[SiliconBeach] Re: Music Venture

2011-02-18 Thread rc
Hi Edwin How will you differentiate your service from Bandcamp? Rebecca On Feb 18, 5:39 pm, Edwin Onggo wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Hope everyone is well. > > My name's Edwin, I've had a passion for innovation and > entrepreneurship for many years now but decided to come out of my > dark, lonely sh

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Music Venture

2011-02-18 Thread Matt Moore
Edwin If you do a search of the Silicon Beach list for "music" then there are 89 results. Some of these discuss potential products that may be similar to your idea. http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/search?q=music The question I would have for you is: How well do you understa

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Music Venture

2011-02-18 Thread Rob James
I've been listening to the recent posts on Music related startups quite interestingly over the last few days. There are incredible opportunities in this space! I actually thought your post was quite positive Matthew :-) First the disclaimer - you mention http://www.posse.com/ well I work for t

[SiliconBeach] Re: Music Venture

2011-02-18 Thread Matthew Ho
I'm not really sure how this is different to MySpace or what MySpace could do. I think the key is to understand that music is an infinite good. So you need to build finite goods around it - such as concerts, merchandise, etc... Its very difficult to monetise music because the consumer isn't used

[SiliconBeach] Re: Melbourne Silicon Beach Drinks

2011-02-18 Thread Humphrey
Where the "Like" button on Google Groups? What with Rate this Post? :) Great work Kate! On Feb 18, 2:04 pm, Kate Kendall wrote: > Hey guys, > > A few of us in Melbourne have started Silicon Beach Drinks here again. Like > Sydney, we're organising through Meetup.com. > > You can join the group her