sourdough, of the ‘gram, of disintermediation, a year like no other, of Zoom, of joy, the year TV and movies really came into their own, of consistency as a KPI, of One Direction, the year we learned that rules are meant to be broken, the year people loved the internet, of pour over coffee, and—drumroll please for Dan’s contribution—the year of the rundle. (You’re welcome, Josef)
Read the show notes: https://www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/our-top-three-things-of-2020
Carly’s back and migraine-free for E&A’s 30th episode! In this episode, Dan, Carly and George debate the merits of working for startups vs more established companies, what employee retention rates mean for a company’s culture and bottom line, and how the career path trajectory has evolved over time. They also get into the complicated world of unicorn companies, VC funding and useful idiots.
Read the show notes: www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/ethical-leadership-and-useful-idiots
While artists and creators should always be searching for organic, non-paid methods of reaching new audiences, paid advertising is a reliable way to put your art in front of a large audience. In order to reap long-term rewards from these ads, artists need to go a step further in strategizing how to use advertising to build a passionate audience.
This episode covers where to advertise, who to advertise to, what type of content to use in your advertisements, and how to measure your ads,
Read the article here: https://www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/advertising-for-creatives-pt-1-building-awareness
Peter Lockhart takes Carly’s place and does a dang good job! He speaks with Dan and George about the importance of preserving music as a crucial part of our history and his own career trajectory that has included everything from, but not limited to: Wolfgang’s Vault, Morocco, Biden (yes, the Joe Biden), and now Erroll Garner. The three also discuss the importance of artists owning their music and retaining creative control, and the difference between marketing music versus other products.
Click here to read the show notes: www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/preserving-music-and-erroll-garners-legacy-with-peter-lockhart
Dan, Carly and George get funky in this episode as they delve into mental health, how to be more zen, George’s trough of despair which he has gotten mathematical with, and the importance of getting closer to your customers. They also share their first guest article and announce the next book club book!
Join the book club: https://www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/ea-book-club-range-by-david-epstein
George reads a distilled version of his latest article Eating Your Own Dog Food and Scratching Your Own Itch. Features the song “Skeletons in My Closet” by Berklee student and artist, Maya Wagner - and, yes, George paid for it and licensed it all through RAIDAR, and, in so doing, scratched my own itch and ate my own dog food.
Read the full article here: https://www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/eating-your-own-dog-food-and-scratching-your-own-itch
Dan, Carly and George share some of their favorite, or at least most watched, movies, and talk about what a Trump media company (heaven forbid) may look like. Carly breaks her creative block, George licenses his first song from RAIDAR, and Dan shares advertising tips for creatives. For the first time ever, there is an overlap in the three things too, and it’s a very well-deserved double mention.
Dan, Carly and George talk about the convergent thinking that happens when artistic and technical genius meet, the difference between pivots and random acts of “improvement,” the unlikely rise of Crocs in the fashion world, and the different distribution models offered to musicians. They also talk about how to be your own hype person and share some of their favorite instrumental soundtracks.
Read the show notes: https://www.entrepreneurshipandart.com/blog/convergent-thinking-and-random-acts-of-improvement