Tag: startup
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Are you at ADE? Let’s meet!
Back in 2020, I was planning to head out to Amsterdam for a live streaming gig, and, well, you know what happened 🦠. This year I’ll be back out for Amsterdam Dance Event from the 19th to the 21st of October, taking meetings for Aux. If you’re heading to the conference, drop me an email…
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My StreamOn Project Has Been Acquired
StreamOn started as a live stream forwarding service back in 2019. Fast forward to 2020 the mission expanded. Our goal became helping streamers at any skill level go live, increase their live stream quality, reach new fans and make money. Over four successive beta releases StreamOn expanded to include a range of browser based streamer…
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7 Startups Challenge
One thing that you learn by cycling around the world is how many hours there are in a day. As I was sit in the saddle for 8, 10, 12 hours, the world passing by pedal turn by pedal turn, I came to the realisation: I can really do anything. Anything, given the time. I’ve…
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Audio on Producthunt
Audio launched on Producthunt this morning! Upvote and comment appreciated!
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iTunes is Dead: Introducing Audio for Mac on Kickstarter
A few weeks ago at the WWDC conference, Apple announced they are killing iTunes in the next release of MacOS Catalina. If you’re a serious music collector or industry professional like me you’ve long seen the demise of iTunes coming. At the same time, the independent software community around the Mac and iOS devices has…
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Digital Nomad Anxiety – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 104 – 10 April 2019
– ODO- 13159 – 13198km – Location- Pokhara, Nepal – Weather- 18-19 Overcast with showers The feeling of coming inside after camping out for several weeks is luxurious. I start by starting a podcast on my phone, laying out my bags and dismantling all of my kit into piles on the floor. One pile for…
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Back in the Music Tech Game w/ SendMusic
TL;DR Kemal, Pal and I launched SendMusic – Check it out… and subscribe to our newsletter. I was sitting alone in a shed in the back of my mums garden in our small village in rural Norfolk. Salvaged iBook in front of me on the desk. Surrounded by computer parts, bits of old bike…
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Investor Updates, Hyperpersonal Communication and Telegraphy
TL;DR Vote up my latest project on Betalist, ta! Technology today is isolating right? Everyone is sitting on their phones swiping and scrolling. Headphones on. Avoiding eye contact. Wrong. Technology gives us more ways to communicate, more people to speak with, from more cities, cultures and countries than has ever been possible in history. Not personal.…
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NY:LON Connect and Music Startup Positivity. – The New Wave of Inventive Music Startups
A couple of weeks ago I was on a panel discussing investment in music startups as part of MusicAlly’s NY:LON Connect event as Reed Smith in London. A few months before at the BBC Future of Music conference Rorri Keflan-Jones painted a picture of a startups disappearing left right and venture. This panel took a…
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Moving On From Chew
It started back in 2011. I was sitting in the Google office, just off Tottenham Court Road, getting a briefing on the upcoming changes to YouTube. Searching through a bunch of names and URLs, I registered chew.fm — a broader name for eatbass.com – the site I started earlier that year to feed its users a “tasty…